I think that wanting to be a guide is the same as someone wanting to be a school teacher, you do not do it for the money. You do it because you like to teach and you enjoy seeing others succeed. I am not a guide nor a teacher and i do enjoy hauling in a 40+lb blue, but i get more excited when someone in my boat catches the biggest fish of thier lives. I think if you have that mentality, you will be just fine.

Thats what Im SKEEERED of, hate to turn it into a JOB

If you don't think its a job, think again, get up a couple of hours earlier to ensure bait. Sometimes you are in the boat with some ahole or very disorderly child and stay for a day.
Stay an extra hour cleaning up the table, coolers, and the boat. Then go home an work on all thats tore up from the previous day. About the time its going real good, counting that stack of cash. The motor, your trailer, truck, or boat mess up bad. Along with batteries, graphs, GPS, R&R, and other expensive things to replace but necessary to have.
Most guides are making a living or what resembles one.

Ive thought about this for years but didnt want to ruin what I love. Thats why Ive been debating guiding or getting a license to sell fish. I can catch fish, love to teach, its just all the bs with some people and the pressure when the fish just dont want to bite I know everyone has THEM DAYS.


Thats the worst of it all, besides the foul weather, being cold, wet, hot, insects, being out on the water when you don't really feel good, or sick.

Nothing better than taking three people and catching a triple limit, then cleaning 75 fish.

Catching bait, putting up with folks, cleaning fish, and cleaning things up to start over the next day, its just all in days work.
So long as I can I will continue to guide and fish on my off days. I really like it.

This business is not for everybody. Start on a part time basis, don't go overboard on advertising. Its a slow building process.