How much do you tip a guide for a day's services? I'm not asking how much you SHOULD tip, WANT TO tip or WOULD tip you can afford it. How much really comes out of your pocket? Guides: How much do you get - high, low, average?
:hmmm:Same breath:hmmm:Pretty interesting topic and responses. I've only used a guide twice when I was much younger and I believe my father tipped the guides around $40 or so. Nowadays, after learning to fly fish, I don't even consider using a guide. It seems like cheating to me............., I believe you should be prepared to tip based on good service performed (15%-20%).
It was a joke, referring to the fact that you mentioned that you don't use guides and believe it takes away from the spirit of the sport, then discuss the proper etiquette of tipping guides.I get your point. Although I'm not sure about the "same breath" part.
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If the guide pilots the boat, hands me a store-bought sandwich, and doesn't do much else, that makes for a fee-simple day.
If I come away from the trip with a better understanding of the game, or an insight or angle that I hadn't explored or considered, I tip.
He didn't have to do that, but he did, and I show my appreciation in the universal language of cash.
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wait just a minute....what the heck do you mean "he didn't have to do that". Yes he did. What you are talking about is the definition of true guiding. Anything less than that isn't guiding, and isn't worth the money in the first place. Are you implying that only lousy service should be untipped?
Totally true if you are a kickass client, someone I'd love to fish with anyway tipping is not expected, although those clients usually tip the best wich is a double bonus...I have a hard time believing that a guide is going to look down on a $10 tip from a guy that says he has always dreamed of a guided trip and has saved for a year to do it, he is throwing a 20 year old rod and you know that $10 is alot for that guy.