Re: The charter/party industry...
Let's call a duck a duck and a horse a horse. This thread is about price gouging in the charter boat industry. It's about nothing more.
Think about it this way. You're driving down route 35, and you get to gas station A and see he's charging $2.75/gallon, wow! The guy in gas station B a half mile away is charging $3.75/gallon, you're not gonna go there because you wanna save a few bucks. You fill up with gas station A, as does 20 other people, and a week later, you're broken down b/c you got bad fuel and now you gotta pay for any repairs that need to be done.
The bottom line, Capt Kris said a few pages back, is YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Yes, for some of us, there are more expenses in terms of fuel and bait, and prices are adjusted accordingly. Some of us don't have the luxury of pulling out of our slip and drifting in the channel a mile away and catching some fish while most of the day your engine is idling and not burning fuel.
Typically, for me (and most other "shore area" guys to get my guys into fish on any given day, I'm covering a minimum of 10 miles, if not more, from dock to dock. I, like everyone else, try to keep my fares fair and reasonable - my engines and boat are good on fuel, we buy bait in bulk, etc.
With that said, I still have to make $$ on my trips. Yes, this is "part time" for me except for the summer when we do this full time and there is no $$ coming in; my business is paying bills - I have a family to feed, I have mortgage(s), other bills, etc. I, like most other guys have good intentions while running this business - it's the guys that have different intentions, or no intentions at all except to be some kind of a folk hero that takes guys fishing to cover the costs of his boat, that this thread is directed at. (Correct me if I'm wrong Vin!)
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