Catching Fish

It has always been a joke with my family that if there is someone who pays a guide to take them out fishing and never catches any fish it is me, the infamous fisheries biologist.  I have spent 1000's of dollars all around the Caribbean, Mexico, and Oregon trying to catch many kinds of fish with only marginal success.

Well my luck finally changed last week.  I had booked a guide in Tillamook Bay to fish for Chinook salmon. I was just going by myself but then he called me and said he had to go to a meeting and could he schedule me with another guy.  I said sure and showed up in Girabaldi at the appointed time.  The stars must have been right because we caught seven Chinook ranging up to 38 pounds.  What a fun day.  I was sure the jinx had been broken and went out with friends and our old guide the next day.  Not a bite.  Maybe all this time it was the guide's fault, not mine.