But after 25 years of fishing on the LRR and over 40 years fishing in total I have never seen the amount of guides with a "god" complex as I have seen in the past 6 mos. I don't know who died and made these guides the kings of the river? The Little Red, along with every other river in Arkansas, is there for the general public and not there just for the guides to make a living. Nothing against guides making a living, I did some guiding in my day, but there needs to be some attitudes put in check. There are a few, and they know who they are, that think everyone on the river should bow down to them and not come anywhere close to them while they are fishing and if you're in the spot they want to be in they will pull up and literally cast right over your line. If they continue to show their arses, then they will quickly figure out how good they had it. Not a threat, but there are several of us that will simply not show any respect in the future. To be clear on no respect, that means on the river, off the river, and on the Google.
Let me give you some examples:
1) To the guide that thinks he is so awesome that he has his own parking spot at the top of the ramp at dripping springs, walk yourself the extra 20 feet to park where everyone else parks so your truck is not in the way of everyone else coming off the river.
2) To the guide that thinks he is the boating police and got a little wake when we went as slow as possible by him in high water, bite your lip and go home and cry to your momma.
3) To the guide that thinks he is the spokesman for the brown trout in the river during the spawn, why don't you move to Alaska, no one fishes at spawning fish there.
4) To the guide that thinks he owns Beach Island, well you don't.
5) To the guide that thinks he owns Jack's Shoal and if there's wade fisherman there it's ok to pull his boat right next to them and tell HIS CLIENTS to cast over the wade fisherman's line, just do that one more time, please do that one more time.
There's a storm brewing and it will get ugly if the b.s. doesn't stop.
