Summer 2012 Guiding

[salmotrutta]

*Guiding offer for Summer 2012 has concluded*

I would like to offer a unique guiding service. I would like to teach as much as is possible to teach in one outing, enough to turn even someone with zero angling experience into a knowledgeable angler.

A knowledgeable angler by my definition can catch fish in known destinations, as well as locate and successfully fish new destinations, and cross over their experience to new species.

How can this be accomplished?

For starters, I learned to fish just 3 years ago. I had to learn everything from scratch. Although with angling, you never stop learning, there were a few key elements to my approach to angling that made all of the difference.

As the saying goes, "there's a fine line between angling and standing on the shore looking like an idiot." I went from standing on the shore like a schmuck to consistently producing quality game fish of all species rather quickly, once I isolated a few key elements to angling.

An angler who has been fishing since they were young cannot offer this type of instruction. They learned in a different away, and they cannot isolate and teach the "pillars" or "essential elements" of angling as easily as someone who learned as an adult.

I am a mathematician and I have tutored and taught math from the elementary school level through to the university level. My students went from being totally confused by their teachers or professors to saying "wow, I can't believe how easy this is" after our tutoring sessions. I had a knack for simplifying calculus, as I do for simplifying fishing too.

Let me take you fishing, wade through the myriad of techniques and onslaught of information, to show you what you really need to know to have fun and catch more fish.

I do not teach "my way or the highway." I teach a deeper level of understanding of the sport, that transcends all techniques, water bodies and species. The art of angling.

I have accumulated thousands of hours of experience in just a few short years, and while it is impossible to teach all of that experience in one outing, I can teach the most critical components. Not everyone has hours daily to fish, multiple vehicles to burn into the ground by driving all over Ontario hunting for fish. But everyone can take advantage of the knowledge gained by an experienced angler, permitted that the experienced angler is a good teacher.

We will cover all of the bases in one outing.

A typical outing will consist of coldwater trout fishing, small and largemouth bass, pike and panfish. Other species, such as carp and walleye, may be added into an outing by request. All of the spots are conveniently located within a close proximity to one another. Each outing can be tailored to the needs of the client, depending on desired species and prior fishing experience.

What I consider to be the core elements of angling that transcend styles and species, will be taught and put into use throughout the outing. The best way to learn is by doing.

Whether you have some fishing experience, none at all, or want to diversify your fishing skills to include more species, I have a lot to offer. If your goal is to primarily fish deep lakes with a boat and to troll and downrig, my guiding service may not offer specifically what you are looking for as I am not experienced with those styles of fishing. If your goal is primarily to fly fish, even though I do not use a fly rod, my service will still prove very beneficial. I will not teach fly tying and casting with a fly rod, but I will still be teaching the fundamentals of angling regardless of style.

I will be accepting cash and credit card payments. An outing will cost between $100-$120. If you are on a tight budget and really want to book an outing, this can be made payable in two installments since I am taking bookings on fairly short notice. Pick-up / drop-off can be arranged as required.

I am not setting up a separate website for my guiding services because similar to my guiding service offered last summer, I will only be offering this for a limited time. Last summer many new forum members joined as a result of my posting and guiding service. The forum grew and many members gained new experience. I expect the same thing to happen again.

That was a mouthful. Please PM me to further discuss my offering. I will set up a FAQ section below to address questions conveniently in one spot.

I am currently available for booking on Sunday, July 29th, 2012. I am going to be quite busy for the next few weeks. If there's a certain day that works great for you, let me know and I will work around my schedule.

Summary

In summary, the purpose of my offer is to teach the pillars of angling, the foundation upon which all styles of angling rest upon, to enable an angler to successfully target a variety of game species in a variety of conditions. The pillars will be put to immediate use and the lessons will be interwoven throughout the day, as we will be fishing for several species of game fish. You will see firsthand how they transcend techniques and species, and how they can be applied in all angling situations. You will finish the day a much more confident and knowledgeable angler.

FAQ

1. Weather: Outing may be postponed due to inclement weather in the event of lightning storms or other severe weather conditions.
2. Waders: Waders are not required, but if you have them we may wade at certain locations.
3. Location: Within or close to the GTA for the most part. Exceptions include walleye, which will be targeted at slightly further destinations.
4. Gear: Whatever gear you have should be fine. Specifics such as line thickness and types of lures can be discussed in detail once we have determined
what species we are targeting on our outing. I am teaching you how to fish, not spend money, and all of the bait, lures and hooks that we will use
can be supplied by me. Some excellent lures, such as Live Target frogs, are pricey, but they are not necessary. I have extra rods/reels if needed.

5. Prior experience: You can have some, none, or a lot.
6. More than 1 person: One or two people per outing. Cost will be a little bit less due to sharing the gas bill.
7. Discounts: Scientologists and escaped convicts will receive a 25% discount. Freemasons will be charged an additional 25%.
8. Catch and release vs. keeping fish: If you desire to keep some or all of your catch, we can select destinations with preferred fish for the table that offer abundant fish and clean water. I own a conservation fishing license and this year I have been mostly catching and releasing, but I am an angler that definitely understands the appeal of keeping your catch from waters where it will not harm the population. Proper filleting techniques can be taught and demonstrated.

9. Salmon run: Last year I guided for salmon. I don't see any reasons for not doing so this year too. I can guide for pier fishing as well as river salmon. Please PM to discuss.
10. Steelhead: The primary steelhead run begins in the fall. My guiding service is a limited time offer, and I cannot guarantee that I will still be offering this service by the time the
steelhead are in.

11. Length of outing and time of day: This is flexible. We can fish anywhere from a few hours to a half day or even a full day. This will depend on availability of time and desired species. On average, we can fish for most species and have a thorough outing in half a day.

12. Can you teach me how to fish at my cottage: In short answer, yes, this can be arranged if desired.

A note from OFF staff: OFF does not endorse this or any other guiding service

 

[FishingNoob]

Well, the post is up. Check your pms.

 

[ALN]

Very interested a pm will be sent

 

[Blair]

ALL the BEST this YEAR (Again)

I enjoyed your WRITE UP. Nicely stated.



I'm still in a conumdrum over: (here in the GTA area)


1. Walleye (Pickerel)

2. Big Channel Cats

3. Friggin DRUMS (Sheepshead)


Have not caught a SINGLE ONE or actually SEEN anyone pull out of the water (Shore Fishing).

And you KNOW how much time I spend on the GTA waters.


Baffles me....

 

[Dugger]

this is very cool. God if we all had the benefit when starting out to take advantage of this. Very well presented!

 

[float^drifter]

this is very cool. God if we all had the benefit when starting out to take advantage of this. Very well presented!

ahha u said it.It doesn't get easier then this all u have to do is pay the man lol. I spent countless hours on river banks gettin skunked. Took me almost a year to get into my first steelhead. It takes time, patience, and figuring what works when if u want to be successful.

 

[Rain-Bow]

salmotrutta seems like a very smart man, but be warned he started salmon fishing like 2 years ago...

 

[Blair]

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
- Robert Louis Stevenson


"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie


"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected with out trials." -- Chinese proverb


"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." Epictetus



"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
David Bailey



"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden




"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
-- Thomas Edison

 

[Blair]

I am a mathematician and I have tutored and taught math from the elementary school level through to the university level. My students went from being totally confused by their teachers or professors to saying "wow, I can't believe how easy this is" after our tutoring sessions. I had a knack for simplifying calculus, as I do for simplifying fishing too.


Spooky Action at a Distance

Every age develops its stories or metaphors for how the universe was conceived and structured. According to an ancient Indian creation myth, the universe was created when the gods dismembered the primordial giant Purusa, whose head became the sky, whose feet became the Earth, and whose breath became the wind. To Aristotle, the universe was a collection of 55 concentric crystalline spheres, the outermost being heaven, surrounding those of the planets, Earth and its elements, and finally the seven circles of hell.

In 1947, eight years before his death, Einstein wrote to a friend that he could not seriously believe in quantum mechanics because "physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance." He was referring to quantum entanglement, one of the quantum world’s most bizarre attributes.

With Newton and his precise, deterministic mathematical formulation of motion, the description changed again. The universe was likened to an enormous, grand clockwork: After being wound and set into its initial state, the clockwork universe ticks from one moment to the next with complete regularity and predictability.

Einstein’s special and general relativity pointed out important subtleties of the clockwork metaphor: There is no single, preferred, universal clock; there is no consensus on what constitutes a moment, what constitutes a now. Even so, you can still tell a clockworklike story about the evolving universe. The clock is your clock. The story is your story. But the universe unfolds with the same regularity and predictability as in the Newtonian framework. If by some means you know the state of the universe right now—if you know where every particle is and how fast and in what direction each is moving—then, Newton and Einstein agree, you can, in principle, use the laws of physics to predict everything about the universe arbitrarily far into the future or to figure out what it was like arbitrarily far into the past.


Enter quantum weirdness

Quantum mechanics breaks with this tradition. We can’t ever know the exact location and exact velocity of even a single particle. We can’t predict with total certainty the outcome of even the simplest of experiments, let alone the evolution of the entire cosmos. Quantum mechanics shows that the best we can ever do is predict the probability that an experiment will turn out this way or that. And as quantum mechanics has been verified through decades of fantastically accurate experiments, the Newtonian cosmic clock, even with its Einsteinian updating, is an untenable metaphor; it is demonstrably not how the world works.

Something that happens over here can be entwined with something that happens over there. But the break with the past is yet more complete. Even though Newton’s and Einstein’s theories differ sharply on the nature of space and time, they do agree on certain basic facts, certain truths that appear to be self-evident.

Space, whatever else it is, serves as the medium that separates two distinct things, like two birds, Greene says. But quantum entanglement belies that apparent truth.


How we think of space

If there is space between two objects—if there are two birds in the sky and one is way off to your right and the other is way off to your left—we can and do consider the two objects to be independent. We regard them as separate and distinct entities. Space, whatever it is fundamentally, provides the medium that separates and distinguishes one object from another. That is what space does. Things occupying different locations in space are different things.

Moreover, in order for one object to influence another, it must in some way negotiate the space that separates them. One bird can fly to the other, traversing the space between them, and then peck or nudge its companion. One person can influence another by shooting a slingshot, causing a pebble to traverse the space between them, or by yelling, causing a domino effect of bouncing air molecules, one jostling the next until some bang into the recipient’s eardrum.

Being yet more sophisticated, one can exert influence on another by firing a laser, causing an electromagnetic wave—a beam of light—to traverse the intervening space. Or, being more ambitious, one can hypothetically shake or move a massive body (like the moon), sending a gravitational disturbance speeding from one location to another.

To be sure, if we are over here we can influence someone over there, but no matter how we do it, the procedure always involves someone or something traveling from here to there, and only when the someone or something gets there can the influence be exerted.

Quantum entanglement brings to mind voodoo (here, a voodoo idol from Benin, West Africa). But the scientific evidence that it exists is overwhelming, Greene says.


Voodoo reality


Physicists call this feature of the universe locality, emphasizing the point that you can directly affect only things that are next to you, that are local. Voodoo contravenes locality, since it involves doing something over here and affecting something over there without the need for anything to travel from here to there, but common experience leads us to think that verifiable, repeatable experiments would confirm locality. And most do.

But a class of experiments performed during the last couple of decades has shown that something we do over here (such as measuring certain properties of a particle) can be subtly entwined with something that happens over there (such as the outcome of measuring certain properties of another distant particle), without anything being sent from here to there.

Intervening space does not ensure that two objects are separate. While intuitively baffling, this phenomenon fully conforms to the laws of quantum mechanics, and was predicted using quantum mechanics long before the technology existed to do the experiment and observe, remarkably, that the prediction is correct. This sounds like voodoo; Einstein, who was among the first physicists to recognize—and sharply criticize—this possible feature of quantum mechanics, called it “spooky.” But the long-distance links these experiments confirm are extremely delicate and are, in a precise sense, fundamentally beyond our ability to control.

As unfathomable as it sounds, repeatable experiments reveal that quantum connections between two particles can persist even if the two particles are on opposite sides of the universe. (Here, a star cluster within our Milky Way galaxy.)


The twain shall meet

Nevertheless, these results, coming from both theoretical and experimental considerations, strongly support the conclusion that the universe admits interconnections that are not local. Something that happens over here can be entwined with something that happens over there even if nothing travels from here to there—and even if there isn’t enough time for anything, even light, to travel between the events.

This means that space cannot be thought of as it once was: Intervening space, regardless of how much there is, does not ensure that two objects are separate, since quantum mechanics allows an entanglement, a kind of connection, to exist between them. A particle, like one of the countless number that make up you or me, can run but it can’t hide.

According to quantum theory and the many experiments that bear out its predictions, the quantum connection between two particles can persist even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. From the standpoint of their entanglement, notwithstanding the many trillions of miles of space between them, it’s as if they are right on top of each other.

Numerous assaults on our conception of reality are emerging from modern physics. But of those that have been experimentally verified, I find none more mind-boggling than this recent realization that our universe is not local.

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He is the author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, from which this essay was excerpted and on which the four-part NOVA series premiering in fall 2011 is based. Greene is also the author of The Elegant Universe, the subject of a three-part NOVA series that aired in 2003, and The Hidden Reality.


______________________________

Could I get this explained during a fine day of Fishing?


lol

 

[openfire]

I would like to offer a unique guiding service. I would like to teach as much as is possible to teach in one outing, enough to turn even someone with zero angling experience into a knowledgeable angler.

A knowledgeable angler by my definition can catch fish in known destinations, as well as locate and successfully fish new destinations, and cross over their experience to new species.

How can this be accomplished?

For starters, I learned to fish just 3 years ago. I had to learn everything from scratch. Although with angling, you never stop learning, there were a few key elements to my approach to angling that made all of the difference.

As the saying goes, "there's a fine line between angling and standing on the shore looking like an idiot." I went from standing on the shore like a schmuck to consistently producing quality game fish of all species rather quickly, once I isolated a few key elements to angling.

An angler who has been fishing since they were young cannot offer this type of instruction. They learned in a different away, and they cannot isolate and teach the "pillars" or "essential elements" of angling as easily as someone who learned as an adult.

I am a mathematician and I have tutored and taught math from the elementary school level through to the university level. My students went from being totally confused by their teachers or professors to saying "wow, I can't believe how easy this is" after our tutoring sessions. I had a knack for simplifying calculus, as I do for simplifying fishing too.

Let me take you fishing, wade through the myriad of techniques and onslaught of information, to show you what you really need to know to have fun and catch more fish.

I do not teach "my way or the highway." I teach a deeper level of understanding of the sport, that transcends all techniques, water bodies and species. The art of angling.

I have accumulated thousands of hours of experience in just a few short years, and while it is impossible to teach all of that experience in one outing, I can teach the most critical components. Not everyone has hours daily to fish, multiple vehicles to burn into the ground by driving all over Ontario hunting for fish. But everyone can take advantage of the knowledge gained by an experienced angler, permitted that the experienced angler is a good teacher.

We will cover all of the bases in one outing.

A typical outing will consist of coldwater trout fishing, small and largemouth bass, pike and panfish. Other species, such as carp and walleye, may be added into an outing by request. All of the spots are conveniently located within a close proximity to one another. Each outing can be tailored to the needs of the client, depending on desired species and prior fishing experience.

What I consider to be the core elements of angling that transcend styles and species, will be taught and put into use throughout the outing. The best way to learn is by doing.

Whether you have some fishing experience, none at all, or want to diversify your fishing skills to include more species, I have a lot to offer. If your goal is to primarily fish deep lakes with a boat and to troll and downrig, my guiding service may not offer specifically what you are looking for as I am not experienced with those styles of fishing. If your goal is primarily to fly fish, even though I do not use a fly rod, my service will still prove very beneficial. I will not teach fly tying and casting with a fly rod, but I will still be teaching the fundamentals of angling regardless of style.

I will be accepting cash and credit card payments. An outing will cost between $100-$120. If you are on a tight budget and really want to book an outing, this can be made payable in two installments since I am taking bookings on fairly short notice. Pick-up / drop-off can be arranged as required.

I am not setting up a separate website for my guiding services because similar to my guiding service offered last summer, I will only be offering this for a limited time. Last summer many new forum members joined as a result of my posting and guiding service. The forum grew and many members gained new experience. I expect the same thing to happen again.

That was a mouthful. Please PM me to further discuss my offering. I will set up a FAQ section below to address questions conveniently in one spot.

I am currently available for booking on Sunday, July 29th, 2012. I am going to be quite busy for the next few weeks. If there's a certain day that works great for you, let me know and I will work around my schedule.

Summary

In summary, the purpose of my offer is to teach the pillars of angling, the foundation upon which all styles of angling rest upon, to enable an angler to successfully target a variety of game species in a variety of conditions. The pillars will be put to immediate use and the lessons will be interwoven throughout the day, as we will be fishing for several species of game fish. You will see firsthand how they transcend techniques and species, and how they can be applied in all angling situations. You will finish the day a much more confident and knowledgeable angler.

FAQ

1. Weather: Outing may be postponed due to inclement weather in the event of lightning storms or other severe weather conditions.
2. Waders: Waders are not required, but if you have them we may wade at certain locations.
3. Location: Within or close to the GTA for the most part. Exceptions include walleye, which will be targeted at slightly further destinations.
4. Gear: Whatever gear you have should be fine. Specifics such as line thickness and types of lures can be discussed in detail once we have determined
what species we are targeting on our outing. I am teaching you how to fish, not spend money, and all of the bait, lures and hooks that we will use
can be supplied by me. Some excellent lures, such as Live Target frogs, are pricey, but they are not necessary. I have extra rods/reels if needed.

5. Prior experience: You can have some, none, or a lot.
6. More than 1 person: One or two people per outing. Cost will be a little bit less due to sharing the gas bill.
7. Discounts: Scientologists and escaped convicts will receive a 25% discount. Freemasons will be charged an additional 25%.
8. Catch and release vs. keeping fish: If you desire to keep some or all of your catch, we can select destinations with preferred fish for the table that offer abundant fish and clean water. I own a conservation fishing license and this year I have been mostly catching and releasing, but I am an angler that definitely understands the appeal of keeping your catch from waters where it will not harm the population. Proper filleting techniques can be taught and demonstrated.

9. Salmon run: Last year I guided for salmon. I don't see any reasons for not doing so this year too. I can guide for pier fishing as well as river salmon. Please PM to discuss.
10. Steelhead: The primary steelhead run begins in the fall. My guiding service is a limited time offer, and I cannot guarantee that I will still be offering this service by the time the
steelhead are in.

11. Length of outing and time of day: This is flexible. We can fish anywhere from a few hours to a half day or even a full day. This will depend on availability of time and desired species. On average, we can fish for most species and have a thorough outing in half a day.

12. Can you teach me how to fish at my cottage: In short answer, yes, this can be arranged if desired.

I have no doubt that you have an ability to simplify calculus, as do I as a fellow mathematician. (graphing works wonderfully for the less mathematically inclined as people tend to be visual learners) However, in order to allow you to continue to offer your PAID services on this forum, in the best interests of new members and inexperienced fishermen, I would like some form of proof of your angling expertise. Again, I am not doubting that you have mastered the art of angling in 3 years, it's just that I do not know you personally and cannot in good conscience allow you to use this site as a platform without verification of your credentials.

Please PM me with your answers to the following questions, and based on your answers I will allow you to continue offering your services on OFF on a go forward basis as I feel that IF you are legit, you can actually help aspiring anglers. I have no problem with you profiting so long as you are actually helping people.

1) What are the 3 most important lessons (in general) you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?
2) What is the most important largemouth bass fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?
3) What is the most important smallmouth bass fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?
4) What is the most important salmon fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?
5) Can you explain to me in 500 words or less "the art of angling"?

If you can answer the above questions satisfactorily, not only will I allow you to offer your services, I will personally endorse your service. (provided you have positive feedback from those who have tried your services)

Cheers,

openfire

 

[salmotrutta]

salmotrutta seems like a very smart man, but be warned he started salmon fishing like 2 years ago...

To clarify,

I have only been fishing for 3 years.

The bulk of my salmon fishing was done last year, although I went on about 7 outings the previous year.

Let's crunch some numbers here.

From mid-August until the ending of October, I fished nearly everyday last season, often for the whole day. If we conservatively say 4 outings a week, that's roughly 300 hours during the peak of the season. I continued steelheading throughout November and December as well on the tail end of the salmon run.

If a recreational angler fished the salmon run one full day every weekend throughout the same period, the angler would have fished for 64 hours. So conservatively speaking, I received about 5 years worth of experience fishing the run. However, all of my previous fishing experience took those "5 years" a lot further than I would have, had I not already been an experienced angler. Furthermore, when you concentrate your experience, that also tends to take it further. Each day on the water is unique, and as a result I have fished all of the types of conditions that the run can throw at you within a season. My prior steelheading experience extends way beyond 300 hours, so I hit the ground running with the fall run last year.

 

[salmotrutta]

However, in order to allow you to continue to offer your PAID services on this forum, in the best interests of new members and inexperienced fishermen, I would like some form of proof of your angling expertise.

Hopefully, all of my previous posts and reports, and the questions I have answered for members, serve as proof of my angling expertise. These include brook trout, brown trout, walleye, smallmouth and largemouth bass, pike, steelhead, salmon and panfish reports.

Again, I am not doubting that you have mastered the art of angling in 3 years

I learned angling in just as much time as it takes to learn angling. That's not measured so much in years as it is hours spent on the water. I ran the numbers and they run into the thousands. If you were to calculate how many hours the average Ontario recreational angler would spend fishing in a lifetime, I have over a century of fishing experience if not more. Concentration can be powerful. I concentrated my hours on the water, often fishing 3 times a day for months at a time, and fishing all day whenever I could.

Blair is an example of an angler on this website with decades of experience fishing all over Canada. He endorsed my guiding service from the get-go last season, as he has kept up with my posts on this forum and hopefully could see that I am indeed able to offer that which I am proposing. I am not exaggerating my abilities.

My angling experience is somewhat unique, and as such I didn't simply state "I mastered angling, so hire me as a guide." My offer is lengthy to aid in explaining more specifically what my aim is and how I intend to accomplish it.

1) What are the 3 most important lessons (in general) you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?

a) Angling is offering food to a fish with a hook in it. Fish have to eat in order to survive.

B) Don't stand on shore thinking that because you can't see where the fish are, fishing is all about dumb luck and waiting for a bite. Actively engage in angling, because the resources that are at your disposable are sufficient to overcome the fact that you can't see through the water and know exactly what's swimming where.

c) Permitted you are not neglecting more important obligations, especially looking after your children and loved ones, time spent fishing is time very well spent. I do not have children, which is why I can fish so often.

2) What is the most important largemouth bass fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?

Let's say you go to a lake that produces good largemouth, to your favourite bay on the lake, and one day the fish aren't there. You can spend the day roaming the lake trying to locate them, you can change baits, or you can wait for them to move in to your bay. Each can be an equally effective strategy - because fish move around and feed on different baits at different times of the day.

3) What is the most important smallmouth bass fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?

I look for rocks.

4) What is the most important salmon fishing lesson you have learned in your 3 years of fishing?

Tie your knot well to a hook where the line isn't rubbing up against a sharp area of the eye of the hook, adjust your drag correctly, keep your rod tip up, and keep tension on the line as the fish rolls, runs and jumps, and you will be able to land salmon with normal line. A weak knot, with the line touching a sharp part of the eye (hook eyes are rarely perfect circles with perfectly round metal), will break the line.

5) Can you explain to me in 500 words or less "the art of angling"?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Angling is offering food to a fish with a hook in it. Fish have to eat in order to survive. Each species is predisposed to feeding on certain foods and striking at certain presentations. Fishing is underwater hunting.

Fishing is a game of basic, primal physics. Ironic then, isn't it, that I decided to call this the art of angling.

If you can answer the above questions satisfactorily, not only will I allow you to offer your services, I will personally endorse your service. (provided you have positive feedback from those who have tried your services)

Cheers,

openfire

After I caught my first pike, with a cheap Canadian Tire pike fishing kit, I realized that the pamphlet that came with the rod, reel and lures gave exact instructions on how to catch pike with live bait and lures, including tying a proper knot. I laughed, because it took me thousands of casts and several outings to figure that out.

There is more to fishing than catching fish. I don't have to teach anyone to enjoy nature, most people can already do that. I can teach people a lot about angling and be an important point along their lifelong learning path with the sport. One of the most rewarding parts of which is finding your own honey holes.

PS. I am in Long Island right now, but I hear we are getting a lot of rain today in Ontario. I guess that means you will no longer be banned from large portions of prime fishing territory in Ontario?

 

[salmotrutta]

Could I get this explained during a fine day of Fishing?


lol

I'll be happy to try to explain to you what I think is, is :lol: Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a great place to start, along with anything from Richard Feynman.

 

[diggyj]

Seems like everyone is offering guiding these days. Maybe I should do it on Rice Lake?

 

[float^drifter]

openfire shoud charge u folks for using hes site to make money. 20% of whatever u make :grin:

 

[salmotrutta]

openfire shoud charge u folks for using hes site to make money. 20% of whatever u make :grin:

Last time I posted a guide offering on this site, a lot of new members joined just to message me. Some stayed on and became regular contributors. I think it's beneficial for the forum community. I'm not just taking them out for a whirl on kings on Lake O for $400, I'm teaching angling.

Besides, openfire hardly has any time for this forum, which means he's probably raking it in, with whatever is keeping him that busy.

Money sucks, maybe one day we'll learn to live without it.

 

[salmotrutta]

Seems like everyone is offering guiding these days. Maybe I should do it on Rice Lake?

With the numbers and size of bass you're catching, the only question is why haven't you already? I'm sure someone on here can make a website for you in exchange for a free trip, if you aren't able to make your own site. Do it if you feel like it - you'll have a blast.

 

[NADO]

Wow Salmo, u really got put under the gun there lol.

 

[openfire]

Fair enough.

I did receive a pm from a member here who has partaken in your guiding service and he did vouch for the fact that you delivered on your promise of producing fish; However, there were a few minor details mentioned in the PM that unfortunately prevent me from personally endorsing your service. I will therefore allow you to continue offering your service on OFF (provided that there is no future negative feedback) with the caveat that OFF does not endorse this or any other guiding service that may be offered on this site in the future unless explicitly stated by me or a member of OFF staff.

All the best,
openfire

 

[Dugger]

Fair enough.

I did receive a pm from a member here who has partaken in your guiding service and he did vouch for the fact that you delivered on your promise of producing fish; However, there were a few minor details mentioned in the PM that unfortunately prevent me from personally endorsing your service. I will therefore allow you to continue offering your service on OFF (provided that there is no future negative feedback) with the caveat that OFF does not endorse this or any other guiding service that may be offered on this site in the future unless explicitly stated by me or a member of OFF staff.

All the best,
openfire

*whew!* we came through the other side, Salmo with flying colours..... everybody exhale!