Advice needed on tipping the fishing guide and guys cleaning your catch

I have always tipped 20%.

I'm actually going on a guided perch trip tomorrow. There are 15 of us total on two boats. I told the guys to bring at least $20 cash to tip the guide. This particular guide service charges $1/fish to clean, so I told em to bring enough cash for that as well, or clean your own fish. So I plan to tip out at least $20 to the guide, and prolly $10-$15 for the cleaning. If each guy tips $20, thats $150 in tips to each guide. That's about 18%. If we do well, I'm sure a few of us will throw in another $20 or so.

I'll gladly pay $25 to have my fish cleaned and bagged while I sit and drink beer and watch. Besides, with smaller fish like perch, I typically frick up half the fillets when cleaning them myself

I always prefer to clean my own fish. The only thing I would worry about when it comes to having someone else clean them, is they may not rinse the filets well enough.

You don't want to freeze filets with slime all over them. Not even a little, it'll make them taste fishy.

If the they're cleaning your fish. Just make sure they're doing it to your satisfaction.

The filets need to be rinsed really well.

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So I plan to tip out at least $20 to the guide, and prolly $10-$15 for the cleaning.

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Never fished with a guide

I've always wondered this:

So what if the guide is also the owner?

He sets his price as an owner and a guide for what he feels is necessary to run a profitable business as an owner..does he still get a tip?

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First, this is super shitty. What makes you think they want fish as their tip? They do this every day, the last thing they want is fish.

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Settle down dude. Your response was super shitty, the guy was not suggesting he wanted to tip with fish, just the opposite.