PRM wrote:
Pretty simple question.

Do you prefer to have a guide or not?

I like to hire a good guide whenever I go to new waters.
If I'm going to fish a stream for 5 or 6 days I'll hire a
guide for the first day and then fish the rest of the week
by myself. I just took a trip on the Eleven Point River in
the Missouri Ozarks intending to fish one day with the guide
and then a couple or three more by myself. The lessons I
learned about reading that river by watching the guide float
it doubtless would have saved many scratches and dings on my
canoe if I had decided to hang around and fish it again.

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Ken Fortenberry