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114 Days as a First-Time Fishing Guide on Haida Gwaii

Season 2 of the Wild Ways Podcast is here, and we're back to weekly episodes.

After eight months off air, I'm sharing where I've been. This spring I got the chance to go to Haida Gwaii and spend the summer as a fishing guide at one of the best-known fishing lodges in Canada. I'd fished the ocean my whole life but had never been paid to take people out. That turned into 114 days of 14-hour days, big kings, and a lot of learning.

In this episode:

- Getting dropped into a remote lodge and learning the water in the first 10 days

- Why guiding is "a marathon, not a race" and how I got through the…

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