Sometimes you have to call it like it is. Simple. Martin from Scotland had this week reserved with me to lure fish along the Wexford coast - 6 days bass fishing. After much deliberation and discussion with Martin I felt that spending a week in Wexford bass fishing under current conditions was not what the fishery was about and so we canceled his trip.
This is never an easy decision but based on experiences, forecasts and the current conditions I would not have felt comfortable to take Martin as a guided customer. It goes back to the quality of the experience, I'm sure Martin could have come here and battled through six days of wind, brown and green weedy water and very unsettled weather and maybe even managed a fish or two who knows? But gone away with what exactly?
Given the opportunity and information, if the customer can absorb minimal costs and work/home/life considerations, then he can weigh up the options and say - lets do it next year! This doesn't happen very often and its a difficult time when it does. There is always a niggling doubt as regards the right decision.It impacts on my bottom line and others too. Of course people say I'm mad, and a customer can hear of reports of fish caught - (bigger and more numbers than ever, naturally) reports magnified in dimensions by disappointment, when the reality is so different.
To relate my decision making to the current weather forecasts go to these links HERE and HERE from 2008
So a weeks guiding canceled, Saturdays and Sundays workshop liable to be canceled, it all makes it a very challenging and interesting work environment.
Looking forward to 2011 already and thanks too to Martin.
