TPW Magazine: Hiring a Fishing Guide
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Beginners and experts alike can experience some of their best fishing days by using a professional fishing guide. That’s what Aquatic education training specialist, Caleb Harris writes, in an article for the digital fishing issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine.
02—The article is written for people who have never hired a guide.
Harris says anglers who have hired guides in the past will also find the article informative. Guides offer expertise and location knowledge and teach new tactics and techniques, he says.
15— I think most people hire a guide so they can become as familiar as possible as quickly as possible with, say, a new technique, or a certain lake, or a river that they’ve never been on. And these guides have incredible experience in the places that they guide, so they can bring people up to speed really fast.
Finding a guide that’s right for you is as easy as joining a fishing club or going online.
22— Guides do best where they have a great deal of experience fishing. You know, they’ll kind of dig in in that area; they’ll be well-involved in different clubs and different social events. And most guides I know meet a lot of their clients through word-of-mouth. So, if a fisherman gets involved with a local club, or talks to people wherever they go fishing – they can often meet a really good guide just by word-of-mouth that way. But, if you’re not in a club, the internet is a great place to start.
Things you need to share with your guide before setting off. That’s tomorrow. Meantime find Caleb Harris’ article on fishing guides at tpwmagazine.com.
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