Muskie Help Again

[Legend killer]

Originally Posted by Ol'Bassman

I think using what guides do and recommend as an example in this debate overlooks the fact that guides have a vested interest. Not that they are bias, its that their opinions are colored by the dollars they charge to guide. Their opinions are valuable but should be taken with a grain of salt.

If their opinions are colored by the dollars they charge then they would guide year round.

[Mason52]

Many don't quit. I know that Tony Grant and Greg Thomas are up North guiding as we speak, along with almost all the other major guides from the Southern muskie range. Don't get me wrong as I'm not promoting fishing in the hot water, just know that many of these guides do go up North and continue to guide when the lakes around here get warm. They plan their schedules around when they know the water will warm up and start booking clients on certain dates in June or July up North. Then move back South in the Fall and go back to fishing/guiding on there home waters. I wouldn't want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg either. I would probably do the same thing if that's what I did for a living, which I wouldn't want to do. Not built to be a guide...

[Tatonka]

Originally Posted by Mason52

This thread is a perfect example of why we've needed a tagging system, it will help people see what is going on with the fish in Ohio. If the temps in Leesville and West Branch are anything like Caesar's is then people are wrong about the hot water being a death sentence for these fish, because they are absolutely slaying fish in these two lakes with around a hundred out of each one (just in July)

Caught 2 at Leesville yesterday, water was 79.5 degrees and both were released in good health
I was worried about one because it rolled up in net and it unhooked itself but I got him untangled, tilted the net down and he shot out of the net