Inshore fishing surely isn’t brain surgery, but I’ll bet the farm you don’t know S@#t as compared to some reputable guides in your area.
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Originally posted by StrikePositionI’m a Neurosurgeon. I don’t even spend two hours preparing for brain surgery.
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Before i went to md school i worked for my uncle for two summers. We built metorological survey balloons. Tedious calculations and precision machining aluminum for atmospheric delivery systems. Do you think anyone cared what it cost us to build things? At the end of the day you get paid what its worth. If someone was willing to pay us xxx for a sensory unit that cost us xxxx to make we manned up and took the hit becase there are too few people wanting systems like this. If we had evey goober from ohio offering twice as much beacuse they didnt know any better then of course we would take it. But could we sleep at night knowing sooner or later they would realize they got overcharged because of where they were from?
If one of these ohio guys takes a ft sumter tour and hears all the confederate rhetoric and then gets on your boat and you fish within sight of it and hold your hand out mumbling somthing about a tip - how does that set us charlestonians up? have some class and keep the palmetto roses on market street.
Whats sad is there are more responses to this particular thread than there are fishing reports on this entire forum.
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Says the guy with 9 total posts. Just curious as to what you think a fair rate for an inshore charter should be? Does a 17ft flats boat charge the same as a 24ft Bay Boat?
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Down here is where a signature goes but they can confuse and anger some people so I don’t have one.
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Inshore fishing surely isn't brain surgery, but I'll bet the farm you don't know S@#t as compared to some reputable guides in your area
I’d also bet the farm that I’ve spent a lot more hours learning to fish than a brain surgeon did in school.
My wife is an MRI and CT technologist, and works for a group of 10 neurosurgeons. There ain’t a one of them with a lick of common sense. They do know their brains and spines though.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Why continue to belabor your assertion? If YOU don’t think it is worth it, don’t hire a guide.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
I would think a neurologist cold do a little better with grammar. Nice alias. Otherwise, please let us all know where you practice, so we can make our medical decisions accordingly if need be.
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Originally posted by StrikePositionBefore i went to md school i worked for my uncle for two summers. We built metorological survey balloons. Tedious calculations and precision machining aluminum for atmospheric delivery systems. Do you think anyone cared what it cost us to build things? At the end of the day you get paid what its worth. If someone was willing to pay us xxx for a sensory unit that cost us xxxx to make we manned up and took the hit becase there are too few people wanting systems like this. If we had evey goober from ohio offering twice as much beacuse they didnt know any better then of course we would take it. But could we sleep at night knowing sooner or later they would realize they got overcharged because of where they were from?
If one of these ohio guys takes a ft sumter tour and hears all the confederate rhetoric and then gets on your boat and you fish within sight of it and hold your hand out mumbling somthing about a tip - how does that set us charlestonians up? have some class and keep the palmetto roses on market street.
Whats sad is there responses to this particular thread than there are fishing reports on this forum.
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Maybe he is good with brains and not wurds?
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
Maybe trying to read his own handwriting. I’ve seen some doctors’ writing before. Whoa! (my apologies to any dr.'s that write legibly)
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
Sorry guys. I was out a little late last night with some of my neurologist buddies and old rocket scientist friends. Please excuse the poor grammar.
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In your initial post, you refer to “most” guides. I’m curious. Exactly how many local guides have you hired or know personally? There must be at least 400 in the Charleston area now.
best alias since colongo and his Daniel island crab thread
well played. hi 5
I’m confused. I thought ToppyBlue claimed he was a metallurgist - not a neurosurgeon??
Let me tell ya this, OP. I’m on my 7th boat. I’m 38, and I still ain’t got crap figured out yet.
On bad days, I’ve had shrimp cost me over $125/pound (yes, one hundred twenty-five dollars).
Take Saturday, for instance – $100 fuel bill and about 6 sharpnose were caught. Oh, wait, there was the endangered ARS in ~40’ of water! (Not my boat that day, but we had lots of wrongs and couldn’t buy a right.)
Or, Wednesday – I had wife, son, Mom, Dad on board. We fished the jetties. I didn’t buy bait, I found it. Took time, and a detour. Went to the jetties, and got 30+ undersized BSB, a bunch of toadfish, and two cownose rays. We got drenched for over 1.5 hours. We burnt ~20 gallons that day.
As it’s been going on now (I’m on page two before I posted), go buy a boat. Tow it. Feed it. Maintain it. Entertain. Rig. Do freakin’ everything onboard, and you’ll quickly see that $400 is cheap.
When I had my family onboard at the Gtown jetties, I was losing rigs left and right, unhooking and rebaiting as fast as I could, and rerigging break-offs for about 3 hours. I was whooped and never wetted a line for myself, and I own the (**()ed boat.
I, personally, enjoy fishing others’ boats because I know I can just relax for a few hours and hopefully catch a fish or two (but, sometimes not). Chipping in on a fuel bill hurts a whole lot less than a fish that costs you $200/lb. I’ve had a day like that before, too. It’s tough to swallow, no matter how you cook it.
'14 Key West 203FS w/ Yamaha F150
‘99 145 Sportfish w/ Johnson 40
"Kiss my ass, I bought a boat; I’m goin’ out to sea." (Jimmy Buffett covering Lovett)
http://www.thehulltruth.com/sportfishing-charters-forum/769358-private-charters-too-expensive-7.html
At the risk of offending someone by posting a link to another forum, there are a bunch of answers on this thread that our neurologist friend should read.
$400 for a half day with a professional fisherman is too much? Coming from a neurologist that performs an EMG/ Nerve conduction study on a patient that takes one hour and charges $2500?
Oh yeah, because nothing about the medical field is grossly over-priced. I remember an item on a bill one time for one of my sons. “Self-administered” medication, $44 (2 - tylenol 3 tablets). It’s all relative I guess.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
I’m enjoying this. Keep it coming…
“mr keys”
First of all, I will concede that $400 is not an outrageous fee for a half day fishing charter. However, what I find hilarious is that not one person here has simply responded with something to the effect of,
“There is a lot of work and a lot of expenses involved, but we are fortunate enough to make a living on the water doing something that we love.”
I feel like this would be a reasonable response to my original post. Instead most of the responses on this thread have been a personal attack on my character and assumptions about my own level of fishing experience, as well as ridiculous attempts to convince me that more time and effort goes into becoming a so called “expert” on the local fisheries than becoming a neurosurgeon.
Come on people. This isn’t Deadliest Catch.
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Strike;;; One thing I’ve learned on here is no matter the post subject 1/2 the responses will rip you apart,1/2 will respond in support ,ya better grow a thick skin to participate…
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"There is a lot of work and a lot of expenses involved, but we are fortunate enough to make a living on the water doing something that we love."
Replace that with “we are fortunate enough to be trying to make a living on the water doing something that we love, and will keep trying until we almost go broke, then will usually do something else, because love don’t pay the bills” 
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper