I recently read the post "What guides should expect from customers". I was going to reply to that post but it was locked. Customers also need to understand what to expect from the guide!

The last guided striper trip I took was for 1/2 day. The cost was $ 300 for two of us. We left the dock at 7:00 AM. By about 9:30 AM we had our limits. Some of the fish were barely legal. Part of the time we were fishing, the guide was on his cell phone discussing a deer hunt that afternoon?? He seemed more interested in the hunt than fishing!

When we had our limits the guide picked up and took us back to the dock! We were finished by about 10:00 AM. I have taken guided striper trips several times. This is the only time we fished less than 4 hours. The other trips we actually fished longer than 4 hours.

So in the future,in addition to the usual questions, I will ask the guide:

1. Are we going to fish 4 hours?

2. If we get our limit of stripers, will we fish for sand bass? If not, I would throw back the smaller stripers and continue to fish.

Surprisingly this guide is viewed as the best guide on this lake. But we left that morning feeling we had been short changed. I will not book another trip with this guide.

Pretty broad subject....

But what I have come to expect from them (as an observer not a customer) is to be .... a typical cross section of people as a whole....

Have met some who are great to talk to.... share fishing information, offer advice, and are considerate of others...

Have had others run up on me, move in to less than 30 yds. , start whipping the water with rods or raise their drive, so the drive mounted trolling motor is splashing.... that all attracts the fish ... right, at least they tell their customers that.

Have even heard one tell his customers to cast as close to my boat as possible so maybe I would leave..... Excuse ME..... I was here first.....

Then there are the ones that leave the cleaning station in such a mess that you can't help but spend 30 minutes cleaning up the area before you start on your own fish...

Straw

And there was a reason why it was locked ... Please read the rules

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