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Great info Hale!!!!!!!!!

You might want to look into these options: www.angelfire.lycos.com/ www.bravenet.com www.freewebs.com I don't speak from experience because I pay for all of mine, but I know angelfire has been around for a very long time and I've heard some good things about Bravenet.

bassin_man Compiling a resume certainly can't hurt. If you're looking to obtain some sponsorship I would start, as nwgabassmaster said, outside of the fishing industry - they are bombarded with requests for free products and donations. Area businesses have advertising needs. I'd persue that option first. FFF

Congrats bassnleo 8-)

Ditto what Will said!! Also you might want to look at attorney's - they do a lot of advertising.

Keep in mind most tackle companies and bait shops receive numerous requests for sponsorship, but I always found that talking to them personally (face to face) was the best method for me.

afroengineer I would see them in person. When I was fishing tournaments I met with all of my local sponsors personally. They knew me anyhow, as I assume these companies do you are preparing to contact. When I asked for money I always told them how many potential customers I could put them in front of over the upcoming year's tournaments. I would mentally add up my entry fees, then determine how many sponsors I wanted, then divide the number of sponsors by the total entry fee amount for the year. If my entry fees were let's say $2000.00 and I was after 10 sponsors I would tell each one my sponsorship fee was $200 for the entire year, which breaks down to a little less than $20.00 per month. Usually when I told them what it broke down to monthly - they were in. You can promote almost any company (construction, excavating, etc) at fishing tournaments. You can wear their logo on your shirt as you stated, place a sticker on your vehicle, volunteer at trade shows, hand out marketing materials, brochures, etc. The key really is to find out what THEY WANT you to do for them in exchange for giving you sponsorship dollars (advertising dollars to them). Hope that helps a little more..........

When I first read the title to this post I said - you have got to be kidding me. How can someone spell sponsorship wrong sooooooooo many times? Great way to drive home the point JayPea2005 ;D Only wish every bass fisherman could read this post!!!

bassman18, A friend of mine, Randy Howell, said ........."The way I look at it is, it does not matter who is paying your way to fish, as long as it is getting paid." You can read his entire article he had published on http://www.fishfactory.com about obtaining local sponsors. fff

I agree with Glenn (on the LureEyes) I have 2 pairs. The first pair I have had now for over 4 years. They weigh less than an ounce and are very, very durable. So durable that I have worn them fishing, driving on long trips (15 plus hours), and played pool volleyball several hundred times. For the $100 plus dollars invested, I'm down to a cost of about $25.00 per year so far. I think that's pretty cheap sunglasses. I bought my second pair on ebay for about $45.00 http://www.lureeyes.com

Remeber you.............heck yeh I do. I mailed your copy to Virginia last week. Thanks for the shamelss plug. ;D I certainly wasn't expecting that. If you ever get to be at an event Randy is fishing at, go up and introduce yourself - he's very approachable. You're right nwgabassmaster - that is why Randy is on my pro staff. FFF

As far as sending out a resume goes I would recommend that you wait to see if your potential sponsor would like to see one in the first place. I have a number of people on my "pro staff" and I have never seen their resume. One of them happens to be Randy Howell and obviously he didn't need to sjhow me a resume. But, the other handful of guys that are on my pro staff have never sent me a resume and I've never asked for one. When I fished tournaments I never had a resume prepared. The main reason why - there was nothing to put on it!! I always told my potential sponsors what I would be doing for them in the future. How many tournaments I'd be fishing. How many people I could put them in front of. Etc. And like reddman, I had very few fishing company sponsors, maybe 2 or 3 - and they were business associates. So as far as a resume is concerned I "might" put something together in case you get in a jam, but other than that I'd focus on preparing a long list of things you will do to promote your sponsor. A long list. My 2 cents............. fff

I agree wholeheartedly with same!!!!! Bravo!!!

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Top Notch, Class act!!!! It doesn't get much better than this!!! fff

My number one fish catching tactic is a Zoom, june bug, trick worm rigged with a Gambler Florida rig weight 1/8 ounce. My favorite lure to throw is a Luhr Jensen 1/8 oz. spped trap - crystal crawdad in color. That lure rocks!! fishforfree