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By By Brent Frazee, McClatchy Newspapers
BRANSON, Mo. (MCT) - Years ago, Carolyn Parker never would have pictured herself where she was Thursday - floating down Lake Taneycomo in her drift boat, getting paid to go fishing.
At the time, she was a longtime employee of the Bayer Corp. in Kansas City, stuck in the "daily grind," as she called it. And though she loved to fly fish, she never imagined a day when she would be a guide.
Guiding? That was man's work - or at least, so the common thinking went.
"Guys who are in their 60s come from an era when people thought, 'Girls just don't do that type of thing...