One important thing to keep in mind is that tournament fishing and guiding are two totally different ways of fishing. The pressure is totally different too. In tournaments YOU are paying to fish, and when you guide people are paying YOU to catch fish. A guide usually has a lot less time to produce fish than in a tournament, and they are usually dealing with people that are a lot less patient than a tournament angler like yourself.
Guiding is 20% catching fish and 80% people management skills. You have to know how to enterain when the fish are not biting. Good communication skills are very important. I have fished with some awesome guides and their ability to communicate with their clients is one of the most important aspects of creating a quality experience.
Most guides will tell you that when the fishing is good it is an awesome job to have, but when it is bad you are left wondering what went wrong.
Keep working with her and passing along your fishing skills. There are a lot of great guides on this site and others that can give her advice on what she needs to do to make it should she follow that dream.
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