Can of Worms

[cmcnabb]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

That's the price of doing business. A man that is in the tree cutting business has to buy trucks, ropes, saws, gas, harnesses AND be licensed and bonded. If you don't want to run a bidness den go get a job and work for da man.

P.S. You DO have to have a captains license to take hunters hunting in a boat if you use navigatble waterways!

The point I was making was there is a high price for doing business when guiding hunting trips, and it's only for a few months a year. And a man in the tree cutting business works year round, a very good friend of mine owns a tree service and is highly successful. I wasn't complaining about the price to do business, just making a point that its already a high overhead and having to pay for a license that essentially won't do a damn thing is pointless. The good guides are very successful and can make a nice profit in those few months a year, not enough to support you all year but if your self employed and can swing two jobs during hunting season, it can be rewarding. I have no interest in guiding, I would rather pay for a lease with the money I make working for da man and hunt with my friends. Thanks for clearing up the captains license thing, I didn't know about the navigable waterways.

[grizzon30s]

I'm a small government guy for sure. But saying that hunting guides are different from fishin guides bc of cost of business doesn't hold water with me. Putting in place a set of safety requirements should have nothing to do with a biz owners other costs. I think anything put in place should be extremely affordable. If a guy can't pay a couple hundred bucks or so for some sort of license, he does not have a viable biz anyway.
And btw there are guides taking people on public land in LA. They do it in the basin and in catahoula lake for sure. I think that is ridiculous but is a topic for a different thread.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by grizzon30s

I'm a small government guy for sure. But saying that hunting guides are different from fishin guides bc of cost of business doesn't hold water with me. Putting in place a set of safety requirements should have nothing to do with a biz owners other costs. I think anything put in place should be extremely affordable. If a guy can't pay a couple hundred bucks or so for some sort of license, he does not have a viable biz anyway.
And btw there are guides taking people on public land in LA. They do it in the basin and in catahoula lake for sure. I think that is ridiculous but is a topic for a different thread.

That's true WMAs, NWRs, its a no-no though. Pretty sure the locals make the rules in Henderson and Catahoula