sbaillie wrote:
When I first started exploring the area 15 or so years ago we were going to head to exactly the area you are looking at. We changed our mind upon finding a very small clause in the regs that forbids non residents from fishing north of the 52nd without a local guide.
Yeah, too expensive and having a guide is for wimps, takes the fun out of it. Do you happened to know how this is applied? Do you actually have to have a guide with you if you are fishing or do you just have to use the services of a local? Like, there are guys that haul their own boats up there to fish the big lakes, staying in an outfitter's cabin. I don't think they have to pick-up a guide every time they go out fishing? So maybe if you started a trip with an over-night at an outfitter's you could then head out on your own?
One time I paid a Cree trapper to meet me at a put-in to mark up my maps and give me some face-to-face advice. Could that qualify? Or paying someone for a car shuttle?