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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 211851" data-attributes="member: 412">Serious question, not trying to sound &quot;snippy&quot;.&nbsp; I haven't ever looked for the info, so, as a shortcut, can you give some examples or do you have an information source for guides/sq mi?&nbsp; Is there any info regarding guiding days/yr or # of clients/guide?I bet the fisheries biologists and ultimately the lake as a whole would benefit greatly if guides were required to report daily creel census data for themselves and their clients.&nbsp; Let's say that on any given day there are 50 guides w/3 clients each on DL.&nbsp; That's 200 people/day giving creel census data, data from folks who should be adept at catching fish.&nbsp; Imagine the data points that could be collected in studied.&nbsp; You could cross-reference general public creel census data with guiding creel data to gain a better understanding of catch rates, year classes, even narrow down the best &quot;catching&quot; days/periods for all times of the year.&nbsp; One could even extrapolate if fishing is better during the week when there's lower lake-traffic vs. weekends.Think of the advertising the guides could do with the above info.&nbsp; They'd be able to know who truly is the &quot;best&quot; guide service for numbers, size, species, ice, and/or boat fishing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 211851, member: 412"] Serious question, not trying to sound "snippy". I haven't ever looked for the info, so, as a shortcut, can you give some examples or do you have an information source for guides/sq mi? Is there any info regarding guiding days/yr or # of clients/guide? I bet the fisheries biologists and ultimately the lake as a whole would benefit greatly if guides were required to report daily creel census data for themselves and their clients. Let's say that on any given day there are 50 guides w/3 clients each on DL. That's 200 people/day giving creel census data, data from folks who should be adept at catching fish. Imagine the data points that could be collected in studied. You could cross-reference general public creel census data with guiding creel data to gain a better understanding of catch rates, year classes, even narrow down the best "catching" days/periods for all times of the year. One could even extrapolate if fishing is better during the week when there's lower lake-traffic vs. weekends. Think of the advertising the guides could do with the above info. They'd be able to know who truly is the "best" guide service for numbers, size, species, ice, and/or boat fishing. [/QUOTE]

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