Guide shack pt 4 (meeting time)

Guide meeting starts when the dinner bell rings and lasts for 30minutes.  Oftentimes, the topics have already been discussed upon arrival back, but we try to save some for the meeting. In reality, guide meeting takes much more time than the 30 minutes that we put aside but its structure helps us move through it efficiently and accurately so that all are on the same page about what happened on the river that day.  To an outsider, we may seem to speak a different language that only we understand.  Lots of river rights and lefts, below the 2nd pyramid rock, or “2-rod lengths below the spikey tree with his body”. On the days when there isn’t as much to say (poor fishing) we discuss boating lines for navigating the river, overanalyze our small successes and rationalize failures.  We talk of places we can check tomor, or adjust the beats for the next day to give everyone a fair slice.