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| did you really say experience is over-rated and then compare fishing to basketball/lebron james? wow |
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| I say take the names of all the guides on the lake (you can probably find out a TON by talking to someone in a Muskies Inc. chapter from MN), write them onto pieces of paper, take your luckiest fishing hat, drop them in, shake them up, have a friend pull one out and whoever he/she pulls out is your guide. My point is they are ALL good and you will ALWAYS learn something on the water (given an open mind of course). People are going to have their favorites because maybe that guy hired Lee or Jason, but another guy hired Gregg or Jonesi. "Brand loyalty" essentially. Get a list, check them out on the web, call them if you so choose and base your decision on your own research/communications... Not on what a bunch of guys tell you on the internet.
The other cool thing I liked when we hired a guide on Mille Lacs was that he and several other guides networked all day. Everyone calling everyone to get the latest reports, etc. MY experience is that with the majority (if not all, but I don't pretend to be that naive) of these guides the CLIENT comes first and that each one will bend over backwards to make your trip all the better.
Good luck and remember you simply can't go wrong!!!! |
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| Sweet rant guest, I do hear what your saying,,, but I am onboard with Hammskie on this one. I fished several times with John Hoyer last year and I completely agree that he is of the caliber of some of the other great guides on the pond and metro and a heck of a nice guy. |
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Location: Minnetonka | I agree... Hoyer is the "LeBron James" of Muskie Guiding. :-D
Edited by Hammskie 3/24/2008 12:55 PM
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| esox you have a good point about the networking I have also been out with a few of these guys and the phones dont stop ringing between them. They all seem 2 work as a team since every one is refering to basket ball I will go with the dream team that was cheezy!! kinda hard 2 get in the guideing game with all those guys up there!!! |
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