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My father recently started his own business and went into negotiations with a large construction company to win some of their structural steel jobs. Part of the negotiations was a meeting in my father's office to discuss what he does and what services he can offer. However this only lasted for about 15 minutes of the scheduled hour-long meeting when the client noticed a picture of my father's boat.
The client revealed he had just bought himself a boat but was unsure of how to use it or fish for large marine apex predators like Marlin and Tuna, so my father offered to teach them and run their boat for them for the day. At first the guys went about 30 miles out to sea where they were dropping baits 1/4 mile to the bottom for some tasty blue eye cod. But later in the day something remarkable happened, hundreds of Bluefin Tuna up to 180lb started to jump around and into the sides of the boat. The boys fired casts with lures and baits at the frenzied fish and they ended up with 5 fish between 140-180lb. Then on the way home they had a 200lb Yellowfin Tuna eat a lure that was being dragged behind the boat and it gave the angler all sorts of trouble in low light for an hour and a half. The end result for the day was around 1000lb of high quality tuna, 100lb of high quality cod, knuckles dragging on the ground and smiles from ear to ear all around. All up around $20k worth of fish for a day's fishing.
My father locked in his first 5 jobs with the company before getting to the dock to weigh and clean up the fish. The first 5 jobs should bring in a gross of over $100k, if not more. Sometimes what you do outside of work for a client can improve your reputation more than anything you do at the work site!! Thinking I may have to head up to Sydney to go and get at least 20lb of high quality sashimi Bluefin, it's worth the 20 hour round trip
The client revealed he had just bought himself a boat but was unsure of how to use it or fish for large marine apex predators like Marlin and Tuna, so my father offered to teach them and run their boat for them for the day. At first the guys went about 30 miles out to sea where they were dropping baits 1/4 mile to the bottom for some tasty blue eye cod. But later in the day something remarkable happened, hundreds of Bluefin Tuna up to 180lb started to jump around and into the sides of the boat. The boys fired casts with lures and baits at the frenzied fish and they ended up with 5 fish between 140-180lb. Then on the way home they had a 200lb Yellowfin Tuna eat a lure that was being dragged behind the boat and it gave the angler all sorts of trouble in low light for an hour and a half. The end result for the day was around 1000lb of high quality tuna, 100lb of high quality cod, knuckles dragging on the ground and smiles from ear to ear all around. All up around $20k worth of fish for a day's fishing.
My father locked in his first 5 jobs with the company before getting to the dock to weigh and clean up the fish. The first 5 jobs should bring in a gross of over $100k, if not more. Sometimes what you do outside of work for a client can improve your reputation more than anything you do at the work site!! Thinking I may have to head up to Sydney to go and get at least 20lb of high quality sashimi Bluefin, it's worth the 20 hour round trip