You don't pay a mechanic to work on his car
You don't pay a chef to eat your food
You don't pay plumber to fix his toilet
I guess I'm missing something here, in my mind the guide is supposed to 'GUIDE" you on where and how to catch fish, not to let you watch him catch fish.
Kungfoogrip
Don't know which video you are referring to but as a former guide I have been on both ends of this scenario. I have fished with guys that couldn't hit the water with their cast. I have fished with guys that had equal or better skills than I. The guides never know what they're gonna get.
The analogies you used above are not exactly apple to apples. Some days the fish are more aggressive and will pretty much hook themselves. Other days, the fish have to be finessed.
There are some excellent guides available especially on Fork. 99% of them want you to catch the fish and have the best day possible.
I fished with a gentleman once on a Coon Creek Lake Shelton near Athens TX. I knew about the legendary Coon Creek and had high expectations of our day. The man I was with had the reputation for being the best fisherman on Coon Creek. We hit the water at daylight, ran up the lake to some grassbeds he had been fishing. We started with topwaters and boated a 4-5 fish. This was in September.
He told me the best fishing had been in the deeper brushpiles on T-rigged soft plastics but that was after the sun got up. I thought, makes sense to me. Once the topwater bite subsided, we ran back down the lake and started throwing worms at brush piles in 8-10' of water.
At 10 am we had 3 fish on our worms. They just weren't biting the worm so I dug around in my bag and pulled out a pack of 4" Storm Wildeye swimbaits in shad color. Coon Creek doesn't allow outside boats so I didn't have a lot of tackle with me. I tied on a shad colored swimbait and started catching fish. After five fish, I gave him one and we both started catching them and catch them we did.
At 1:45 we decided to go eat lunch. He kept a fish counter on his belt and every time we would boat a fish he would click it. When we loaded the boat to go eat he showed me the clicker. It said 107. So between 10 am and 1:45 pm we caught almost 100 fish, many of them 4-5 pounds.
I tell this story to make a point. There is no doubt in my mind that had we kept throwing a worm we may have finished out the day with 15-20 fish. By doing something different, we killed them. Swimbaits were not in his arsenal.
You want the guide to fish when you hire him. The bite changes from day to day. The technique that crushed them the day before, may not work today. Unless you fish every day, you cannot develop that sixth sense that many of the pros have about what to do for any given situation.
When I guided at Fork, I would fish pretty hard until we had the pattern dialed in then sit my rod down and unhook fish for my clients and help them retie and coach them. If they hung up and broke off I would hand them another rod while I re-rigged theirs. I made them drink water and put on sunscreen too. For a nominal fee I would rub it on them.
That's what a good guide does for their clients. Of course this is only my opinion. That and $6 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.....