So why DON'T you...

[Marco]

.......use guide services??

Recently I posted a topic "Do you use guide services?" 46 respondants with 1165 views. Of the 46, some did and some did not. Based on that "scientific" poling and some "deduction" , approximately 2% did. My curiosity is therefor sufficiently piqued to ask this additional question of the remaining 98%, Is it the: no need ( total disinterest in the concept), the cost, the ?tipping, pride or whatever? that causes them to not use these services.

Mark
PS: HONESTLY, answering my own question, it's a bit of PRIDE ( and of course, the" concept" follows that)

[Poke 'Em]

It's multi-fold. Firstly, I generally have little interest in fishing the kinds of waters that guides guide on. Secondly, I'm too cheap. Thirdly, I prefer the challenge of figuring things out on my own. Fourth, I believe guiding only helps to perpetuate the over-commercialization of our sport.

[Lotech]

Can't afford the gas to get to a river or stream that would warrant a guide. If I could scratch up the cash for the trip, I'm sure I couldn't afford the guide service. If I could afford the guide service, I'm sure I couldn't afford the tip. It's all becoming way too expensive. So, I choose to fish small lakes around my home with my pontoon or jon boat. Local is Good. Plus, whatever you do spend stays in your neighborhood. JMHO.

[flickfly]

I don't get to travel to fish - low budget upstate fishbum.

[DUB]

To have another person tie a fly onto my set-up? To have a person tell me where, when to cast? To have a person tell me when to set the hook? To have another person, put their arm on my shoulder, while I am holding a fish, and only then can a picture be taken? The thrill of another person netting my fish? No thanks. This is just me, but I will never use a guide to fish.

[DG]

$400 will pay for most of a 4- or 5-day trip to Montana for me, all expenses. Or I can give it to someone to row me down a river I could probably fish just as well from my own two feet. Not a tough decision. I don't NEED a guide, so why waste money on one?

[luckie88]

Wow! What you all just said!!! Those are all the reasons I would never hire a guide. I'd make friends with them and some local guides are friends, then we just simply go fishin. But the big one is the cost for a one day float I can make that kind of money last a whole lot longer and still catch fish on my own. Just heard a new one yesterday from a guide friend that took these jerkoffs out for the Salmon Flies on the Deschutes and there was some real D-bagery there. One of four was grabbing them off the bushes and sticking them with the hook and casting to start with, another guy cursing and yelling at other floaters and anglers the whole time. I'm surprised he didn't just leave them somewhere along the river! Moral of the story, seems like only jerkoffs use guide services. (Sarcastic)

[shortcaster]

On top of the obscene 'fee' they want, they expect a tip. Tip? Don't bet on slow horses.

[DUB]

I just ran across a guide that quotes Steve Martin and Johnny Carson. He's gotta be a winner!

[Marco]

Dub,
Perhaps I should have aimed a bit lower. My apologies/

Mark