"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
:

Maybe they're not "flexing their muscles", maybe they're just doing
their job, but it would seem to me that the lake didn't suddenly get
larger, or more dangerous and that if a conventional guide license was
good enough in the past, it should be plenty good now. I just wonder
if in this age of budget cutbacks, they're seeing this license
requirement,with the revenue generated by tests and licenses and the
subsequent fines if an operator doesn't have one as a way of replacing
lost funding?


My bet is that administering the tests, and the testing program, is more
expensive than actually taking the tests. Its probably a line item expense
for the Coast Guard.

Scott