Learning to fish is best accomplished by study and finding a good teacher. I like the guide approach. However, you should hire a guide to teach you how to fish the way you can fish alone. If you have no boat, then hire a guide to teach you how to bank or pontoon fish effectively. Otherwise, you go for a boat ride and deal with techniques that don't necessarily apply to you.

You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a guide or two, so look around. Someone should be able and willing to teach you how to bank fish your local streams or rivers.