Appreciate all input.

I shot the guy an email and told him we'd been fishing together for 15 years, I been doing all the boat maintenance, gas buying, planning, loading and unloading, towing and was just getting tired of being the tour guide as well as having to front all the costs and all the effort and all the tackle. I asked him to consider inviting me sometime, even he didn't have a boat, even if it was a guided trip, so that I occassionally could be the guest, and do a little relaxing. A wake up call to share the effort of the freindship. Since 1995, I've been 0ut 212 times, he's been along 50, and of the total trips, 99 were to Cland, and 22 he was a guest. All that from my boat log.

Will wait and see how that works out. In the meantime, since he says he's in the process of buying a new boat, and has said he'd get me out on it, I'll take a wait and see approach. If he invites me, I'll return the favor with an invite. He invites me on a paid guided trip, I'll go, and return the favor with 3 or 4 trips to show appreciation. Lest any of that------beach feet.

Boils down to a "if you really are a freind, put up or shut up, the gravey line stops here".

We'll see how it works.