Captain Art's thought for the day - Lake Erie guides

The steelhead trout have been in the shallows and we have just been hammering fish. But I have had the dis-pleasure of some guides taking their customers who should have learned a little fishing etiquette before doing anything else.

When the fish are in the shallows they are very spooky. Yesterday evening I was fishing and this guide walked with his customer, upstream of me no more than 20 feet away. Needless to say the fish I were after were spooked and swam away. What is wrong with these people? Apparently they never developed any manners as they were growing up. My dad taught me many, many moons ago to give another fisherman room. This meant if I had headed to a favorite spot of mine and someone was already there I simply went somewhere else.

These guides leave a lot to be desired. I do things right & do them by the book and manage to do pretty well for customers as a river guide or boat captain.

So for you guides out there who do not know any better.......maybe you could do something other than fishing, ie: work in automotive or landscaping if you wish to visit the outdoors. If you would like to speak to a good captain visit me on the web at http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com


Good friends, tight lines & no visits by people who leave a lot to be desired with their manners

Unhappy Captain Art :(

Captain Art's thought for the day - suckers are fish

Well, the river waters have receded enough to go steelhead trout fishing again. We were fishing yesterday and had fish on all day long. The bad part is that most of them were suckers which had moved upstream in the muddy water. We caught at least 10 suckers to one steelhead trout.

I looked at my friend Shawn and said suckers are fish too! Both of us agreed that catching fish, no matter what kind was better than catching nothing at all. There is fishing & there is catching & both are fine with me.

Hopefully when you book a fishing trip with us you will experience both of them. A bad day on the water exceeds the best day of working.

Visit us on the web to see what is biting ....... http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com

God bless America and her fishermen!!! Captain Art