game-set-match my ass!

Let me clarify...I'm not a paying customer. My roots to Soldotna extend back far greater than your "1500" trips. I have my own boats and my own accomodations (on the river)

I'll take a lot of the locals who aren't even guides over any out-of-state guide, yourself included. While you spend your "1500" trips running up and down the lower river, the locals are learning every square inch to the mouth at Skilak.

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So when I bust-a-nut on the topic of the kenai, specifically out-0f-state guides, who send their Kenai generated dollars back home to Washington, it's for good reason. I know a lot of locals, and local guides who share my beliefs about the opportunists who come from Wash. and Ore., and some (not all) don't know the river from their ass, and have no etiquette (specifically what is a "drift" hole and what is a "backtrolling" hole) But if you haven't been there for more than one year, you wouldn't know that.

I'm sure you're a fine guide, and I don't want to insult you, but when I see the Kenai today and then 30 years ago, I get sick to my stomach. Specifically that any dingus with a boat can get a license to guide.

As far as the size of the Keani King being more alluring than the Gulkana's numbers or the Klutina's numbers and size. I'll argue all day long with you. I see what goes on on that river. I talk to the guides and see the numbers they bring back on a "daily" basis.
I see the waste of big dollars chasing the VERY allusive 60-70lb king.

Sure I catch 60's and occasionally a 70...but your paying customers don't very often. Instead they sit in the boat and get POUNDED by wakes all day, in what is more likely the dream catch of 35lbs. (which they could have caught and released ALL FRIGGIN DAY LONG on the Gulkana and Klutina.) (I've caught and released 50's on the Klutina all day, and they were bright as light. So in terms of "experience", there's no comparison to the Kenai vs. a trip inland (the Kenai bites)

And that was initially my point, and I'm sorry I digressed. But if you're driving up in June, take your time and fish on the way. And don't be fooled, there's brite daddies in them thar rivers. Conversely, there's tomato cans in the Kenai. You might get a 60lb chromer, but then again, you probably won't... and if you do, it might just look a bit rosey.

No offense dude, just one man's opinion.