Guides say cost of Coast Guard plan is too steep

[News]

Fishing guides on many lakes across northern Minnesota would have to be fingerprinted and spend up to $1,300 on federal exams to help their clients catch walleyes under a new U.S. Coast Guard policy.

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[tangled mess]

If the guides can not pass the test and background test and drug screen should they be aloud to take people out? What is the problem your getting payed to take people out how would $1300 put you out of business?

[Walleye Express]

If the guides can not pass the test and background test and drug screen should they be aloud to take people out? What is the problem your getting payed to take people out how would $1300 put you out of business?

Ditto. If $1,300.00 is going to bankrupt you. And the time spent getting your business leagally licensed and insured to much of a hassle. What happens when little Johnny falls in your boat and his parents sue you for the 3 Grand to replace his front teeth.

[Priority1]

Ditto. If $1,300.00 is going to bankrupt you. And the time spent getting your business leagally licensed and insured to much of a hassle. What happens when little Johnny falls in your boat and his parents sue you for the 3 Grand to replace his front teeth.

3 grand:lol: Call Lee Free, and he will get you 50 times that much.

[Nailer]

$1,300/5= $260 per year.

At $$260 a year the cost isn't much. I know a guide that couldn't pass the exam any more. The reality is, he shouldn't be guiding in his condition.

It's for the safety of the general public.