wthorpe
Well-known member
Another recent thread on guides sort of devolved into a discussion of rates and tips. Not wanting to hijack that thread, I thought it would be interesting to hear members's responses on why use guides. I use them a lot, although a huge majority of my fishing is without guides.
i use them mainly to do things i cannot realistically do on my own. That can mean several things. Most often it means taking me and my wife or a friend in a drift boat somewhere i cannot realistically wade. Since i dont have a drift boat and likely would wreck it if i did, i need that access for a lot of places including recently the Henry's Fork below Ashton, the Missouri, and the Big Horn. But i also just sign up guides for a particular day a month or three or four in advance on the assumption we will do somehting i dont ordinarily do--fish this river you are not familiar with a quarter mile from the car, or fish that one after walking 3 miles in from the road, etc. I also get exposed to new (to me) techniques as in, "those drakes wont hatch til mid afternoon, so the only game in town for now is streamers." Boom. My friend and i, neither very good with streamers, caught 4-5 each 18-20" browns in a few hours--and then the green drakes did pour off at 3 o'clock.
Who else uses guides for what reason???
i use them mainly to do things i cannot realistically do on my own. That can mean several things. Most often it means taking me and my wife or a friend in a drift boat somewhere i cannot realistically wade. Since i dont have a drift boat and likely would wreck it if i did, i need that access for a lot of places including recently the Henry's Fork below Ashton, the Missouri, and the Big Horn. But i also just sign up guides for a particular day a month or three or four in advance on the assumption we will do somehting i dont ordinarily do--fish this river you are not familiar with a quarter mile from the car, or fish that one after walking 3 miles in from the road, etc. I also get exposed to new (to me) techniques as in, "those drakes wont hatch til mid afternoon, so the only game in town for now is streamers." Boom. My friend and i, neither very good with streamers, caught 4-5 each 18-20" browns in a few hours--and then the green drakes did pour off at 3 o'clock.
Who else uses guides for what reason???