01-14-2006, 07:46 AM
fishing clubs are tricky,
starting new clubs usualy disband in a season or two,
the ones that stand up to the test of time usualy have the same thing in common, goals, Primary and secondary.
the day of loose leaf fishing organizations are gone out with the tied. they usualy met in a common place at a local tavern to boast of conquest.
todays clubs needs structure, no not that of a fortune 500 club. in most parts office business can be delt with in a few short minutes of a meetings time leaveing much room for leasure.
back to goals a single simple yearly goal can propell a club for years. You will want to look at goals of sucessfull fishing clubs, they all have one thing in common, that is that the members all have the same intrest, a bass club wants to fish every body it can in its existance and have a tournament or two. trout unlimited have the goal of wanting to plant trout in every sutible body of water for catch and release. Walleye clubs like to meet both common goal much the same as bass and trout clubs.
starting up a big fish club would not be all that difficult. start with a couple guys and start keeping fishing records. your goal would be to mark big species specimen and the waters they were found, you can do catch and release, you can make our anual 16 species contest as part of your club activity. weather it is for compitition or just a club activity matters not.
Local chapters would decide if their club would be raising funds to suport them selves or for a charity.
the other main reason or goal these clubs have in common are a few people who want a night or two out of the house per month to talk about fishing and share same intrest with those who have the same.
make your clubs start out simple, meet at mc donalds one evening for coffee a month and throw a dollar or two in a jar, they have tables that will seet quite a few people, and if you out grow mc donalds you can move on to other establishments like the basement of a church, these days many of the larger sporting centers have free meeting rooms for fishing clubs to use. there are two gandermountains near me and both have such meeting rooms.
there is a plus side to a BigFishTackle club if it uses a goal of 16 species is that it will allow anglers who like to target one or several different sepcies to partisipate.
each club need at least simple requisits, such as comon markings. patches, boat decals, ect. this will draw new members who do not want be part of a large regimented orginization.
Utah has the largest BigFishTackle clubs around they are a suscessfull loose leaf group and have been active for several years now. At least I think they are loose leaf, I havent heard of any one actualy holding an office.
you can have peer fishing clubs or ice fishing even boat and or fly fishing BigFishTackle clubs if you cand find local people who are serious about fishing and are not just out for the catching. there is a lot of that to contend with. You might even be able to make it a family BFT fishing group where you and a couple other families to start things off, that would get you in to the running of getting a club going.
what state are you fishing out of?
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starting new clubs usualy disband in a season or two,
the ones that stand up to the test of time usualy have the same thing in common, goals, Primary and secondary.
the day of loose leaf fishing organizations are gone out with the tied. they usualy met in a common place at a local tavern to boast of conquest.
todays clubs needs structure, no not that of a fortune 500 club. in most parts office business can be delt with in a few short minutes of a meetings time leaveing much room for leasure.
back to goals a single simple yearly goal can propell a club for years. You will want to look at goals of sucessfull fishing clubs, they all have one thing in common, that is that the members all have the same intrest, a bass club wants to fish every body it can in its existance and have a tournament or two. trout unlimited have the goal of wanting to plant trout in every sutible body of water for catch and release. Walleye clubs like to meet both common goal much the same as bass and trout clubs.
starting up a big fish club would not be all that difficult. start with a couple guys and start keeping fishing records. your goal would be to mark big species specimen and the waters they were found, you can do catch and release, you can make our anual 16 species contest as part of your club activity. weather it is for compitition or just a club activity matters not.
Local chapters would decide if their club would be raising funds to suport them selves or for a charity.
the other main reason or goal these clubs have in common are a few people who want a night or two out of the house per month to talk about fishing and share same intrest with those who have the same.
make your clubs start out simple, meet at mc donalds one evening for coffee a month and throw a dollar or two in a jar, they have tables that will seet quite a few people, and if you out grow mc donalds you can move on to other establishments like the basement of a church, these days many of the larger sporting centers have free meeting rooms for fishing clubs to use. there are two gandermountains near me and both have such meeting rooms.
there is a plus side to a BigFishTackle club if it uses a goal of 16 species is that it will allow anglers who like to target one or several different sepcies to partisipate.
each club need at least simple requisits, such as comon markings. patches, boat decals, ect. this will draw new members who do not want be part of a large regimented orginization.
Utah has the largest BigFishTackle clubs around they are a suscessfull loose leaf group and have been active for several years now. At least I think they are loose leaf, I havent heard of any one actualy holding an office.
you can have peer fishing clubs or ice fishing even boat and or fly fishing BigFishTackle clubs if you cand find local people who are serious about fishing and are not just out for the catching. there is a lot of that to contend with. You might even be able to make it a family BFT fishing group where you and a couple other families to start things off, that would get you in to the running of getting a club going.
what state are you fishing out of?
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