Steelie Mike
07-21-2006, 04:40 PM
...you got low holed by a guide?
Yesterday a good friend and I were fishing a run on a SWW river when we past a boat launch. As we went by it we say that a Clack was about to take out. Just below the boat launch there was nice run that I always fish when I am in the area so we stopped and worked out way down. After working my way through the upper portion of the run, my friend Bruce :mad: swung through and “Bang,” fish on. Sweet, after a few head shakes and jumps, the fish was off. Just as he losses the fish here comes a guide with two clients down the run. The clients made a few comments about the fish and then drifted down the stream. I realize as they drift past that I know who the guide is.
Since I was focusing on Bruce’s fish, I was not paying attention to my gear and I ended up loosing a fly. So when I walked back up to the pontoon to grab my chest pack, I noticed he had parked his boat right in the middle of the run that I was fishing, still not forty feet from where Bruce was and twenty feet from where I laid my rod down. [whoopsydaisies!]! He dropped anchor and everything and had his clients cast and swing at fish that they could see in. Now Bruce and I were steaming at this point. They had not only low holed us, but low holed us in a run that was holding fish.
Here was my dilemma. I wanted to say something to him, but did not want to lose my temper in front of his client’s, especially because one was a young boy in front of the boat. What would you have done? I kept quit, but was upset with myself for not doing so. I ended up swinging right next to the boat before he started to move downstream. He then drifted slowly through the tailout.
I have met him and chatted with him about the rivers that he fishes in the past. I even thought about fishing with him. Not anymore.
Yesterday a good friend and I were fishing a run on a SWW river when we past a boat launch. As we went by it we say that a Clack was about to take out. Just below the boat launch there was nice run that I always fish when I am in the area so we stopped and worked out way down. After working my way through the upper portion of the run, my friend Bruce :mad: swung through and “Bang,” fish on. Sweet, after a few head shakes and jumps, the fish was off. Just as he losses the fish here comes a guide with two clients down the run. The clients made a few comments about the fish and then drifted down the stream. I realize as they drift past that I know who the guide is.
Since I was focusing on Bruce’s fish, I was not paying attention to my gear and I ended up loosing a fly. So when I walked back up to the pontoon to grab my chest pack, I noticed he had parked his boat right in the middle of the run that I was fishing, still not forty feet from where Bruce was and twenty feet from where I laid my rod down. [whoopsydaisies!]! He dropped anchor and everything and had his clients cast and swing at fish that they could see in. Now Bruce and I were steaming at this point. They had not only low holed us, but low holed us in a run that was holding fish.
Here was my dilemma. I wanted to say something to him, but did not want to lose my temper in front of his client’s, especially because one was a young boy in front of the boat. What would you have done? I kept quit, but was upset with myself for not doing so. I ended up swinging right next to the boat before he started to move downstream. He then drifted slowly through the tailout.
I have met him and chatted with him about the rivers that he fishes in the past. I even thought about fishing with him. Not anymore.