And just when I thought it impossible for the Feds to make a more ridiculous rule, they did it! Assume you are a flyfishing guide on Alaska rivers and are invited to go halibut fishing on a friend's boat (despite the new law turning good manners into violations) someone MUST have a Halibut Charter License aboard! And it must be considered a Chartered trip... Coming back around that means the boat must be licensed commercially and driven by someone with a Coast Guard license!

That means a flyfishing guide cannot fish for halibut unless he is alone on his own boat! No family allowed either!

art off to write yet another letter to those that should care...