Quote Originally Posted by DaveStewart View Post
Here is my 2 cents...if this is what you want to do and you have the means to do it...then go for it. But let me tell you something, I know the guide business and if you go up there and set your rates at half the going rate of the other guides, plan on coming home because those ol home boys there that make their living guiding will ensure you fail. While there you might want to put up some concertina wire around your motor home and boat and get a big nasty watch dog. It is one thing to come into a rural area and compete for guide business but it is another to come into a rural area and try to compete by taking the bread out of the local folks families mouths by undercutting the established going rate for a guide. You will only as successful as a guide as your reputation is good and that is especially true of the reputation you build with the locals....and especially the local guides...you earn that respect by proving yourself to be a good, professional guide, providing a professional service....building a successful guide service is not done overnight and it certainly is not done by alienating the folks you are gonna be living and working around.
Dave,,,you are perfetly right, and I understand what you are saying. And thanks thats one of the things that I would have thought about. Thats way I put this post on,,And when someone gives a comment like yours,,I do take what you say has trying to help..I feel like alot people think that I think I can just go up there and BAM I`m a guide...no thats not my thinking. I`m taking about starting out very small. Takeing time to talk to resort owner or owners and lets not say guide,,i know what I want to say but can`t figure out how,,lets put it this way,,I`d work for the resorts not as a guide but as a person(empoyee) to show their customers around the lake or lakes to give them a start and Idea where to start fishing on their own. Lake 101 so to speak. I`m planning on fishing everyday relearning the lakes I know very well,,been 5 yrs and got to relearn them. Time on the water,,what esle do i have to do by myself..lol I got to get my foot in the frist. But I might try and get a resort to make a deal with me on a cabin to stay in for the season for a real good rate and take his people out for them show them are and when I`m not doing that help around the place with boat repairs...be kinda a in house guide/dock boy..that why I get interduced to all kinds of people. And if this all don`t work out,,,it will be one hell of a nice vacation! Like I said,,,she`s paying for this to get me gone...lol But I know it will take time. Alot of work and time on the water and a few free trips to show what Ican do,,I just got to give it a shot,,start real small andwork my way up,,not going to get rich,,just want to live and enjoy life for awhile..Thanks Dave you made me think