carp fishing holiday
calling all carp fisherman!...?
My dad has spent the past 3 yrs preparing and maintaining a carp fishing lake in Normandy France. It has been fished a few times during this time and 30lb+ have been caught. My dad would now like to use it as a business and make money from groups of fisherman/ as a carp fishing holiday. Has anyone done a similar thing and does anyone have any suggestion on how to get the punters in?? We've set up a website and have leaflets etc but havent had many enquiries.. what would attract you to a lake in France... Or (lol so many questions in one!) do you know of anyone who would be interested in fishing our virgin lake?? its in beautiful surroundings and theres accomodation available. Thanks for any help!
Contact the concierges at Inns in the area, offer their guests a discount.
Advertise in local papers, the airline's magazines, travel agencies, and sportsmens magazines.
A tournament is a great idea! Be sure to get all the coverage you can from any source you can. Also, be sure to have the results, along with photos of the big fishes distributed to all media outlets.
Offer clinics to teach children and adults how to fish.
Run a weekly carp recipe in any form of media who will allow it. Carp is the most consumed fish in the world.
Offer rental fishing poles. For those who didn't travel prepared. (Even my motorcycle has rods and reels stationed on board in case I have a chance to fish. Doesn't everyone?)
Have a contest and offer overnight accomodations, bait, poles and fishing lessons if neccessary to the winner.
Consider starting an online carp fishing magazine of your own.
Contact carp bait companies, and fishing equipment manufacturers to see if they would or could help out with a product tie-in.(French carp bait for carp with good taste)
Invite any of the guys with fishing shows to come and fish and stay the night. Nothing is more valuable to a new business as exposure.
Appeal directly to big businesses who may need a place for a business retreat, conference facility, or they may be able to use a stay at your place for a prize in an employee incentive program.
Get with one of your local kids' programs like Autism Institute, or Special Olympics and have them bring out a bunch of kids to fish. Have some little prizes for each kid and make sure you have media coverage.
Seek help from as many carp related websites as possible in furthering your adverts and exposure.
Challenge a group of fishermen from the US or elsewhere to a 'fish-off'. For example; 50 fishermen will fish there and 50 will fish a chosen body of water here for the same amount of time. Who wins is irrelevent, whats important is that you have plenty of media coverage. I live very near the Erie Canal in New York, worthy carp waters by anyone's standards, I'm sure I could find 25- 50 people who'd like to take part in an 'international incident.'
To specifically answer the rest of your questions:
French women, food, French women, and good fishing all attract me to France. Oh yea, I like French women, too.
French women are beautiful, fiesty, passionate,and I can't understand them when they tell me to leave them alone.
I know lots of guys who'd love to fish your lake, but traveling that far for a fish I can catch here for free is cost prohibitive.
You may want to accentuate the part about beautiful surroundings and comfortable accomodations.
I wish you the best of luck in this new business and hope to fish your lake one day!
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