We need ratings system for Montauk guides

[kamasfly]

We need to have an honest rating system for fly guides in Montauk. We have so many sites for rating named restaurants but hardly any information on the outstanding versus mediocre guides in Montauk. What's your view? My experience has been hit and miss.

[searobyn]

Check out www.TheAnglingPost.com........gives you guide ratings for many guides across the country as well as ratings on lodges, etc.....

Pretty good site!!! Good luck, as a guide out east I know it can be tough!!!

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[Perch]

If their names are Amanda, Steve (please don’t call him “Mr. Switzer”), David, Paul, Robin, Bryan, Matt, Ernie, Dino, Brendan, Jim, Jim, Kenny, Ken or Bill, they’re top shelf! Hire them! They’re as good as guides get! Sorry if I’ve forgotten someone good. But FOR GOD'S SAKE stay away from R. Scott and E. Willi! (Hey R. Scott and E. Willi: If your phones don’t ring, it’ll be me again.) Read about R. Scott on the Angling Post. E. Willi is literally too awful for words; that’s why he’s not even written up. He’d have to get lots better just to be bad.

[kamasfly]

Thanks for the info. Below are rating metrics that would seem useful.



Fly Guide Metrics

Knowledge of area
Safety
Boat rating-Flats boats don't belong in Montauk during the Fall
Communication
Flies used
Timeliness
Ability to position boat for optimal casting and catching
On water manners with other guides and busting fish
Personality


I'm sure there are other factors

[JGH]

Ballsy first post.

[browndog]

Word of mouth is more reliable than a glossy website. You might try sending a p.m. to people that post regarding you're area of interest. There's a chance you'll run into someone who has an axe to grind, so get as many opinions as you can.

[Perch]

http://www.theanglingpost.com/posts/read.php?5,458,458#msg-458

[Breezy Loon]

Hold on there Mister Perch,isn't true that E. Willi is one of your illigitimate children fatherd by you when you were a dry fly fishing trout purist. And as for demeaning the Scottish Race mon, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[Perch]

Aye. Busted.

[Breezy Loon]

Achh, you're a better person for admitting your indiscretions. Now for a more important matter, do you and your fancy pants Montauk guides forsee any of them whatdoyoucallem albies in my future on wednesday. Fishing with the one called Dino!!

[Perch]

If you can talk Dino into returning to Jupiter, Fla. today and netting some pilchards tomorrow. a.m., and if you join him there, I absolutely GUARANTEE that you will catch albies. Otherwise tell him that bass were at Caswells yesterday, swimming in chocolate milk but eating. I will see you out there for the outgoing. I’ll be fishing with E. Willi. He’s the only guide who wasn’t booked. In fact, he wasn’t booked for any other day this fall. I think I know why.

[Breezy Loon]

Ah,chumming for those trash fish bonito down in those southern climes, somehow it just doesn't appeal. Glad to see that you and E. Willi have reconciled your differennces, I know his adolescent years were particularly difficult on you both. Looking forward to seeing you on the water.

[Perch]

Hi Breezy: Saw you out there today struggling as hard as I was. Hard day, no? E. Willi called the boat traffic at the point a “cluster [whatever].” He wanted no part of it. But he saluted Dino and you for toughing it out. He also saw you way down by town, just sitting by the beach; but he said that something must have happened there because there was quite a flotilla, inc. Dixon. He let me take a few casts with the fast-sinker to hundreds of schoolies at 35 feet off the radar tower. But he tired of that in about ten minutes. Said he’d “rather go shopping than dredge for schoolies.” The only time he expressed interest in anything was at the news that Amanda got a striper that coughed up a baby weakfish. The rest of the day he just cruised, burning lots of gas (‘cause it was my boat) and whining about the good and therefore fishless weather, the departure of the albies and the nasty sandwich I’d provided for him. (When I made it for him a month a go it was a good one; but he wouldn’t eat it then. So I froze it.)