I had a very good friend who owned a bait shop on the east side of chicago. Late spring and summer hrs 0400 to 1900 hrs 7 days a week.Winter 0600 hrs to 1600 hrs, 6 days a week. His wife and son helped, he loved to fish, got to go maybe 7 days a year! Chuck strange, hires help to keep his store open. I had only two chances to fish with hin in 10 years. When I moved down here my son said he'd stake me for two years to become a striper guide on cumberland. We fished with 4 guides in a month, it isn't worth the money earned,two of those guides went out of business. My cousin is a guide in northrn wisc and upper michigan, winter and summer, its a cut throat business.