In article , roddytoo
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"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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To be worth paying £12 a day the water would need to be a bit special.
Which means work or extraordinary luck.

To pay for a manager/baliff, minimal outside input and amortise the
original
costs you'd need 1500-2000 people to pay that rate per year.

Easy money? Sorry, no.

Sorry, Derek, that's not the picture at at least two local fisheries. One
farmer is now making his living out of a very productive and popular
fishery, he digs out more land each year, the lake is increasingly popular
as a result. He openly says he makes more from the fishery than from the
fruit farming and I can believe it: at weekends and during school holidays
it is packed. £5 one rod, £7 two rods. My son caught 20 carp one evening
from 2 to 11 pounds. Not monsters but good fun.

He probably does - tree fruit growing is now completely uneconomic in the UK
as the supermarkets buyers won't pay enough for pickers even at minimum
wages. Instead they buy in from places where wages are not controlled.
Many fruit growers are planning to rip out their trees this year :-(
(The EU CAP changes mean that if it is not done this year the land will
never be elegible for any payment in the future and so any crop on it will
effectively lose £35/acre before it is even planted.)

The farmer has his own machinery and it sounds like he is doing his own
management - he may be making a reasonable wage for himself but I doubt it
would look so good if he had to pay for a manager/baliff and try to live on
just the remaining profits.

I didn't say it couldn't be done, just that it wasn't easy. If you're
willing to flog your guts out and re-invest heavily then, with a bit of
luck, you can build a business. Don't expect to retire early on it though...

Cheerio,

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