Fishing Cruises? Is There A Market?

So I’m sat in my local watering hole the other day with the lads, and we get talking about holidays, and this is where (like so many) the topic for my blog came from today.

Now it’s not something that I’m personally interested in, but four of five of my pals are really into their fishing, they travel all over the country, and even a bit further sometimes to try out the fishing in various different places.

Scotland, Wales, various places in England, a couple of them have even done it in places like Mexico, Australia and Thailand!

They make a massive deal out of it, and genuinely have a real passion for it.

Like I said, it’s not for me, but if a bunch of 30 somethings are prepared to go all that way to stick a rod in the sea, it makes me wonder how many others would be interested in the same thing.

You see, the latter half of the conversation with them was them poking me for info about cruises. Them wanting to do maybe a week fishing and then a week luxury on a nice ship somewhere. Which is why I started to wonder about whether or not there could be a bigger demand for it.

From what I can gather, fishing seems to be very much a male orientated hobby. So it might be nice for groups of mixed couples for example, if the guys went off and did their fishing for a week, whilst the girls enjoy the destination, beaches, shopping, food & drink etc – to be honest I’d prefer that but you see what I mean.

I’ve booked people on activity based cruises before now, mainly focusing around sport like golf, or motor racing, but I would love to know if there are people out there that would do a cruise and stay with a fishing activity for some of the trip?

So any opinions welcome!

Thanks for reading, and as always, until next time………………