As a guide, you always hope for good days. If you fish a lot you will definitely have them, but you will also have your share of bad days! On the good days, it’s easy to hang around the launch or lodge a little longer to see your fellow guides or to talk to clients. On the bad days, sometimes it feels that you can’t get away fast enough. It’s easy to blow up social media with posts on the good days and just go silent on the bad days. Or maybe worse, try to make a bad day not look so bad by embellishing a post. Now I realize that some people may see this and ask, “why post any of it?” To each their own when it comes down to whether to post, what to post, or not post at all.
I’ve come to realize that the bad days have helped me improve as a guide more than anything else. I don’t ever want to have days where clients have bad days, but realize it is going to happen. If you have had some bad days recently, go somewhere different or try something different. It is insane to keep doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result right? Now I’m not going to try to make you believe that everyday is rainbows and unicorns for me just by trying something different. I have a bad attitude sometimes that causes me to just want the day to be over, but that only makes the day suck that much more! And I’ll admit, I have had some sucky days. You may think that it’s the weathers fault, the tides fault, or some other things fault for you having a bad day. Chances are though, your attitude and actions play into the suck factor of the trip.
We choose everyday if we are going to have good attitudes and actions. There are days when I don’t want to get up so early before I can even focus my eyes on the coffee scoop. It’s in times like these that I remind myself that I have one of the best jobs on earth. I remember years of wanting to be in the guide world in some way form or fashion, and now that I’m in it I never want to have feelings of not wanting to get up and get after it! I try to make everyday a good day. I don’t always succeed, but I’m trying everyday to make it good day! The picture above is from a day while out with another guide on a “bad day” as far as numbers of fish were concerned, but it was a “good day” as far as I’m concerned.