How much do you spend?

[Bob Shotter 1]

How much do you spend?

 

I have never really thought about this in any depth until this year what with the squeeze and all but I have just done a wreckie on my fishing cost for the year and have to say wow HOW MUCH!!!

 

Bottom end gear weights hook swivels trace etc £150

Line four time 300yards of Braid £120

New Rods two £350 both on special

Flotation suite £85 on special

Reel service £65

Total on Gear £770

 

Then there are the trips and I have been on quite a few this year so lets call it £1000 which is close and then there is the fuel and bait ball park figure £300

 

So total spend £2070

 

Fun had priceless

 

So is this, a lot, a little, or avrage How much have you spent?

[n4lly 91]

Has a quick count up in the head, would say about £ 3000.--

 

That does include a new top end boat rod and reel.

 

Plus a weeks fishing in Norway.

 

A lot of boat trip etc.

 

As my only hobby not too bad realy

Edited December 1, 2010 by n4lly

[barry luxton 537]

Huh, tarts.

 

Favorite drifting reel, 2.5 years old cost £25 quid, ebay, service nil, chuck it over when it seizes

 

favorite boat reel for the biggies cost £25 quid as they couldn't repair me seized one due to lack of service Assume 2.5 years before that one seizes.

 

sold,one 9/0 bought for £100 thirty years ago, sold for £100 this year.

 

two number braid boat rods, second hand £ 75 quid each both re-rung, now two seasons old, so that works out cost effective.

 

One rod ring on me uptider £15, i moaned about the cost of that, i can tell you.

 

Braid, none required this year.

 

Boat trips, loads but don't think about the cost, so that's cheap then. Compared with the missus and her 'meat factory' trips. (henlow)

 

weights, make me own from recovered (church)lead, not really but still make me own.

 

booms, 100 in a pack 3 way swivels, last about five years.

 

Sliders, electrician's cable ties, pence from wicks.

 

have been known to buy hooks and even expensive shads.

 

 

[Worms 221]

Not admitting to it as the wife is computer literate.........but, a similar amount to you N4llie!.......I do love collecting fishing tackle though

[Leon Roskilly 25]

Bought three new boat rods and a couple of reels this year.

 

And a new estuary rod and reel.

 

That was just for starters on sea-tackle and boat trips.

 

 

Took up fly-fishing for trout, so had to kit out fully (as well as fishing fees etc)

 

 

Oh, and a couple of new trotting rods, and some other coarse tackle along with memberships, and all the other bits of tackle and bait.

 

 

I'm a bit scared to tot it all up really!

[Sutton Warrior 0]

Its a good job the tackle industry does not rely on me for a profit. I think about it a lot . . . but have not bought anything significant tackle wise in 5 years . . . I seem to spend about £50-£75 each year on restocking hooks, line and trace/end tackle material, I have a bucket full of leads that are ???? years old.

 

In the summer I buy half a pound of rag per river bass sortie, winter fishing is almost exclusively with wholesale bought unwashed squid as bait . . . Hay I bought 25 lugworm last time out this winter . . . . and my boat costs me around £2000 per annum to moor, fuel and maintain

SW

[Jaffa 0]

Not a lot the last few years:-

 

kayaks cost a lot to begin with then pretty much zero running costs; I don't see the sense in spending big cash on fancy rods or reels that will get dunked in saltwater when £20 cheapo rods and a couple of old reels are more than compensated for by being sat above fish..

 

Sight fishing summer Cod will quite happily take a hook with a bit of cheap wool attached as readily as the ££££ lure from ££luremaster.com; as long as thats lure is being dropped where there are cod..

 

 

Under a £100 for this year i'd guess.

 

Chris

Edited December 2, 2010 by Jaffa

[Jaffa 0]

Bought three new boat rods and a couple of reels this year.

 

And a new estuary rod and reel.

 

That was just for starters on sea-tackle and boat trips.

 

 

Took up fly-fishing for trout, so had to kit out fully (as well as fishing fees etc)

 

 

Oh, and a couple of new trotting rods, and some other coarse tackle along with memberships, and all the other bits of tackle and bait.

 

 

I'm a bit scared to tot it all up really!

 

Go on, tot it all up and reveal just how much money you removed from the UK and sent to China..

[Vagabond 1013]

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Boat trips, loads but don't think about the cost, so that's cheap then.

 

My philosophy entirely.

 

A good day's bass fishing (or any other sort of fishing) - priceless.

[Sportsman 350]

Not as much as I would like and probably more than I should