Cowlitz. The game law states that you cannot harvest another persons daily limit for them. The key word hear would be harvest. I did not see this word defined in the game law but suspect you could get into some real hair splitting with this one. Personally I think that if the rod is handed off with in the same boat and that person then fights and lands the fish they harvest the fish not the person who handed off the rod. With the amount of guides that fish this way, it must be ok under the game laws or the warden would be one busy dude on the cowlitz.

I agree with the others about it being the clients choice as to whether or not they will take the handed off rod and personally don't see much difference between this and a client reeling in a fish that hit a plug pulled through a sweet slot by a guide while the client scarfs down pastries and sips on coffee.

peace out