Grateful for Another Successful Season!
by Capt Juls on 10/16/16My 2016 season is over. I sell my Rangers every fall and order a new one for the next season, so the 2016 Ranger went home to its new owner back on October 6th. The new 621/G2 is in the order process as I write this. Woot! Woot!
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all my sponsors who make it possible for me to be my own boss and have the best job ever! My dreams wouldn't have come true without you all!
Ranger Boats, Evinrude, Minn-Kota, Humminbird, Off Shore Tackle, Vic's Sports Center, EZEESteps, RS Nets, Bandit Lures, Bomber Lures, Smithwick Lures, Costa Sunglasses, World Wide Marine Insurance, and The Jewelry Mechanic
While being a fishing guide takes a ton of hard work, passion, and dedication, I can't think of anything I would rather be doing. Getting up early, and watching the sun come up with my customers is always a good way to start the day!
I have been fortunate in that all of my customers over the past 5 years have been truly wonderful people, and whom I have had the pleasure of fishing with, and getting to know.
While I do not have much of a social life, due to the fact that I go to bed before the sun goes down, and get up long before the sun comes up, I don't mind one bit.
My customers are my "social life", and that suits me just fine. I wouldn't change a thing!
The 2017 bookings are looking great, and I have the last week of March through April already booked solid. May is almost full now too, but there are still 10 openings in May that are available for anyone looking to book a spring trip.
June and July offer more stable weather (usually), and trips up into Canadian waters, where we chase the big girls that are moving off the spawning areas. But, there are still fish on the US side, for those that do not want to go over.
Going into Canada only requires one of the following for my customers to enter:
Passport
copy of a birth certificate
Or, a Passport Card
That, and a Ontario Fishing License (Sportsman's allows a 6 fish limit, while the Conservation lic only allows 2 fish, so buy the correct one) And, yes, you would also need the Ohio fishing license, because that's where we launch from.
I'll be working at the Humane Society of Ottawa County again this winter, to pass the time until the new boat arrives sometime in February, and start there tomorrow.
I'm hoping for a warm winter, so we can be back on the water in early March, like we were this past winter. (Sorry ice fishermen, but I don't want you out there taking all those big girls staging up for the spawn...lol)
So, until I have another "Random Thought"....;)
Stay tuned...
Capt Juls
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