10-30-2007, 06:10 PM
In reply to your question about the behavior of guides I believe that there are respectable guides and there are a few that make a bad reputation for all guides. I have an incident that illustrates:
Six of us buddies (on a self guided trip) were fishing in a remote area of Alaska near the Copper River Delta, and a helicopter landed just around a bend and down river from us. As we motored our little boat down the river to investigate we encountered a helicopter on a gravel bar in the river. It was a guide and his clients. The guide ran to us and asked us to immediately leave because his clients had paid him money to provide them with solitude and awesome salmon fishing, and we were distracting from that experience. I was incredulous as to the words I was hearing. We gave the guide and his clients their space but we fished within their view.
We later recounted the incident to the bush pilot that transported us into the remote area, and he had nothing good to say about this guide.
From the perspective of a paying client I would expect my guide to protect my interests and do all he legally could to put me on the fish...even if it meant asking for space or crowding other fisherman.
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Six of us buddies (on a self guided trip) were fishing in a remote area of Alaska near the Copper River Delta, and a helicopter landed just around a bend and down river from us. As we motored our little boat down the river to investigate we encountered a helicopter on a gravel bar in the river. It was a guide and his clients. The guide ran to us and asked us to immediately leave because his clients had paid him money to provide them with solitude and awesome salmon fishing, and we were distracting from that experience. I was incredulous as to the words I was hearing. We gave the guide and his clients their space but we fished within their view.
We later recounted the incident to the bush pilot that transported us into the remote area, and he had nothing good to say about this guide.
From the perspective of a paying client I would expect my guide to protect my interests and do all he legally could to put me on the fish...even if it meant asking for space or crowding other fisherman.
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