smilesforu,
Now hold on just a minute. You are certainly entitled to your 2cents but I must take exception to a couple of things you said.

First, it's a mighty big assumption on your part to say that people who fish with guides wouldn't be able to get their fish without them. That's probably true of some but definately not all. I'd like to see you back that statement up with fact.

Second, the guides do not kill fish day after day. Those fish belong to the clients and are counted toward their annual limit. Sounds pretty simple but you don't seem to understand that. If we apply your logic to the guiding industry as a whole, deer hunting guides would only be able to guide one successful client per year. Same with elk guides, bear guides, etc. Gosh, someone who guides for moose, goat or sheep in this state could only have a successful client once in their lifetime. This (il)logic would extend to any fish or game for which there is an annual or seasonal limit.

The bottom line is that guiding is a business like any other. You offer a service for a price. If it's a legal service and there is a demand for that service then you have the potential for success. I certainly don't think it's right to slam someone for doing this. If you don't want to fill your annual limit then that's your choice.If someone else does and they are within the law, then that is their legal priviledge whether guided or not. Don't like that law? Change it.

I fail to understand the logic that finds it OK to target a run or species, that trained biologists have determined can't support a fishery, as long as you're going to release them. Then in the next breath attacking people who choose to bonk a fish in a fishery where bonking a fish is perfectly legal. This is elitism at it's worst.If someone breaks the law that is one thing. If they choose to exercise their legal right or priviledge who the hell are we to badmouth them for it. Don't like the law? Change it!