I can't think of a more thankless job than that of a sport fishing crew. Sure, they get to work outdoors, and many of us sitting desk bound and staring at our screen savers romanticize about being on the water searching for the next anchovy fest. The reality is, however, there is no easy job on a sport fishing boat. Think about it. The deck hands not only have to work 50 days breakless during the season, but they have to be nice while doing it in order to make anything above their minimum wage.
Tour guides have to be nice, but they get to go home after the day and they get days off.
Captains don't have it easy either. They get about 5 hours of sleep a night, and even while they sleep they have to keep one eye open just in case the neophyte night captain gets into any trouble. Anyway, Captains, with their five hours of sleep for 50 days in a row, have to out-strategize and intercept roving bands of speeding fish chasing other smaller speeding fish in order to keep their numbers up and to continue to draw paying customers. With so many factors contributing to the life and times of a successful fisherman, it's easy to lose one's perspective. Sometimes we loose sight of the fact that we are in a beautiful and wild habitat that deserves our attention beyond our own personal fish count.