So You Want To Be a Kenai River Guide?

I just finished my licensing for 2009 so I'm all legal and ready to go. Here's a list of all the licenses/certificates needed to be a fishing guide on the Kenai River.

*Coast Guard captain's license
*first aid card
*cpr card
*Transit Worker Identification Card (TWIC, fingerprinted and registered with Homeland Security)
*enrollment in a random drug testing program
*liability insurance
*commercially registered boat
*commercially registered trailer
*commercially registered vehicle
*state business license
*state registration/licensing for "fishing guide"
*completion of 40 hrs of class work at Kenai Peninsula College/Kenai River Guide Academy
*sales tax account with the Kenai Borough
*registration with Alaska State Parks, Kenai River Special Management Area
*fishing license


Everything listed above, except the sales tax account, have fees attached to them. And, despite all this, the guys that do this year in and year out do it because they love it.


That would still be me.