Originally Posted by
Booger Rose
That is where my problem starts. R2k is a lot of money when you have to buy nappies and milk! My money for fishing is such that I might be able to pay R100 per day and fish the venue 4, maybe 5 times during the season eg. Ive fished Eikendal now 4 times during past winter - and will join jasper on Jonkerhoek to look for witvis for my 5th time. When I fish your venue, it would be one of these occasions, and then I would only be able to pay per day and not R2k for year. that is where the market changes to the exclusive side of ff, only a few people can afford it and a great venue can be build up around this core of flyfishers. This would be the safe way for you to go, get into the yuppie market!
It's not about willingly trying to be exclusive at all Eduard. It costs to produce a quality fishery, period....and unfortunately there is absolutely no other way around it....unless of course you've got a hot contact for free fish!
You guys would fall on your backs if you knew how much I have spent on stocking over the years, and some of these dams are so far away that I only got to fish them less than 4 times a year! Just last year I put together a 5 man syndicate to stock a private dam in the kouebokkeveld with Clanwilliam yellows. Only 50 juvenile fish cost us R2000!!!! Exclusive fishing....yes most definitely, but at a price! You get what you pay for.
"Innocence is a wild trout. But we humans, being complicated, have to pursue innocence in complex ways" - Datus Proper
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