After 6 years of sitting behind this desk -it still amazes me how resilient the guided fishing industry remains. But what it seems to boil down to is consistency. I've heard clients say this is one of the best places to come fishing because it gets better every single time they come out! The greatest part about that comment is that their hook setting skills have likely improved exponentially since their first visit!
Regardless, there's a certain camaraderie that happens the second time you get on a guide boat, when you know almost exactly what to expect from your day, even though our guides are going to try to exceed it, fishing is still fishing and it's impossible to have full control over mother nature.
The part about sturgeon fishing that just blows me away is that it doesn't matter if it's the second, third, twentieth, or thousandth time you go out with a guide, as soon as there's a swift hook set, or even sometimes just a bite it's like the STURGEON caused an electric current to run through the aluminum bottom of the boat to super charge the guide to transform into a giddy, bustling, school kid the last week in June. And seriously, it doesn't matter how calm cool and collected they are during regular circumstances, if you hooked up an EEG to his scalp, I'm almost positive you'd see a crazy amount of brain wave activity.
I swear it's contagious/conductive. After 6 years I'm pretty nonchalant about the whole experience, seeing as I have to talk about it almost every day. But even then, when you get me on the boat, somehow, when there's a fish on- I still get amped up!
I haven't ever paid between $100-$300 to go sturgeon fishing, although now I probably would if I'd never previously had the opportunity, it's pretty amazing!
I DO understand why people return year after year, season after season. Sometimes, twice a season!
here's what's been happening:
We had a Stag (often a guide's worst nightmare), but reports were they'd had a great time!
And today, on Merr's boat- a couple of beauties!
AND OF COURSE- Reports from Osoyoos: Rainbow trout fishing. This is from the weekend. We will be there form August 1st-15th so if you want to book for some sockeye fishing, or even Rainbow trout fishing- give us a holler.
Ciao for now-
Ria
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