I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you Robert Allen3. If Joe Schmuck from Des Moines, Iowa comes to town and hires a guide with two of his buddies for the day he is not out there to learn how to catch salmon/steelhead/sturgeon/whatever. He is out there to CATCH FISH, and probably KEEP FISH. He cannot catch chinook, steelhead, or sturgeon where he's from so that's why he's fishing.

A guide SHOULD ask his party if they mind if he fishes with them to up the chances of catching fish, and respect his clients answer.

Handing off the rod, be it from a guide to a customer or a private party handing off to a private party, has a lot of potential grey area. One can say that it should be assumed that when a rod is handed off from party A to party B that party B's original rod is now under the control of party A.

The guide should be the last person in the boat fishing, as when the customer limits out then his line is out of the water.

*EDIT* Damnit, if they didn't interrupt me with work around here I wouldn't have been one-upped by Sauk.

[ 06-27-2001: Message edited by: fobbman ]