Vermont Fly Fishing

This week and last have been very busy guiding fisherman. Up at 5am, coffee-up, shower, load cooler with shore meal, make a dozen casts off the dock, give bird dog some loving, re-stock fly box....then in the truck headed for the Black river in Ludlow. Meet clients, hit the river, find a target, fish, move....fish, move....set up for lunch, cook, eat.....FISH, MOVE.....its 5pm, out of waders, "eagle flies"...head my sorry butt home. Get home at 6;15ist....unload shore meal stuff, put away, CATHY HAS BEEN HELPING IN A BIG WAY!!!, check messages via phone, return calls....check computer: emails, return replies, check stocking reports, fishing forums.....now its around 8:30....hit the chair, try to watch the tube....phone rings...Yes the fishing is good....etc, etc....its 9:30ist.....watching the inside of my eye lids....down for the count. Alarm goes off....its 5am.....repeat all of above. Thats a fishing guides life. We love what we do, its a hard way to make a living but I would not want to do anything else....MOST DAYS.