Make a small fortune in the fishing industry
Make a small fortune in the fishing industry…
….now there’s a headline you don’t see very often. In fact, I’ve never seen it.
Unless you start with a huge fortune and slowly squander it while chasing our friends who live beneath the waves, most people don’t enter the exciting world of the fishing industry in search of fame and fortune. Rarely are recruiters from salmon canneries knocking on your door as you bask in the glory of graduating college, nor do you pick up a copy of Entrepreneur Magazine and find “fisherman” a hot new franchise. The guys who wear a lot of bling and chest waders rarely splash into your business and hand you a business card and brochure that says, “for an investment of $10,000, I can help you triple your income in thirty days… GUARANTEED!”
In fact, I even googled “Make Money Fishing” and got 313 responses and the discouraging idea that if you choose to fish as a way of life, you are destined for a life of laid-back mediocrity. Of course, there are a few exceptions, like bass fishermen or the guys who sell fishing adventures to Mars, but for the most part, if you have an initial epiphany of “I want to make my fortune fishing,” you’re screaming. the wrong rifle.
Some other samples of fishing offers to earn money:
1. Russ Roy – Offers a slightly tongue-in-cheek article, claiming that we fishermen can make extra money by slathering stinky fish attractants and fish “spit” on our jeans and then reselling them on eBay as “designer fisherman’s clothing.” Complete with holes for hooks. I’m just saying a little “ironic,” because they’d probably sell out, especially in some fancy Beverly Hills boutique on Rodeo Drive.
“Oh honey, those salmon roe Jordaches make your butt look divine!”
Heck, add a 1/4-ounce “cocktail” zipper and I could buy a pair myself.
2. A New England commercial fisherman is selling his fishing operation: he is “grossing” about $80K per year and claims “cash flow” of $53k. Asking price $105k.
The “hook” here is the benefit of leaving the rat race for the “open seas”.
I have to ask myself, “does this mean he wants to re-enter the rat race?” Health problems force sale?? Wear fun wool sweaters!
NO, THANKS!
Oh, and by the way, it’s a one man operation, so have fun running around that boat and ordering yourself around, or you can hire someone and watch your $53k disappear.
There is no fortune there.
3. Make your own fishing lures. This might give you some personal satisfaction or relieve some tension, which in itself might be a nice benefit to the rest of society, and I guess if you can get $3.00 a lure you can actually triple your income as a current fly level …I doubt you’ll make a fortune though, unless you can break into an already saturated market of fishing lure producers or live to be 116 and sell them on eBay as “antique”.
I couldn’t really find any bona fide “get rich fishing” schemes, except for angler’s tournament bids, which is hardly considered fishing at the time.
Not even an MLM scheme: “See, you buy 12 fish and send them to each of the kingfishers in your UPLINE, and then you level up the carp!” –“When you move to the top of the “pyramid anchor” and become a “Marlin”, you will receive 64,000 FISH in your mailbox!”
Are you in?
So I suppose that we fishermen will have to retire to the “zen-minimalist” philosophy of: less is more, if we want to consider ourselves “rich” or “rich”.
At least by fishing standards, we can consider ourselves rich in outdoor experiences or have a great deal of fishing knowledge. Not to mention, the Toyota Chinook camper is paid for!
According to my good friend “Webster” fortune is defined as: prosperity achieved in part through luck… And who knows more about luck than a fisherman!
So, keep trying to sell those Rolex knockoffs, cheap pharmaceuticals, and “secrets” to success on eBay.
The competition is much less in the market: “the road to fish wealth”.
Which can only lead to a lot of “downtime”, which can certainly be filled with… FISHING!
Also, I have never heard that: “the time spent selling cialis on the Internet is not deducted from one’s lifetime”, right?