I know one guide here in the Nashville area that takes you out KNOWING the conditions aren't right and what little catching to be done will be done in the first hour of daylight.
He'll even tell you to bring swimming trunks so you can start swimming around 10:00AM. Then he strongly suggests that y'all head over to the marina for lunch at about 11-11:30. So you'd spend a good portion of your trip doing non fishing related things.
And he will only book for a full day trip (6-12:30) in the mornings but will book afternoon trips of a half day.
LOL, and his estimation of your fish's size is wildly exaggerated. We caught one hybrid and he's exclaiming it weighs ten pounds. I asked him to bring out a scale, it weighed 6 1/2 lbs.
He may have been guiding on the lake for many years and maybe he's pretty good, but I'd never recommend him.
So to hear ojibwa say he won't take anyone out if the conditions aren't at least a little favorable is refreshing to hear/know. To some guides, it is just a living and the customer is just another "john" in a long line of customers.
It was like once when a friend and I hired a guide a coupla months in advance. A few days before we met up I talked to him and we were discussing a spot gboyce and I had been fishing for sauger for the past week, me telling him we hadn't had much luck fishing that particular spot.
Come "guide day" where did we wind up fishing? You got it, the exact same spot I had been fishing for free the past week was now a sauger hotspot, costing us $320.00 for the day. I boated NO saugers, not even shorties, my buddy caught two. I was highly unimpressed.
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