Tom Rowland Podcast

I got a question here asking what are the top 5 ways to be successful as a fishing guide. I am going to start at number 5 and work my way up, I’m sure if I got together with some other guides we could come up with way more, but here are my top 5:  5. Be professional - I wish when I started out that I understood that being a Fishing Guide was a business and that I treated it as such. I thought it was something I would do for a summer and didn’t think of it as a place of business where I needed to show up in a professional manner and be professional with my customers. There are very high profile people with plenty of money but little time. You are trusted with their most valuable asset and you should present yourself professionally. With this in mind marketing is very important and I wish that (if I could go back) I would have studied more marketing in school.  4. It’s not the biggest or the most - success as a fishing guide is not that you catch the biggest or the most fish. The most important thing you can