This culled from an email sent by a reader apparently not entirely invested in making a fly fishing guide’s life any easier:
Most entertaining incident happened yesterday on our last float. I landed maybe the largest brown of the whole trip right at the guide-clogged boat ramp. Making a big display of releasing it in front of the crowds I turned to the guy rowing and loudly proclaimed: “They’re running smaller.”
Good luck meeting expectations now fish pimps.
I know that isn’t a nice thing to do to the guides, but I still find it hilarious! Is that wrong?
David(Quote)
No, it’s not wrong. Nothing in the Geneva Convention forbids it.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Classic and yes, also hilarious. In fact, I think I might have to remember that line…
David Knapp(Quote)
Except for the fact that it could have been the smallest brown of the day compared to the rest of the boats and besides, all the guides talked about what a douchebag that guy was and then laughed all the way to the bar with a crisp hundred dollar bill in their pocket.
Confused(Quote)
Busting chops is part of the game. There are no “Hurt Feelings Memorandums” on the water!
The guys I fish with all work together to figure out the conditions and genuinely want to help each other land fish. But I will get around a bend that is not producing and call Fish On! 5 times in the course of 5 minutes, just to watch a buddy come around and try that pool. When nothing happens, I will steal some twizzlers from him and say: “they just turned off.” When he is just around the bend again: “Fish On!” Then I usually just get a finger coming around the bend.
DanO(Quote)