The difference is probably that all of those freshwater guides have been flyfishing their whole life or at least a good chunk of it. They have fished with plenty of guides, know what the expectations, and should be very good fly fishermen themselves. Most of them truly love their work. Most of the guides in different parts of the world know very little about fly fishing, and only learned what they do know because it was a job opportunity. You just can't hold them to the same standard as you do guides here, especially if you are finding random independent guides on the islands. At the better lodges they do a better job screening and training guides but that is not the case everywhere.
On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:43:21 PM UTC-4, Jeff Ford wrote:
My experience is that all island guides suck. I have done 3 trips in various islands. All bad experiences. About 10 freshwater trout and salmon trips and 9'were good, great, or flat out amazing. I only had 1 bad trout trip because he was a young college kid who didn't know much. I think the island life makes them less oriented to hard work, customer service, etc. and once you are there they have you so to speak. A guy guiding a western md river has a lot more to lose if the local fishing population starts to talk about him poorly.
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