I have been guiding full time for 20 years now. For many years I guided from the end of February to the end of November with no days off (7 days a week) except for an occasional cancellation due to inclement weather conditions. I have seen the boat traffic continuously increase here on Ky/Barkley every year since my first year of guiding. About 10 years ago I was guiding on the 4th of July weekend and went through the canal that connects the two lakes. Half way through the canal I made a promise to God that if he would just let us survive until we got through the canal alive that I would never again guide on a holiday weekend...and since then I have never put my boat in the water on a holiday weekend. About 3 years ago while guiding on a Saturday during the summer my clients and I were fishing a ledge outside the navigation channels.....there was a Poker Run that day as well as a number of bass tournaments....3 times that day we came very close to being run over by packs of 90 mph cigar type boats and I lost count of how many times bass boats pulled up right beside us and started throwing their lures on the same spot we were fishing without saying a word to us...most close enough I could have stepped into their boat. I made the decision that day that I had enough of the summer weekend nonsense and I have not guided on a weekend between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend since. All this and I am working on the biggest freshwater water way in the country except for the Great Lakes. I can't even imagine what it is like now on Barren, Green, Rough, Cumberland, Dale, Herrington, Cave Run, Taylorsville and other lakes I fished many years ago before I moved here...it has to be a nightmare at best. I certainly can see why all the frustration here. I also do not know the answer to the problem. All I can say is that if everyone out there would practice the Golden Rule things would certainly be better but of course that would apply to every thing in life, but the problem is that there are some folks that just don't care about other folks. I do see that sometime in the future this will lead to more government regulations and restrictions....I am surprised actually that this has not already happened here in Kentucky....it has in some states already and that is one of the biggest reasons we get so many anglers from the northern states here.