Really? This is another ridiculous law! You pay the state $100 for the privilege of being a hunting guide. Once you've paid, does that make you a "Certified Hunting Guide"? Do you get trained first? Did you have to pass a test to qualify? Just like the saltwater fishing license, it's nothing but another tax with no return benefit! I'm not a guide and I never plan to be, but this type of stupidity is another reason to move away from CT.

From what I read in the first post the law isn't about anything other than getting $100.00 from you and that's only if you get paid to take people out.
So for you guys taking people out, make sure if they are filming the trip that they don't film you taking any cash. LOL.

Screw them!
I'm not doing anything different than I already do. I already pay nearly a grand between CT, NY and RI for a charter license GETTING NOTHING IN RETURN FROM ANY OF THEM. The few times I get hired to run someone else's boat, they will have to catch me and proves I'm working for the owner. This is really bull crap!

You get to keep more porgies than we do - that's something.

can you define "navigable waterways"

per legal dictionary . com

Lakes and rivers are generally considered navigable waters, but smaller bodies of water may also be navigable. Attempting to address years of problematic litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979 created four tests for determining what constitutes navigable waters. Established in Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164, 100 S. Ct. 383, 62 L. Ed. 2d 332, the tests ask whether the body of water (1) is subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, (2) connects with a continuous interstate waterway, (3) has navigable capacity, and (4) is actually navigable. Using these tests, courts have held that bodies of water much smaller than lakes and rivers also constitute navigable waters. Even shallow streams that are traversable only by canoe have met the test.