One thing that I have always appreciated in my life is the fact that each day is different. The clients are different, each having unique interests and skill levels, the trips are different and the weather is always a wild card. This week I spent a most enjoyable day bass fishing on one of my favorite ponds. It is always a pleasure to work out of the strip built grand lake canoe. I like to think of it as a piece of fine furniture and it moves very well when I put my paddle in the water. The morning was almost perfectly still with a loon watching us fish along the shore.
Yesterday I had one of those difficult clients that comes around a few times a summer. Hard to work out the arrangements, difficult to please and they assume at every moment that they are being taken. After a huge struggle to work out the details of the trip, “I don’t want to fish on a pond, my wife gets seasick, can you pick me up at the hotel?, no I’ll meet you, no pick me up” at the last minute. Between a cell phone that barely worked and not being listed as a guest at the hotel it was a challenge.
One great thing about being a guide and fishing every day is seeing the differences from one day to the next. Or in today’s case one river to the next. A client was staying in Boothbay and asked if we could do his morning trip from Wiscasset instead of Thomaston. I have not fished that area consistently in years but figured it would be a good chance to see some old familiar territory and see what there were for fish down there.
