thanks for the info. if i needeed the jackpot money so bad, i would be working overtime, not fishing. so it's not the money that bothers me. it's the fact that you have these freeloaders on the boat and they turn a limited load trip into an overloaded trip. we were runing out of bait also, the on duty deck hand told everyone to soak their bait to make it last. you think the deadheads were doing that?!? hell no. i was watching them go up and change their bait every two minutes. why do you think they caught most of the fish on the trip? to twist a screwdriver into an open wound further, the deckhand at the bait tank was chasing everyone away to conserve bait exept for the "heads." it was so bad that i used the same sardine on six casts for half an hour. is this what you pay good money for?? i used to be a bus driver for a rafting company. i used to be able to go on trips for free also. but i never went or was allowed to go on a trip where my presence would cause overcrowding. it was understood that a free trip was a courtesy as an employee and that the customer came first.