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Location: minocqua, wi. | i'd pay a guide to teach me how to do something i haven't done myself or help me approach a big body of water i might be intimidated by (ie: mille lacs, eagle lake, lotw, lake michigan or lake superior), so i'm in the camp with Andy and look for someone who i'd continue to support (via recommendation) and develop a friendship with, so that if i pinged them in the future i would get help down the line.
the guides i've fished with are all guys that are the best friends you could ever want to have in life and also #*^@ good guides with a ton to offer! one guide in particular helped me to get a first fish for the 14-year old son of an important business client. it helped me to bridge a business to friendship gap with a person who's become a lifelong friend and customer. part of that experience was standing under a pontoon awning for about 5 hours waiting out a hellatious storm. if that "guide" wasn't who he is as human and friend, the whole experience would not have happened. a time for money guide would have cancelled ...
the great guides see beyond the fish ...
Edited by jonnysled 7/13/2012 10:57 AM
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Location: minocqua, wi. | sworrall - 7/13/2012 10:26 AM
You do realize this thread is from 2008...
it's a good one tho!! |
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | If you are coming from out of state and I know that you will only be fishing the lake a few times after our trip, I would let you bring a GPS, but if you are a local trip I would not allow it. Think about, many guides have fished many years and countless hours to find some of the spots that we have. Why would we just hand them over to someone so that they could camp on them and burn them for us in the future?
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Location: syracuse indiana | leave it to mike to dig up some old dirt...lol |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | I'm in with Steve
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| If you dont want people fishing your spot, quit guiding! pretty simple really |
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| Depends on where you are fishing and with whom. The community spots that everybody fishes are just that. There are spots (and lakes) that I would not even think about fishing without first making a phone call to the guides who showed them to me. And a GPS? Well, I don't fish with guides to get the exact location of spots, so I wouldn't even consider it unless they suggested it ahead of time.
I keep hearing how there are no secrets anymore... Like %^$& there aren't. |
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