Fishing Guides Responsibility

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by "W"

This is not true the best of us have bad days and fish don't eat everyday either.
Also guiding is not like buddy fishing your level of experience is a huge factor on the number of fish that hit the cooler that day .
Some days I don't cast a line out

Perhaps this is the case if you limit your target to one species (specks) or one technique (artificials).

But if you are willing to expand your target species (sheepies, drum, flatties, gafftops, bull reds) and methods (soaking bait), you should almost always be able to put your guests on fish.

I let my guides know ahead of time that I'm not an elitist, and I expect to be able to resort to using bait and targeting "nontraditional" species if the day isn't serving up specks or slot reds easily.

I'm a rank amateur, and we almost always bring home a bunch of fish when fishing from a boat in coastal LA. The fishing here is just too good for excuses.

Guides should practice some of these phrases for customers:

Would you like to try for some bull reds?

Would you mind trying some bait?

How do you feel about sheepies?

I know where we can get on the drum.

This is not looking good for specks today, I think we can fill the cooler with gafftops in a spot I know.