08-07-2009, 07:09 AM
Gotta love your ambition. Everyone is right get some experience I fished tournaments for 8 years and had over 30 1st place finishes before I even attempted to go after sponsors. Even then it was a lot of hard work. Start fishing the tourneys, keep track of the tourneys you fish and your placing and how many boats there were. You will need this info for your fishing resume. Chances are if your wanting a boat sponsor your going to have to buy a new boat and start with a local staff type deal, then you get into memo boats and so on and so forth. it's taken me over 12 years of tournament fishing to get the sponsors to get the so called "FREE" stuff. bottom line it takes a lot of money and donated time on your behalf doing shows, promo's, setting up stores, it goes into a full time job. Its well worth it and if you try hard enough you can get what ever you set your mind to. The sponsors are looking at what you can do for them to promote and move there products.. Hope this helps
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