What is the proper tip amount to give a guide on Toledo bend?

20%

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What is the proper tip amount to give a guide on Toledo bend?

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Who's cleaning the fish?

We tips 50ish bucks a piece because we were brutally hungover and one of us shite on his boat

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I have never tipped a guide, I’m already paying them a fee. I do give them an extra $40 if the clean the fish.

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I've never understood this, why am I obligated to tip a guide who is charging me a fee for his services? I don't tip the auto mechanic because he did a good job of fixing my truck.

When you pay $10k for a hunt 10% is a lot of money added to the cost.

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When you pay $10k for a hunt 10% is a lot of money added to the cost.

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Well that would be a little much. I used to duck guide and generally if the clients had a good time, you would get about $100/day for a tip that usually got split up by all the hunters (typically 4 but sometimes less). $60 was about average per day. Usually most folks carry $20's so that is usually the tip structure unless they pay with a card then it could be anywhere. I would imagine a fishing guide would get about the same kind of tip since the trip cost is probably about the same per person I would guess.

Depends, if it's a guide who works for someone else I'll tip them.

My Toledo guided trips run around $500/day and he cleans and bags the fish, so he gets $100 (20%). Inshore and offshore saltwater trips, we usually throw $50 each up, unless the trip is really good or really bad.

Who are you going with?

Thx guys. We are going with living the dream on the bend in May.