I am sorry for my poor choice of words when I said closer to two thousand. I don't have the receipt but as I recall the trip was around 1,200 and then went up from there. The add ons were for the tip (no problem), renting waders and boots (no problem), flies and tippet material used (bad taste in my mouth).

I certainly understand the difference between all inclusive pricing and pricing each individual item. We had a choice of rivers to fish and all would have been the same price - - we could have waded the Madison instead of floating the Yellowstone. Obviously floating was much more expensive for the guide, he drove us to the site, had to pay to have his truck moved, etc. We could have floated for two days instead of wading for one. So that part of this was 'fixed price' and we know we payed higher for the ability to make last minute decisions. We were OK with that. But that very thing is what made paying a few bucks extra at the end for flies and tippet seem kind of nickel and dime.