Your own Fishing Lake

[Jamie Thornton]

Just out of interest, if you wanted to have ur own fishing lake and have a business from it, where do you start?? Is there anyone who knows? How much are fish to buy each, say, a 10lb Carp? Whered you buy them from? Any information whould be great. I'm only 16, I dont know much about careers and all that, I'm just wondering what you would have to do, might do it one day.....maybe you would come visit it? Who knows.....

[Jamie Thornton]

Also, how do you weigh very small fish like gudgeon. Is there such thing as a set of scales with dram divisions?? Or is it on a digital set of scales? Do need to wiegh it in a special weiging net which weighs hardly anything?

[chesters1]

16? ok get as many a levels as you can ,go to uni for as long as it takes to become a lawyer or top banker (or politician) put all available funds into offshore accounts or swiss banks ,become head of huge conglomerate (continue hiding funds) become a non executive director of many other companies ,award yourself huge pay rises and share packages retire at 50 with huge golden handshake (or get sacked with the same result) buy nice house with lake then employ me as gardener (quick as poss please) as for the scales keep you eye out at carboots for scales ,weigh the fish subtract the weight of net ,good luck

[Martin Salisbury]

Don't become a lawyer - it's a nightmare!

 

I think carp are worth approximatly £10 per 1lb. So your 10lb carp should cost over £100 each!

[davidP]

For weighing very small fish you do need specialist scales. I seem to recall Dennis Flack, that well known minature specimen hunter, uses a set of scales designed for weighing small birds.

 

As for the cost of starting a commecial fishery, well it very much depends where in the country you are as land costs a lot more darn sarf. Fish can cost anything from £3 per pound up to thousands for big carp. An advert in Anglers mail this week quotes £500 for 3000 3-6 inch roach & rudd or £1000 for 250lb of 3-9lb carp (aprox £6000 per 1000).

 

Off the top of my head though, if you wanted to do it properly and included cost of land, building the lake(s) & facilities, stocking, legal & professional advice, advertising, insurance etc etc then I don't think I'd even think about it without around £250,000 to hand, and a lot more in the south east!

 

Bruno's the man for this type of question though, it's part of his business after all.

[Steve Burke]

I wish I could get £100 for my 10lb carp! The price varies depending on the size. Expect to pay around half that for 10lb fish. Smaller fish are less, big carp (at least those with a pedigree) are a LOT more!

 

I'd add that the price varies depending on a number of factors: whether you're buying from a dealer, how many you buy, whether you do tne netting/pumping yourself, whether you pay for the health check, transport costs, and above all, the quality of the fish.

 

[ 08 July 2002, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Steve Burke ]

[Martin Salisbury]

Just out of interest it may be looking at the price list for http://www.willowcroft.co.uk

[scoobs11]

my mate paid less than thirty thousand for 4 ponds already stocked

[Zinky]

I pay one bottle at Christmas to fish a small pool in Cheshire now that's low cost fishing and I have it all to myself.

[Jim Roper]

Jamie Thornton:

How much are fish to buy each, say, a 10lb Carp?

Have look here: http://www.coarsefish.demon.co.uk/prices.htm

 

I put 4 carp (biggest about 5.5lb) and about 10 rudd about 5 ins long (total cost £60.00)into a pond I had dug for duck shooting. That was about 6 years ago. Now there appear to be hundreds of carp and thousands of rudd in there. In a mild climate, they seem to breed every year. I put 120 small tench in about a year after the carp but have only seen 2 caught since. I think a cormorant got most of them early on, but it may just be that they are difficult to catch.

You would have to be very careful in choosing a site. It would generally be too expensive, I think, to just do it by digging a hole, even if the water table was fairly shallow. Better to find a sloping site with a water source and build a dam to create some open water. I think you will need some very expensive and sofisticated engineering calculations and designs for a dam that is to retain more than 5 million gallons (I think this is the figure, though perhaps it's a metric amount).

 

Jim Roper

 

http://www.searchlineuk.com/FishList.htm

 

[ 09 July 2002, 09:02 AM: Message edited by: Jim Roper ]