Looking for Guides
 

Please hit me up if you're a guide. Looking for yak fishing guides.
-Mobyfish

Be your own guide, its far more rewarding

To each there own. For me it made sense and didn't feel any less rewarding. But that is just me :D

If your second post ever is trolling for a guide, there isn't much hope for the DIY approach.

It didn't feel less rewarding because you had instant success, unlike many who fish mired in frustration for months or years before figuring out how to target large game fish.

As you said, to each their own. I know for a fact it's money well spent if you don't have hundreds of hours to burn chasing birds and phantom sonar marks. Call the Darkhorse, Moby!

guides
 

Hey Guys, thanks for the participation on this thread.

I'm actually looking for several guides. I have a ton of people that want to go fishing and I want to send them the right way. Should have been more clear.

That said, I could personally use some tuning up on my skills. If anyone wants to go out as a guide for a day let me know. Be glad to give you my business.

-Mobyfish

I'll take you out and we can catch a ton of nothing. If that doesn't suit your needs, call josh aka the dark horse.

If you're in the Long Beach/San Pedro area and want to target bass and halibut, you can shadow me in exchange for a few margaritas

Trust me I have struggled with this many times. If you are local fisherman then your time on the water and read the forums. If you don't catch a YT in 10 years then you are not doing enough reading or you have not spent enough time on the water. FYI, I still have NOT caught YT on a yak .... trust me I will!!!!

If you have put in your time on the yak (for whatever reason) and you ready to throw in the towel or your are from out of town then call Dark Horse. If I was to go to the east coast fishing for Tarpon off a kayak ... you are damn straight I would look for a guide,.


Those "local" guys who paid a get a guide, I don't knock you, to each their own ... I am one of those few guys that are a glutton for punishment ...work, work, work and then work again. I caught my first legal Hali with no guide (took 8 months ) ... and boy did it feel damn good.


---rant over fish on all :cheers1:


:cheers1:

When I went with the dark horse, first thing I said was that I want to learn and shorten the learning curve. Catching a fish was extra. Although I didn't land a yellow, I learned to how to do everything ftom surf launch, to make baut, to areas to fish, to fighting fish, blah blah blah. Get a guide to learn so u can repeat the correct steps without a guide.

kudos
 

Kudos to OC Tico. You are die hard, my friend:luxhello:

I agree
 

I agree completely with you Cadillyak. I'd be stoked to go out with Darkhorse. Also wish there were more guides like him. I need a lot of guides--not for me. I'm referring people to guides and have too many customers and not enough guides.

-Mobyfish:you_rock:

Thanks!
 

Thanks! I'll PM you in a minute.

-Mobyfish

there will probably be a groupon deal coming up soon, keep your eyes open

X2, X3, X4

PM Sent
 

PM Sent...

Ha! Unfortunately X2

The old "on your own vs. hire a guide" dabate. If you're referring clients for a day on the water kayak fishing, case closed. Hire a good guide - THEDARKHORSE.

For the rest of us it's a personal choice. I kayak fished for 4 years on my own and learned very little, very slowly without much of any help whatsoever (wasn't even aware of BWE and never talked to other kayak anglers because I launched and fished from birdrock area and didnt even know there was a launch in LJ.)

I lucked out a few times and admit it did feel much more rewarding when I would land the very occasional gamefsh on my own. You know what they say - even a broken clock is right twice a day. But I also made some mistakes (panicking when I caught my first BSB and not knowing how to get him quickly safely released, which was a close call but worked out)

Fellow BWE guys helped when I discovered LJ and hooked up but didn't come prepared with a gaff or game clip. The guys at El Pescador accepted a case of beer in exchange for yellowtail fillet help. All that was great and I'm glad it was part of my expirience.

Eventually I decided it's best to learn from the best. I paid to hire Josh and it was an unreal value for me, relative to the price he charges (time saved, number of fish caught, knowledge gained, money saved buying the right gear).

I'm convinced that it's more rewarding to struggle and then finally get what you're after in just about anything you do in life. If you're looking for a rewarding expirience, do it on your own for a while.

If you're looking to learn a ton of priceless fishing info, save time, save money, catch fish consistently, and shut up and follow instructions, Josh is the guy.

Thanks. Good call. I'll look out for that.

Thanks! Just sent reply.

Thanks Pelican. And Amen to all that. Calillyak said pretty much the same thing and I agree with you guys. Here's my situation:
1. I do want to improve my own skills and am hoping to get out there with Darkhorse.
2. Long story short, I'm working with a tour operator software platform. Huge number of kayak fishing clients in the system and no guides to refer them to. I need a lot of guides. So if you know any or know guys who want to do some guiding, please let me know.

-Mobyfish

Spend the money
 

The picture he supplies you with holding a trophy fish will be priceless . Look at all happy faces on fish porn Friday .

What is involved with being a guide? License, insurance and such...

I might be interested, not an expert in LJ but Dana Point and O'Side I am very familiar with.

If you're looking for a quick fix call the drug dealer:call:

If you have patience like me, cultivate your own drugs:sifone:

Ha! That's what I hear. Just sent you a PM.

-Mobyfish

Just sent you a PM.
-Mobyfish

Thanks Papa. Please check your PM.
-Mobyfish

Nobody wants sh-wag :sifone:

And dont you have help from more experienced growers :D

It sounds like it would be a fun part-time gig but I'm pretty sure just getting some guys who want to do some guiding won't fly, especially here in nanny-regulated California.

Like PapaDave touched on, I'd bet you need to use properly licensed guides which means they have a CA business license, proper liability insurance and surety bond, a CA guide license, and whatever other special things like CPR/Rescue training certs that the state may require for a hunting/fishing guide. If they do any guiding on a motorized vessel they would probably also need a commercial Coast Guard license.

You should ask a licensed guide about the requirements.

Nope

I love the consistency of my drug dealer. I'm addicted... and occasional isn't good enough. :D


You could be kayak fishing for 10 years and would probably only know half of what Josh teaches. Sure you can teach yourself... but some things he has taught me would be pretty close to impossible to figure out on your own.

I don't see a reason to downplay Kevin and Josh's business... but feel free to enlighten me

Perhaps you can enlighten me by telling me how exactly I downplayed two people whose names I never mentioned

[QUOTE=jorluivil;216893]Nope[/QUO


Are you saying you learned everything yourself?

Greg,Tony,Jim, and the rest were useless to you? Really?

Meh.
Maybe youre just slow.

Saying that a guide makes fishing less rewarding? You didn't mention them... just their business.


Whatever. I have just never understood the anti guide sentiment from some people, and have always found it funny that this attitude comes from people who rarely catch trophy fish.

You should start a guide service and focus on halibut....

[QUOTE=driftwood;216901]
Gabe-man, you've been useless to me you sum bitch. Start passing me your damn Friday fish reports (I'll even pay money for good detail) or I'll keep on your arse! :the_finger:
Jim

Wow....this is getting good!

This is a very interesting quote by Mr Jorluivil.

I guess he did learned something from Josh after all.



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