MHM: Guiding full-time and running a resort ... I’m sure people tell you you’re “living the dream.”
RM: I hear it a lot from people that it “must be awesome that you get to go fishing every day. Must be nice.” It’s everybody’s dream. But people come up here in the summer when it’s busy and they think they can move here and just go fishing, and hire people to run their business, and they’re gone in six to nine months. If you own a business up here and want to stay in business, you do a lot of the work yourself. I’ve watched a lot of people’s dreams come and go.
MHM: You work as hard as anybody I know. Tell us about a typical day during peak tourist season.
RM: We go seven days a week. There are no weekdays and weekends. A typical day in the summer, I get up between 4:30 and 5, and go through any emails as I’m waking up, drinking massive amounts of coffee. I pick up my [clients] between 6:30 and 7. Fish all day, get home somewhere between 4 and 4:30, straighten the boat up for the next day and maybe make equipment changes if we’re fishing for something else the next day, shower, then go to the restaurant for the dinner rush. Hopefully I get to leave by 8 or 8:30 provided I don’t have somebody at the bar wanting to tell me how awesome my life is.
MHM: How does musky fishing today in the region compare to when you started guiding?
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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