Northwest Reel Life April 2024 Volume 3 Issue 6 - Flipbook - Page 10
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guides how to pick
brent knight
I have been fishing my
entire life, but even today,
try to fish with at least
two to three different
guides a year to learn new
techniques and methods.
Outside of time on the
water, fishing with a guide
is the single greatest way
to become a better angler.
Note that even the most
experienced anglers can
learn new things and your
guide will be your teacher.
What continually impresses
me is just how much
our fishing methods can
change from one place to
the next and even within a
specific system, such as the
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Columbia River for example.
I am also surprised at how
confident guides tend to
be in their techniques. It
is equally surprising how
much those techniques
may differ from other
guides fishing the same
fishery. As a client, I find
that I receive a constant
barrage of feedback on
what I am doing correctly
or incorrectly and why. It
seems that one guide tells
me to fish a certain way
and when I replicate this
fishing technique with a
different guide, I am reeducated. As hard as this
is, it does build perspective
and allows us to become
better overall anglers.
