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Guide School
By Geoff Mueller   
Monday, 03 May 2010 15:41

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Saturday

Wake at 11:00. Practice straight-faced recitals of: "It's really more of a mid-day fishery.”

Anyone up before 9:00 will be sequestered for remainder of week. Anyone up at 6:00 saying "Let's go for bagels!" will be sent home immediately. Afternoon seminar: co-opting expertise—sponging off of your buddy's success stories. Extra workshop: Motivational Flyfishing with Tony Robbins and Landon Mayer: “You CAN overpower the trout! You WILL land a lunker! Visualize! VISUALIZE!!”

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Mullet vs. Mullet
By Grant Summerlin   
Monday, 19 February 2007 09:51

One is a ridiculed fish.
One is a ridiculed haircut.
We explain the difference.

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10 Top Ways to Make Your Guide Consider a Career Change
By Grant Summerlin   
Monday, 19 February 2007 09:49
  1. When booking the trip, inform your guide that you are prone to epileptic seizures, get kidney dialysis twice a week, and are recover­ing from surgery on both your knees. You can't walk very far or stay confined in small spaces for more than a couple of hours, but would like to get on uncrowded waters where the big fish don't get any pressure.
  2. Any time you see another fisherman or pass another boat yell over, "Are you catchin' any? We ain't catchin' shit!"
  3. Ask your guide how big the biggest fish he ever caught was and what fly he caught it on. Then ask him why you aren't using that fly.
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Flyshop Guy
By Grant Summerlin   
Monday, 19 February 2007 09:40
  1. Fly shop guy is staunchly heterosexual, twenty­something, and uncertain of his politics.
  2. Fly shop guy spent six or seven years at a southern university and is named Justin, Jeremy, Jonathan, Gifford, Trevor, Tripp or Tristan.

  3. Fly shop guy will say things across the river when fishing is poor like, "Holy shit, dude, even the choice runs are total bunkweed schwagg water!" No one knows what the hell he is saying.
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