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Posts: 1405 Location: Detroit River | I've only done a fly-in trip (Kaby Lake) once & I was is in a group of 12 guys & we were there for 5 days. We each put in $100 so $400 went to the kitchen staff, $400 to cleaning staff (of which some also worked kitchen duty) & $400 to the dock guys. Plus my brother-in-law & I gave a little extra to one of the dock guys because he hooked use up with a perch spot that helped win us some cash from the other guys in our group for biggest perch of the day.
The trip cost us $1,000 so a 10% tip seemed a little low to me but the kitchen & cleaning staff were excited because they said they hardly get tips & when they do it's usually not much.
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| MstrMusky |
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bryantukkah - 7/15/2015 1:22 AM The only thing that should be standard about gratuities is that they are the standard. I don't consider it an option, its just a question of how much. It boils down to what it's worth to you. Greater satisfaction comes in giving rather than recieving, and it goes both ways when people feel like theyre appreciated. My buddies sometimes look at me like im crazy when i tip the cart girl like i do on the golf course... By the end of the round after shes come by our group ten or twelve times (and theyve had a cold beer in their hand all day) they start to catch the drift. You are entitled to your opinion, but I simply don't understand it to be honest. A gratuity or tip, by definition, is something that needs to be earned. Specifically for going above and beyond the service due. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gratuity When I was a lot younger, I worked for a fee + tips on a paper route and as a caddie. If I delivered the paper closer to the door step...i got bigger tips. People noticed. If as a caddie, I just carried the bag and was "there"...i made a lot less money. However, if I gave proper advice on my knowledge of the greens, pin distance (this was before GPS!), etc...I always got better tips. Again, its for going above and beyond the "contracted" service. As it relates to fishing in Canada, I have been both the biggest tipper and the worst tipper and it depended on the service I received. It was never "due", "expected", or a "given". Let me give you some examples: 1.)For guides, I don't tip based on fish seen or caught. The guide doesn't control that. If it's generally a brutal day where the guide is struggling with boat control in the rain and wind...I tip more. I see the effort he's putting in. Or if the guide pulls up and explains the structure, points out the spot on the spot, and is educating me on why we're fishing there (seen big fish there yesterday, or situational based on his hunch or experience)...I tip a lot more. That's going above and beyond. If the guide is simply driving me around a milk-run of community spots he hits every day...not impressed. I can do that...don't need him for that. 2.)for dock staff...some don't do jack. Others are wiping condensation off my boat seats and/or windshields in the morning. Some run down to tie me up when i come in at night. Heck, some have even helped load stuff into the boat, or unload it. Drive it to my boat from the back of my truck on a 4 wheeler on Day 1 and help get me set up...YOU BET HES GETTING A BIG TIP. Other times, i have bad camp equipment and they said they'd swap out trolling motor batteries, get the fishing line out of the trolling motor prop (from the prior guest the week before)...if it wasn't done...yeah...not getting a tip. in fact, now I'm peeed off cause my batteries die 2 hours later. One time, I had to give the dock guy money to go into town to buy new trolling motor batteries! He got a nice tip. 3.)Kitchen and cabin staff. Yeah, I tip. Wait staff I tip like any other restaurant. I count the meals and the value/cost of the american plan and add 20% at the end of the week if the service is good. If its great...I tip more. If I ever got an attitude from the staff, then they would get tipped less (I never got an attitude from kitchen staff in canada though...they rock). I always go back and tip the cook (unlike a restaurant) and relay especially which meals i enjoyed the best. One time at AML, Theresa made me a special meal she knew I liked. She knew I was coming and knew I liked those meatballs cause I had asked her for the recipe when I left one year. They weren't on the menu that week, but she made a special tray for me. She's passed now, I miss her.  I've had issues in the cabins sometimes though. One time, we came in one day and had no towels! They collected the dirties, but must have forgotten the fresh ones. We didn't tip less as it was an isolated incident. However, we let them know and they fixed it. If it happened again...i might be more annoyed and tip less. So my point is that a tip by definition should be correlated to the level of service you get. Yeah, I get it having worked for tips in my life in the past...some people are just jerks or cheap. It sucks, but life isn't fair all the time. But I find that most people are honest and reasonable and if someone is providing good to great service they can expect an average to above average tip. Plain and simple. And BTW, the jerks/cheap skates are offset by the big spenders...so it averages out over time. That's my $0.02. | |||
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