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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | HOW MUCH PER DAY DOES IT COST YOU TO GO FISHING? FOR REAL ! TRY TO FACTOR IN FUEL AND COST OF OWNERSHIP OR LOSS OF TACKLE OR MAINTANANCE ON GEAR. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | i figured20/ trip interest only lost on owning boat set up for big water. 45 (average 50 miles )in fuel between boat and truck 30 for bait ice and soda snacks, launch fee. insurance and ware and tear on gear and boat. 20 estimate 2 trips a week at 115 a trip its 920 without stopping to eat a month . for 8 months out of the year figure 8,000 a year. without too much new gear. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | thaught it would be interesting when the state comes up with numbers, some fish out of small boats or from shore some in larger boats.some take long trips or canida , i dint factor in tournaments the few that i do , but for many i know it is more reasonable just seriously thinking about taking up a new hobie when i add it all up. |
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| Brad I would say you are pretty darn close!!! Granted it depends on what size pickup and craft you have!
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| Priceless to me now my wife that is not what she thinks???
Like a good sale I keep telling her look how much money I am saving by bringing diner home!!! |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | ya good point guys lets not bring it up... maybe we should put an end to this post forever!!!!!!! im thinking now with a few tournies im at about 10 grand and i am fortunate to have a good record and prob break even on tournys on my home water... and then there is ICE ! omg... i have to take up gambling and prostitution and drinking , might be cheeper. lol think the wife would go for it? maybe ill stick to fishing. |
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| I can tell you that it cost between 300-400 per day out on the tour, thats if you figure every expense. Entry-tackle-bait-fuel-food-motel-misc. Fishing is very expensive if you want to do at a high level. Based on a 10 day trip and depending on how far away it is, it costs roughly $4,000 per event when it's all said and done. These of course do NOT include the 35-60 thousand people are spending on boats and motors(loaded up). If you figured that in also (of course most Hope to break even on re-sale) then 50 days worth of tour fishing a year comes to (1000 per day and up to 1600 per day). Of course this also does not include the cost and wear and tear on your truck. God I hate to even figure this stuff out! I'm glad the wife never reads stuff on fishing sites!
If I just take the kids out it's about $50-100 a day for fun. |
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| This last weekend. I put $56 in the truck to travel to GB and back from just west of Appletown. Put $50 in the boat and spent another $10 on ice, water, a candy bar, and sandwich.
Granted I didn't use all the fuel, at the same time, I already had about 7-8 dozen crawlers with, and didn't account for wear and tear/maint. cost.
on avg. I'd say it's probably in the $50-$150 range depending on where I travel to fish. |
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Location: upper michigan | I live in upper Michigan my last trip to green bay cost me $250 for one day of fishing its 100 miles one way travel. |
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| Jayman,
I'm right there with you, I spend about $100 on gas, ice, crawlers, 1 Quick Trip sandwich (Cuban w/pickle), a couple bottles of water and a partial fill on my boat (25+6)=31 Gallons of fuel for each trip to GB. My truck gets a whopping 8mpg pulling my boat.
My wife saw that I have 4 tackle boxes of just crankbaits for the Bago system and starting asking questions, I tried to quickly changed the subject, but she brought it back to the cost of gas, there was no way out and I had to fess up. I told her I spend about $30.00 per fishing trip and she told me that I can only go once a week. But then I reminded her that I don't ice fish, smoke, drink and all I do fish for a hobby and that I was providing fish for the family (I give 90% of what I catch away).
I actually kept track of my fishing expenses last year, I spent over $7,000 without buying a whole lot of new equipment and it surprised me how expensive a hobby it is. So how do all these guys with the $50,000 Walleye boats afford to fish?
I'm not sure it is worth it anymore! Do you guys ask your guest to split the cost of when you invite them to come along?
Afraid to tell who |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I have pretty accurate record keeping for my events the last 7 years, and the per day to fish the FLW or PWT has risen significantly with the rising costs of fuel, travel, lodging, entry fee, and other expenses. I usually take 4-5 days of prefishing for an event and my average cost this year is around $2,700 per event, with the high side being Devils Lake due to the drive. Imagine pulling my boat for 1735 miles and averaging 12.7 mpg diesel.....it's like throwing $3 out the window every 12 miles for the entire trip!!! And that doesn't include boat gas!!! Thank God this last event is only 155 miles from home!!! |
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| Gas in the Boat 40.00 Gas in the Truck 10.00 bait and launch fees 10.00. Getting away from the honey do list.....Priceless
Good luck
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| think of a large sum of money, then double or triple it!  |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | wow nothing between 10 and 20 bux..  oh well. thanks for the imput , gives a guy an idia of what it costs to jump into something you love . want to be a big walleye stick.. get out the check book , |
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| "I'm not sure it is worth it anymore! Do you guys ask your guest to split the cost of when you invite them to come along?
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Afraid to tell,
I don't expect anything from the guests that I take with other than appreciation. I take a lot of people out in a course of a year. many of these people will show some kind of appreciation in the form of a beer or several or toss me some money for gas or bring the worm...On the contrary, people who just take...take...take..usually don't get invited back after a couple of trips.
A lot of it just depends on who it is and the situation. |
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| A cup of coffie at the local gas station $1.50
A gallon of gas $3.29
A limit of walleyes.....PRICELESS!!! |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | fall fishing is cheeper,,, went out by myself,, cost me nothing in fuel because i had some in the boat , had crawlers left over in the fridge... a half eaten bag of potato chips in the boat along with some bottled water and a soda.. didnt need any jigs or hooks or anything ,, the avantages of a true fishing machine in stead of a big sparkly show boat is that you have plenty of terminal tack laying around in the glove box and corners of your compartments and floor.. didnt need to spend a dime other than the fee at the ramp,,,, oh and a pack of nails ,,,, its amaising i could eat for a week on what i found for snacks in the boat ,,,, thanks to taking my kids fishing many times this year.. only a small bag of ice to throw my fish on as i am no longer permitted to dive my fish home in the live well full of water(VHS),, when i got home wile i was out fishing i thaught id use my live well for something so i did a load of laundry and dishes wile i was out,,, my wife was pleased and i even mannaged to bring home dinner... i had a bit of a tummy ache ,,, didnt each much dinner... but that pipe chicken salad sandwich i had in the boat was delish.. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | no the reason i braught this back is because i think i got the cost of a fishing expidition under 20 dollars for the first time this year,, already did the servey so its too late. i snuck out to the lake , i always throw a hodge podge tackle bag i put togather in the garage in my truck and as usual i did... put my cell phone in it and my wallet and stuff ,,,, , i forgot it on my workbench... i was able to build or run any fishcatching operation i wanted too with crap laying around in my boat that i didnt have in its propper place... i had some good cranks some slip bobbers layin around pleny of hooks and jiggs in the carpet or under my councel,, i had all i needed ,, food water , you name it.... spend 6 hours ,, had my five walleyes and 11 nice perch,,, caught a big kitty and some smallies too.... phone rang off the hook on the work bench at home until my wife went in the garage and herd it beeping,,, all alone it was one of my best late afternoons i had... and lets see , small bag of ice 2.50 pack of smokes 3.00 launch pass brothertown harbor 6.00 the gas was in the truck and boat already,, im not going to count it.... the chips though stale still yummy bbQ flavor and i was in like a burgler,,,,, my boat might not be clean enough for the hooters girls to sit on it but it once agian got the job done... |
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Location: Rhinelander | I have so much good water close to me it's easy to spend under $5 to get there and back and less than $10 on boat gas...small lakes rock! |
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