Originally Posted by
Nitro.Bass
Here's my issue with tipping guides, and those of you who are guides take no offense, or feel free to, it's up to you. Whether I pay $250 a day for you to take me fishing on Lake Fork Texas or $4000 for you to work to find me a good Elk or whatever, that's the agreed amount for the service. To expect a gratuity is just not right. If I choose, so be it, but I rarely choose to do so unless something was exceedingly above my expectations for what I have already paid.
I don't know a single guide that operates under the "expectation" of a tip. Almost every guide from day one in the field is instructed to never expect a tip, if they don't get one, thats no dissappointment, if they do, it is greatly appreciated. It's kind of an 'insider" philosophy in guide circles. I posted the 15% to cover guides/wranglers/cooks, as an industry norm, not as a requirement. If we go back and look at the last 200 clients, thats were the percentages would fall. I don't have those numbers frankly, nor do I track such things, I'm just pushing out the industry norm.