Apparently fritz takes a dump at 5:50 am and 7:14pm
-Albemarle 248xf “Chella”
-Dolphin 18BC Pro
-Miscellaneous boats
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Originally posted by Island BoyApparently fritz takes a dump at 5:50 am and 7:14pm
-Albemarle 248xf “Chella”
-Dolphin 18BC Pro
-Miscellaneous boats
Hopefully, just not in between… In reality, I may hire him just to see him chum the grillage with the mid-day one…
RBF
My name is RBF, and I am a recovering major thread hijacker.
Whose alias are you again?
Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014
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Originally posted by CaptFritzWhose alias are you again?
Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014
Mac Daddy’s. After chumming the grillage and catching a few Bull Reds, can we swing by and see the jetty shad run…
RBF
My name is RBF, and I am a recovering major thread hijacker.
Just remember to bring your concrete blocks.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
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Originally posted by Cracker LarryJust remember to bring your concrete blocks.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Capt. Fritz has floaters… Ewww, trip is cancelled…
RBF
My name is RBF, and I am a recovering major thread hijacker.
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Originally posted by 23Sailfishquote:
Originally posted by PhinI have zero experience and proud of it.
http://www.sustainablefishing.org/
www.joinrfa.com
Luke 8:22-25
You’ve mistaken the word experience with the word couth…
Redfish Baron Extraordinaire
Now that was funny.
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Originally posted by CaptFritzBeen checking up on the competition and I notice there are a lot of people with many* years of experience on the water these days. My question about experience is does it start when you open your charter business or when your father or grandfather took you fishing when you were 5 years old? Thanks for the responses.
Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014
Fritz, Since all your buddies voted you best guide according to the Charleston City Paper why do you worry about the competition?
Do like the Charmin Bears and just enjoy the Go… cause every one goes.
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Originally posted by CaptFritzBeen checking up on the competition and I notice there are a lot of people with many* years of experience on the water these days. My question about experience is does it start when you open your charter business or when your father or grandfather took you fishing when you were 5 years old? Thanks for the responses.
Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014
No requirement to start a business other than the license, boat and money. Once you can start supporting yourself regardless of experience or lineage, then the true test begins…
RBF
My name is RBF, and I am a recovering major thread hijacker.
Viva Las Vegas
Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014
Just remember in 2016 to remind your friends to remember that it is adventure outdoors… not outdoor adventures.
2015 Best Fishing Charter - Charleston Outdoor Adventures
2014 Best Fishing Charter - Adventure Outdoors Fishing Charter
I asked an old guide friend about the guiding business once and he said guiding isn’t so much the fishing business with some people involved as much as it’s the people business with some fishing involved.
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Originally posted by Cracker LarryAs a fishing guide, your people skills are more important than your fishing skills. The best sometimes get skunked too, but the best will still have happy clients at the end of the day, even if they don’t catch a fish.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Amen!!
Earn it everyday
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet.
Do fish require more experience to catch once you are a guide? How do they know if you are a guide or not?
Also, I typically don’t care how many years of experience a guide has. I want to see a website with major catches and talk to people who have fished with them before. RESULTS beat “experience”. I would rather fish with a new guide who has been killing it over a 3rd generation fisherman with 100 years of experience, and mediocre catches, any day.
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I typically don't care how many years of experience a guide has. I want to see a website with major catches and talk to people who have fished with them before. RESULTS beat "experience".
I don’t disagree with you very often, but will have to on this, with all respect of course…
More often than not, experience is what produces good results on a day to day and long term basis. Experience also knows how to handle almost any emergency, heart attacks, heat strokes, severe lacerations and broken bones without panic, fix a sinking boat in a hurry, or a broke motor. Calm an overwhelmed person in a crisis. If you guide long enough, all of this will happen to you. My definition of a good day, in order, is that everybody comes home, nobody gets hurt, we don’t get towed in, everybody leaves happy and we catch a few fish. Fish are optional. The rest not so much.
Most of the best watermen I know can barely work a computer or send an email. Some of the ones who taught me coudn’t read or write but they knew that river. Making a website is out of the question. They know the water, the boats and the fish. And people. Flashy websites, not.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
People skills, as stated already, are definitely as or more important! When I worked as a mate offshore, some of the best tips came on days with slow fishing…being personable and finding ways to ensure they have fun will result in more repeats than almost anyfish. I hear stories every week of the Capt that yells for losing a fish, complains clients cannot cast, etc etc…Ultimately they paid to go have a good time and that is what should be catered to.
We left an Epic Sailfish bite offshore one time bc the clients found sailfish boring and wanted to go troll for kings. We left 600’ and headed in to 90’ and let them crank on 12# kings til they could not crank anymore.
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When I worked as a mate offshore, some of the best tips came on days with slow fishing....being personable and finding ways to ensure they have fun will result in more repeats than almost anyfish.
I had a beautiful lady as a first mate for about 5 or 6 years. She had a very nice front side and a very nice rear view, and wore string bikinis when fishing, weather permitting. If the price was right the top string would go. She could also handle almost any fish, and almost any client, without intervention from me. If she called for my help, I knew things were getting serious downstairs.
Some days she made a lot more money than I did:smiley:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
quote:Fair enough Larry! You are right! I think what I really mean to say is that RESULTS are what is important in my book, when I am personally booking a charter. I just want some kind of proof (even if it's just word of mouth from trustworthy sources, reputation, etc) that the captain knows how to catch fish.
Originally posted by Cracker Larryquote:
I typically don't care how many years of experience a guide has. I want to see a website with major catches and talk to people who have fished with them before. RESULTS beat "experience".
I don’t disagree with you very often, but will have to on this, with all respect of course…
More often than not, experience is what produces good results on a day to day and long term basis. Experience also knows how to handle almost any emergency, heart attacks, heat strokes, severe lacerations and broken bones without panic, fix a sinking boat in a hurry, or a broke motor. Calm an overwhelmed person in a crisis. If you guide long enough, all of this will happen to you. My definition of a good day, in order, is that everybody comes home, nobody gets hurt, we don’t get towed in, everybody leaves happy and we catch a few fish. Fish are optional. The rest not so much.
Most of the best watermen I know can barely work a computer or send an email. Some of the ones who taught me coudn’t read or write but they knew that river. Making a website is out of the question. They know the water, the boats and the fish. And people. Flashy websites, not.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
As far as all of the safety stuff, you are 100% correct. I wouldn’t want to f
quote:I would have fired my clients at that point... "Sorry guys, kings aren't biting today!"
Originally posted by ReelHunterWe left an Epic Sailfish bite offshore one time bc the clients found sailfish boring and wanted to go troll for kings. We left 600’ and headed in to 90’ and let them crank on 12# kings til they could not crank anymore.
without pix, there was no mate w/a string bikini
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