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on a boat for hire you have to have at least a 6 pack lic from the coast guard, for a guides licence, I don't think Massashusetts has rules.

So if you've got a boat, i've got 6pack and have no problem telling people
"Thats why they call it fishing not catching, gimme the money!!"

Capesams

I have owned Basic Boston Fishing & Sightseeing for three years now. We offer guided shore fishing trips, A professional boat fishing guide service, and now charter fishing trips.

MA has no license or regs for shore guides. You are legally responsible for income tax if under your SS# or all the small business taxes & reporting if under an 04#. Though not required to do this without liability is dow right stupid. I know of one Shore guide that lost his car and had to move do to a client that fee and broke his leg. FYI...there is no such thing as a release that will stand up in court for an unregulated business.

Boat guides are also unregulated. You need no license to go on anothers boat and charge them to instruct them or do the fishing for them. Taxes and reporting of income is the same as on shore guides. Please note, you may not touch any navigational equipment on the boat. If you get on the customers boat and teach them how to fish period, you are a guide. The second you touch a switch, a throttle or a wheel, you need at least an OUVP captains license.

If someone is coming out on your own boat or if you are going on someone else's and touch the controls, you need at lease the OUPV captains license.

I hope this helps

please ------- no more guides bringing out-of staters to the seashore. we don't need the traffic on the roads or the sand. there are other ways to make a few bucks.

Working at my second job last nite, which gives me lot's of time to think
Who knew you worked at all?:laughs: Hey bud.

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Originally posted by J-golden
please ------- no more guides bringing out-of staters to the seashore. we don't need the traffic on the roads or the sand. there are other ways to make a few bucks.

I guess the saying "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" is CapeSams new slogan!:D

CS You'd be a good guide .. I trade you Barter Town Tour... your getting the best of it ,, I don't care ..

Maybe it's me but somehow this thread seems directed at somebody, thinly veiled and not in a nice way. Hmmm, who could that be?

J. Golden's statement makes no sense at all. If you have a talent, in this case fishing, shouldn't you be allowed to capitilize on it, meaning make it pay by bringing some one who does not have the skill, where-with-all to cruise the beach and experience something he may have ownly read about? Free enterprise.

Anyway, maybe you only fish in very crowded places like the canal and such and have formed your opinion thusly. I appreciate that as I once was one of the biggest canal rats there were but the place is not the canal I knew just ten years ago and I want no part of it even though I miss it a great deal. On the other hand there are lots of places now that I fish where you hardly see anyone and there are plenty of fish and it's no where near as taxing on the equipment or body. :smokin:

Flaptail, you don't see me criticizing your columns???? i understand you need to fill an article each month, and you'll give up certain spots. do i like it, hell no; but why add to the insanity? i mean, just a few short years ago, certain outer cape spots could be fished without competing with all the newbies; and everyone knows exactly where i'm talking about (if you don't, you will eventually). i'm sure i passed plenty of the same people on the beach many times, in the past 20, on these same beaches. i'm not pointing fingers at anyone in particular; but don't you think it's getting crowded enough out there? when you get to that sandy point, tide just right, on the third week of october, and you find it covered up with guys that just came from the walmart fishing section, that sucks.:(

Do you remember when you started out? Maybe you got a royal invitation to the secret holes and specially anointed to close the door on anyone else coming to fish here on Cape, I dunno. Always gonna be "newbies" ( BTW, that's a term only newbies use) and 20 years just makes you a middleschooler in this game. Anyway, blow your cool if it makes you feel any better I got bigger fish to fry. Everyone thinks they own these spots, it's just so much horse#^&#^&#^&#^&. When my specially painted Aquaskinz top shows up you will know it's me, it's got a target on the back. Also, I don't need to "fill an article" I do it cause I want to, after all, fishing for bass for 30 odd years allows me this indiscretion. You want no crowds then get out and walk the parking lot beaches more than a half mile from the lot. That's where the real fishing is anyway on the outer Cape. Toodles!

:rolleyes:

When there were no fish(early 80's) there wern't as many people fishing and there was great stuff at yard sales.. The catch has dropped off and the fishing will be lousy again someday .. They'll be plenty of room then and rods sticking up in the air at every yard sale,, Thanks for making me think of that ..bumming .. On the Guide thing .. Do they still have Orvis Guides ? and how are they set up .. ? Might be worth a call and ask as a potenal customer ..

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No Guide questions pleeeez .. add that to list of other things we don't talk about ..

Originally posted by Flaptail
Do you remember when you started out? Maybe you got a royal invitation to the secret holes and specially anointed to close the door on anyone else coming to fish here on Cape, I dunno. Always gonna be "newbies" ( BTW, that's a term only newbies use) and 20 years just makes you a middleschooler in this game. Anyway, blow your cool if it makes you feel any better I got bigger fish to fry. Everyone thinks they own these spots, it's just so much horse#^&#^&#^&#^&. When my specially painted Aquaskinz top shows up you will know it's me, it's got a target on the back. Also, I don't need to "fill an article" I do it cause I want to, after all, fishing for bass for 30 odd years allows me this indiscretion. You want no crowds then get out and walk the parking lot beaches more than a half mile from the lot. That's where the real fishing is anyway on the outer Cape. Toodles!

:rolleyes:


Gee..........I have 43 odd years, fishin' for BASS. Does that make me a Square Sponge Pants Bob schooler or just a Squidly? I'll share my limited knowledge with anyone........PRIVATELY! I don't need to do it in an open publication, either for financial gain or to just puff me up. If a person is truly interested in learnin' to fish, they will search out the info. If they're just slummin', they'll go to some fishin' rag or website. And there will be some selfinflated spot burner to help them in their quest. Magazines and other media should give techniques[sp] and general information. They don't need to direct Norman Nimrod to someplace I been fishin' for 40 odd yrs. If he happens upon me and asks, I will be happy to help , any way I'm able. If his opening remark is, I read about this place in a article by H n' R Puffin' fish, and he starts to set up 50 feet down current from me with bait and eight . Me and he is gonna has an issue. Right after that, me an H n' R, gonna have one. Thankyou and have a swellday. Time to go watch Ruppert!

Amber :humpty:

Where are you my friend? .... the baby boomer experts don`t have anywhere near your class or goodwill.


A stupid newbie,
Mike

A#1 was never here.... He calls me a young feller..I like that ..:)

I know Tagger.... just to mark the contrast I evoked ....

Fishing?

When Carl writes an article, it is full of years of great fishn' smarts. Rigs, tackle, baits(live, dead, and artificals) and general locations. Most folks will tell you about the Herring Run, Cribbin'(The 1000 stairs of Death), Keene St, Aptuxet, Portagee Hole, Playland, StoneChurch, MurdersRow, and that place(mezza no gonna says it) where the Gorilla Jiggers hangs out. He's not gonna tell what flat rock he stands on between pole #? and pole #?. If you see him in person, and he has trust in you. he might point you to a hole holding fish. You blab it about, next time he wishes you good fishin'. :happy: :happy: :happy:

nice flaptail, real nice. resorting to personal attacks. real classy. what's the deal with the newbie comment? i never heard it until i frequented these sites. keep up the good work. i wasn't venting, just stating the truth - it's real crowded out there. take a valium and get back to your laptop.

#^&#^&#^&#^&. that reminds me, my valium and zanax scripts need to be re-filled. Bummer, guess I will just have to huff on paint thinner to get through the weekend. Newbie Indanite, I like it!:smokin: :bo: