I very rarely say anything on line but I have to chime in here. Guide licensing in Alberta BAD IDEA. First of all 90% of the guys can't agree on more than anything for more than 5 mins, but you expect people who are in competing business to buddy up? I owned a construction company for 10 years and never had any good dealings anyone in my field except for 1 and we are now partners. You ask for guide course? Who pays for them who runs them? First aid courses aren't free either. Special boat license plates that now govt involement that isn't gonna be cheap. So we have all heard how there "full time guides" don't make alot off coin believe me if they did it would be chosen line of work, but they don't. So how much more is gonna cost a guide per year run his business? who does that get passed along to the consumer. Which in these economic times I think having to raise the cost of a float 100/day is gonna effect the amount trips booked a year. You would also open the can of worms of gst now. Any company making over 30 000 per year is required to collect and submit gst. I bet you the guide tip goes down. again less money being made by the guides. And all these so called full time guides come on every one of them has a winter gig. There maybe seasonal guides but i dont see many boats in the bow in nov/dec. I too am a weekend warrior guide I have enjoyed takin some people out for there first time on the bow hell sometimes there first fish. I don't make the regular guide rate the people i take can't afford it. But I love it and can see no way in which I am taking any money out any ones pockets.
f you wanna do something positive for the resource. Pick up the trash you see, use proper fish handling and call rapp when u see dumb sh t going on.