In 2023, Cameron Pappas decided to take a leap of faith and quit his full-time job at a bank to make his part-time job leading fishing trip charters a full-time gig.
He had founded BlackBird Guide Services six years ago and built it from the ground up, running it entirely by himself.
“My ultimate goal is just to be a respectable business owner and a modest fisherman because the whole reason I got into it was just because I love the outdoors,” Pappas said. “And more than that, I like showing people the outdoors.”…