09-01-2011, 06:46 PM
Good to see that My experiences with some of the guides up there aren't too different from others. I fully understand the amount of cash that is on the line for some of those guys. I have had the pleasure of taking tying classes from a couple of the long time guides and they are class acts. Seems its the younger guys that have issues.
Ill share an experience last fall on one of my favorite riffles. Many will know this spot. Just above where the farm house is at lufkin flats on the opposite side of the river from the farm, there is a good set of side channels that feed into one big channel and then it splits into 3 fingers before coming back into the main channel. If your looking up the river I was fishing the riffle on the far left of the 3 where it splits. At the time it was the shallowest of the 3 channels. Leading into it is 200 yards of flat water that you can see me fishing this riffle the entire time. During a 2 hour stint there was 9 to 10 boats that floated through. All but 2 were courteous and gave me a wide berth. The 2 that didn't though rowed over from the far side to come right over the riffle I was fishing. Both boats had big lodge stickers right on the front. I am not one to hold my
and let both of them know what a busch league move it was. Too which I was informed by one that it wasn't my river.
Just seems like there has been a general loss of respect for others in our fishing community.
Drowing flys, byington is a cluster at best. I could go on for hours about it. The best was this time last fall we roll up around 5 and there were 7 boats waiting to take out. So we line up and wait to take our turn. Well as we are getting ready to back up a nice new pickup pulls past everyone, backs down the middle of the ramp. I was a wee bit hot. So I backed down and blocked him in, climbed out infront of everyone, and tore into him infront of everyone. Asking him if he was some how better than everyone that was waiting since he had world cast on the front of his boat. He was hot, but 3 or 4 or guys took over from where I started and let him know he wasn't welcome on local waters if he wasn't going to be courteous.
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Ill share an experience last fall on one of my favorite riffles. Many will know this spot. Just above where the farm house is at lufkin flats on the opposite side of the river from the farm, there is a good set of side channels that feed into one big channel and then it splits into 3 fingers before coming back into the main channel. If your looking up the river I was fishing the riffle on the far left of the 3 where it splits. At the time it was the shallowest of the 3 channels. Leading into it is 200 yards of flat water that you can see me fishing this riffle the entire time. During a 2 hour stint there was 9 to 10 boats that floated through. All but 2 were courteous and gave me a wide berth. The 2 that didn't though rowed over from the far side to come right over the riffle I was fishing. Both boats had big lodge stickers right on the front. I am not one to hold my
and let both of them know what a busch league move it was. Too which I was informed by one that it wasn't my river. Just seems like there has been a general loss of respect for others in our fishing community.
Drowing flys, byington is a cluster at best. I could go on for hours about it. The best was this time last fall we roll up around 5 and there were 7 boats waiting to take out. So we line up and wait to take our turn. Well as we are getting ready to back up a nice new pickup pulls past everyone, backs down the middle of the ramp. I was a wee bit hot. So I backed down and blocked him in, climbed out infront of everyone, and tore into him infront of everyone. Asking him if he was some how better than everyone that was waiting since he had world cast on the front of his boat. He was hot, but 3 or 4 or guys took over from where I started and let him know he wasn't welcome on local waters if he wasn't going to be courteous.
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