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Over the course of your fishing career, how much has each pound of fish you've taken home cost ? Include in the calculation - your time(calculate at your current wage), all gear purchased(boats, tackle, gas, bait, time off, special fishing trips(like out of town), physical recovery from the trips, etc.
Don't count any fish that were released, got away or rotted in your freezer - just the ones that made it to the dinner table and got eaten.
I kind of gave up trying to count somewhere around the GNP of most third world nations. But it was a fun thought experiment - and I have come to realize that I certainly cannot claim that I fish for the food value alone.
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You're right. I forgot to include the "therapy replacement costs". I don't know how much therapists charge for their sevices, and I am not sure whether to add or deduct it from the total expenditures. Figures you would interject some variable that was heretofor neglected. Hmmm... more number crunching.
BTW - I too have been deluding myself with the cost effectiveness of fishing for a long time - I rationalized that what ever it took, was somehow good for me and society as a whole, to get me off the street, so to speak.
P.S. Go down your stairs and look around - then come back up and tell me again - just how much did those fillets cost you ? LOL ! I'll bet upon a little reflection, you'll find those fishies are tasting better all the time.
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I should have known, of course you would bring appreciation and depreciation to the table for calculation. Another thing occurs to me that I forgot to include, is the amount of money I have saved when I bought some fishing stuff on sale. Now, how do I cypher that in ?
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Forget time, tackle, gas, and equipment - I don't catch enough fish to pay off my licence!
If someone started a ebay store selling lures, it would make sense to try them out first in order to write tips and techniques. With such a bussiness, could you write off your fishing trips as bussiness expenses?
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I was thinking about this exact thing the other day. I was remembering back to when I was a kid and had ONE fishing pole that I used for everything. I would use that pole for bass in the lake in my back yard in florida, I would take that same pole to Tampa Bay for some salt water action. I would throw breadballs on a hook 1/0 hook in the lake in my back yard and catch catfish and sunfish and blue gill. I had one pack of plastic worms some 1/0 hooks and 1 1000 yard spool of the 10 lb test bulk monofilament from walmart ($1.57) and if I could manage to not get it hung up I usually had a ratltrap for the bass (big cost lure for a kid at about $4). If I wanted to go salt water I would stop off at one of the bait shacks for $2 worth of shrimp and go to the pier.
I took an inventory over the weekend and now I have 4 fishing poles (1 ultralite, 1 medium spinning reel, 1 baitcaster reel, and 1 huge Saltwater/ Large UL Kittie spinning reel. 6 or 7 bags of plastics some rappalas, tons of hooks weights 3 or 4 different lines and other sundries yet i don't seem to catch as many fish in the as back in the day. In fact I was skunked at Jordanelle over the weekend. Seems like I just need to stop buyin' and start fishin'. Still though theres no better therapy than getting out on the water. Even with the skunk stinkin' over the weekend I still couldn't believe 4 hours of fishing could go so fast. Seems fun always works that way.
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Guys,
That therapy thing is right on. Fishing is the best therapt in the world for me & I happen to know what a good therapist costs. My sister is a Ph.D therapist & she gets $100.00 an hour. Factor in $800.00 for a good 8 hr. fishing trip & the fish on the table is a bonus.
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Hey guys lets keep this on the down low because my wife still thinks fishing is cheaper than golf and I want to keep it that way.[  ]
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[#505000]Unless you are buying a high dollar boat fishing IS cheaper than golf. That is one expensive sport!!![/#505000]
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That is what inspired me to post this. I was looking at my tackle and saw some of my "old" stuff that used to work great for me. Then for some reason I accumulated a ton more. For years, I only had one fishing pole and a small box with tackle that covered every fishing situation that I encountered and I always caught fish. Now, I need a truck to just haul my gear around, and a whold room in the house just to keep it together - I could be wrong, but, I don't think I catch that many more fish now even though I have more tackle - I just do it differently with different stuff.
My philosophy - You can't have too much stuff that might catch a fish.
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Boy these little slimers get expensive when you look at it like that, i think that it is a indefinate answer because we fisherfolks are almost always adding more to our arsenal, be it lures, bait, rods, reels, line.
then you have got to factor in the damage from hooks in the hands, spines from bass and panfish impailing the hands, lost lures, plus the gas and time spent getting to and from and around any body of water.
Then there are the theraputic benifits
But you can look at it this way, if you manage to make it out to a close to home water with out buying or losing any tackle or sanity, the fish get cheeper each time you bring one home.
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WOW $800 a day ? I think with that number on the table for the benefit side of the equation, I could be in the black - not the red ! Considering how many days I have fished in my life, at $800 per day...WOW !
The therapy things rules !
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[size 1]"But you can look at it this way, if you manage to make it out to a close to home water with out buying or losing any tackle or sanity, the fish get cheeper each time you bring one home."[/size]
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[size 1]Now there's a big "if". I always seem to buy and loose some tackle on fishing trips - even when close to home. However, you bring up an important point - When I can successfully get to the water, what I loose in "tackle", I gain in "sanity". Somehow, it's probably a "Win/Win situation for me and the rest of society.[/size]
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I can't believe this post hasn't been deleted. This is a subject that never should be discussed. How can anyone respond to this post? What if I were to make these calculations and my wife were to read it?
The key phrase to sprinkle repeatedly into any conversation about fishing or hunting is "free meat."
Keep your fishing rods and reels scattered in several different locations. That makes it difficult to get an accurate count. Otherwise you run the risk of hearing something like:
"Last month you had six fishing poles in the garage and now there are nine. Where did the other poles come from?'
If ever asked the question, "How many fishing poles do you have?" The proper response is, "It is difficult to say," or "I'm not really sure." Never respond with a number unless it is a gross exaggeration. "I'm not really sure. Six or seven hundred, I guess."
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I couldn't agree more. I live by the motto "What she don't know can't hurt me"
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LOL ! Make sure you do the calulations only in your mind - not on paper where there would be evidence to be discovered.
"[size 1]If ever asked the question, "How many fishing poles do you have?" The proper response is, "It is difficult to say," or "I'm not really sure." Never respond with a number unless it is a gross exaggeration. "I'm not really sure. Six or seven hundred, I guess." "[/size]
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[size 1]I like this answer - vague, be very vague - of course in my case, I really do not have an idea of exactly how much stuff I actually have. The inventory alone would take up a good deal of my alotted fishing time. I use the S.W.A.G. approach - Silly Wild Arse Guess.[/size]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]My Biggest worry is that when I'm dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]--Koos Brandt[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.[/size][/font]
--Henry David Thoreau
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LOL - that quote from Thoreau is one of my favorites ! However, the Brandt quote I had never head - Now that could become one of my favorites - LOL !
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Boat: $35,000
Tackle and related gear:$4,000
Peace of mind: Priceless[]
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