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What does it cost you to go fishing ? I'm not talking about boat prices . I mean gas , bait , launch fees , ect... for a day of fun fishing on your day off . I can get away with about $ 25-30 . What every the price it's worth it no doubt.
cisco
02-28-2001, 07:06 PM
It is simply the best course to leave some things unknown. Cost of fishing is one of those things.
>It is simply the best course
>to leave some things unknown.
> Cost of fishing is
>one of those things.
You nailed it. I wouldn't even want to guess at the amount of money I/we spend over a year - planning (and going on) a trip or two into ontario. Whatever the brochure says it costs - that's what it cost. all the other stuff NEVER gets added in. If most of us added it up to the penny and told our wives there would be a lot of us staying home !!
lobo
Do you fish to live or live to fish? If it is the first, you can't afford to do it and if it is the second, you can't afford not to.
Fallsman
03-01-2001, 03:59 AM
Once I was asked the question "How much do those walleye end up costing you?" My reply was about $950 per lbs. Leave sleeping dogs lie, some things are better not talked about ....... this is one of them! ;-)
SUPERTROLLER
03-01-2001, 04:34 AM
I'm not afraid to add an estimate to answer your question. If I go by myself; it's about $20.00 total for gas, bait, and a couple bottles of pop. If I split the gas with my partner I'm looking at $14.32,,,,, give or take a nickel. Those big motors and waters you guys choose to fish are hitting you alot harder than us little guys on the small waters. Season pass at the boat launch works out to about $1.00 a day and my travel to the lake is 3 miles, so I didn't add them into the total because their cost is negligible in relation to a single day of fishing. I think it costs me more money to go to a movie than what I spend in a single day of fishing and my partner in the boat doesn't want half of my popcorn!
The Great Guide
03-01-2001, 06:26 AM
More than I should spend, less than I want to spend. TGG
A Bargain
03-01-2001, 07:20 AM
I travel 70 miles....breafast out, fuel, boat launch, equipment depreciation, lost equipment, lost time at work (I could work OT if I wanted to), bait, ect ect. I could figure it out but why bother. I could have worse hobbies.
Backwater Eddy
03-01-2001, 07:53 AM
All that hidden cost is what makes a guide so cheap in comparison.
That is a completely unbiased opinion coming from me don't ya know.
:)
Backwater Eddy
This sounds like a question posed from some environmental or anti fishing group. Dont answer it! I guarentee that they will tell our wives.
cisco
03-01-2001, 08:55 AM
You are absolutely right. (I'm not a guide, incidentally.)
Just think of all the places you could stay, all the new and fully equipped boats you could fish from, and all you could learn if you spent boat, motor, trailer, maintenance, two vehicle, rods, reels, lures, on and on, for guides throughout the country?
Unless someone is a pro, a guide himself, or hits the water in excess of 150 days per year, I'm convinced it's much, much cheaper to hire a guide and take charter trips. If I took 20 guided trips at $175, it would cost $3,500 for the year.
CI_Guy
03-01-2001, 08:59 AM
Food and a few sodas shouldn't count in the cost of fishing. I'd eat a meal and drink the sodas even if I wasn't fishing. This rationalization probably brings the cost of the walleye down to $949.00/lb. Still a bargain compared psyco-therapy.
Bugboy
03-01-2001, 09:16 AM
Along with pleasure fishing, I also fish the tournaments.
Alternative? Every night at the bar and a psyco-therapist.
The fishing is still a bargain.
mnjimcarp
03-01-2001, 09:20 AM
a friend of mine had a trip last year that cost $3,400.00. they returned home and had caught 5 fish. they figured the cost per fish was nearly $700.00 each AND THEY WERE HAPPY THEY DIDN'T CATCH ANY MORE!!! Could have been really expensive !
not much
03-01-2001, 09:47 AM
two wives three girlfriends and a half dozen jobs thru the years.........not too much I geuss
stewart
03-01-2001, 12:19 PM
Us really poor people just boot it along rivers.
"Pity the rational man"
Gene Hill
S. IOWA HENK
03-01-2001, 02:17 PM
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I USED TO SMOKE 3 PACKS OF CIGARETTES PER DAY, AND DRINK 3 OR 4 FIFTHS OF BOOZE PER WEEK.(BILL W. AND I ARE GOOD FRIENDS)! I QUIT BOTH, AND BOUGHT A BRAND NEW BOAT AND TRUCK. STILL HAVE MORE MONEY THAN I EVER DID HAVE, EVEN WITH THE PAYMENTS. WIFE EVEN COMPLAINS THAT I DON'T USE THEM ENOUGH. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, MY FISHING IS FREE WITH INTEREST.
YOU JUST CAN'T GET A MORE CLEAR OR UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF GOD'S GLORY THAN FROM A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF A LAKE.
"HENK"
jumbojim
03-01-2001, 03:07 PM
ask my banker
Living in Devils Lake, about 2 miles from a fabulous fishery, I don't have to put many miles on to get to great walleye fishing. During the summer I fish 5 out of seven days a week. Figure 25 bucks in gas and a few lost lures and it adds up fairly quick. Who cares? Money doesn't grow on trees, but I could have other habits that cost a lot more money. What else should I do with my money, fishing is a lot more fun than hanging out in a country club or cruising a mall. If you figure it out in terms of entertainment per hour, it costs a lot less than an amusement park . . . and I have yet to be on a ride as fun as tearing across four footers in a glass boat.
Smitty
03-01-2001, 03:37 PM
I know that feeling. We once had a group of 12 guys go to Eagle Lake in Ontario in the early 80's for an entire week and caught a total of one 9" walleye (which we released).. Let's see, we didn't do American Plan or anything so the trip was around $500 per person, so at $6000 our per lbs cost would be...... Wait, you can't divide by zero!!!
Still had a great time though..
I also agree that is would be cheaper for those of us who don't get out often to do the guided thing, but part of the pleasure is riding around and relaxing in MY boat, going out and coming in whenever I want, etc.. For my own well being, I generally try to avoid finding out what the actual cost is..
I've heard the saying that a day spent fishing adds years to your life. If that's the case, I'll outlive any in history.
As the son of a fisherman who took me with him a lot, and the as the father of an aspiring 7 yearold angler, I can tell you fishing is a cheap hobby compared to the heartaches out there if you have to go "fishing" for your kids.
River_eye
03-01-2001, 04:09 PM
I guide at a resort in the summer months so a for a typical day of fishing, I get paid. But on my day off it costs me nothing, free bait and gas. Good deal if you ask me. :-)
River eye
water_wolf
03-01-2001, 04:59 PM
Id tell ya.....but then my wife will have to kill me.
Rich
Buckeye
03-01-2001, 05:23 PM
hey Super.....was your boat and insurance free? I don't even want to know what my hourly cost of operating my boat is.