The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
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by Greg Brush
The long faces in my boat told the story quite clearly: disappointment had set in, attitudes were faltering and my guests were mentally giving up. The sad fact was that we had covered over eight miles of river, fished for seven hours, only seen two king salmon landed all day and had had nary a bump. As a Kenai River guide with two decades of experience, I had been in this predicament before, yet there was little I could do to combat it now, other than deploy my standard exclamations of “It beats working” and “welcome to the Kenai!”
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