Comments on: What Fishing Has Taught Me About Business

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:30:15 +0000

I love fishing! I would go fishing every day if I could. Here are a few other lessons fishing has taught me:

Sometimes the smaller fish will nibble your offering without getting the hook. They get your bait and you end up frustrated.

You have to fish where the fish are. If there's no fish where you're fishing, you're not going to catch anything.

Chumming the water attracts fish, but not always the fish you want.

Some fish attack the lure like they're starving, while others look it over before biting. But all fish have to eat sometime.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:26:31 +0000

Chuck, it's probably also tacky to hook a client with a spinner lure, but I'll let you make that call. ;-)

Kim, you probably know more than I do about freelancing, but I'm glad I could teach you a little something about fishing. I hope you try it!

Wade, great minds! I hope you do have a fishing post - I'd love to see your take on it!

Allena, fishing isn't for everyone. My niece, the first time she touched a fish, said "It slobbered on me!" So I get it. :) Yes, we DO have a long state. I go back home and it takes five hours to get there, and I'm not quite the farthest east and they're not the farthest west. Looooong state!

Anne, you're so right about the fish being more predictable. :)

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:53:21 +0000

I don't fish these days, but I have… both trout in the mountains, and commercially for salmon and herring out of San Francisco… good points, although fish are, for the most part, more predictable than fish imo.

By: allena

allena — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:15:07 +0000

Lori- I hate fishing. I think it's really gross when you have to take the fish off the hook.

I LOVE Pennsylvania though. We go to NYC from Michigan as often as possible- often for clients- and I love the "mountainous" areas, as do my kiddos. We recently went to DC and VA Beach, through some of Penn, too. Your state can be very long. "Are we outta Pennsylvania yet? geez"

By: Wade Finnegan

Wade Finnegan — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:57:44 +0000

From one fisherperson to another you're spot on, Lori. You may not believe this, but I just started drafting a post with the same title. lol Actually, started writing it on my last fishing/camping trip. I guess I will need to rework that. 🙂 But the analogy of fishing and business is so true. I'll make some more comparisons next week to prove that.

By: Kimberly Ben

Kimberly Ben — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:52:44 +0000

I've never fished before, Lori, which is crazy considering my grandfather had two fishing ponds on his farm land when I was growing up. I feel like I learned a little something about fishing and freelancing from reading your post. 🙂

By: ChuckB

ChuckB — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:20:05 +0000

Good morning, Lori. Let's see if I can make Blogger work for me today after I couldn't figure it out last week.

Your comparisons between fishing and working are spot on. I don't fish, I don't play golf, but I do sell stuff as both a vocation and unfortunately it's spilled over to be an avocation, too, but when I catch something I get the positive experience of taking it to the bank where it sometimes grows.

But, then, I've not known anyone who describes the fishing experience as you do, so maybe it's time to take a second look cause it's tacky to drink a beer when in a sales call, while I bet it's part and parcel of the real fishing experience.

Glad you had a great time. Chuck