THE LATEST NEWS and advice on fly fishing, fly fishing gear, fly fishing trips, and fly fishing books and media.When Guides Lose Their Religion
It is almost impossible to explain to someone who hasn't fully invested themselves in guiding for a number of years what being a good guide requires. Taking enormous energy and personal flexibility, it's simply one of those things that you won't fully understand until you live and breath it. Almost inevitably, a long-time guide begins to ask himself or herself "Why?" Coloradan Gary Hubbell guided for 20-odd years before recently deciding that he had given up enough. Here's his well-written explanation, complete with thanks to the horses.
