What's in your bag?
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@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
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@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
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@irj said in What's in your bag?:
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@irj said in What's in your bag?:
One of the best ways to identify a veteran fisherman vs an inexperienced one is by the size of his tackle box. Less is more. The better fisherman I become the less lures I carry. It's the opposite of what most people think..
What do you need other than a laptop to make connector whatever you need to access?
That's pretty funny. Except that a real fisherman has a frickin' boat and nets. Tackle box is for amateurs. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Using a net is much easier than fishing lures. With a net, you only need to find fish. Find bait fisherman needs to find and hook the fish. The sport fisherman needs to find, lure and hook in the fish.
While fishing with a net yeilds the most numbers, obviously it doesn't translate to more pay. The highest paid fishermen are sport fishermen. Obviously the sponsored tournament guys are millionaires, but many local guys do quite well. Sport fishing charters often charge $700-1000 a day. We have about 100 of them just in our county. We are a big tourist area, but most areas have 10-20 of those guys in each area around The US. I know of many fishing guides and charters around the world as well.
I understand what you're saying - I have a friend that's really into fly fishing. But sports fishing is still small potatoes to the commercial fishing industry. They make billions.
Sport fishing has 110 billion dollar industry in just US.
That's like $300 per citizen (including babies, prisoners, etc.), per year. I have no idea what the fishing population is like, but the cost of sport fishing must be enormous. My own experience is that @irj is the only fisher I know, anywhere. Seems like the cost for fishing is huge.
Even assuming as many as one out of ten people are avid fishers, and that seems extremely high, that's $3,000 to fish every year for life.
$3k a year spent on fishing is not uncommon at all.
It couldn't be given the size of the market. But 1:10 people as avid fishers seems extreme.
Really $10k isn't uncommon at all. Some may spend $30-50k on offshore stuff a year easily.
That's crazy.
Boat maintenance, storage, and fuel is really expensive.
Very true. It adds up.
In NY, fishing tends to be waders in a creek. Not ships out at sea.
It's still more expensive than you think for a casual fisherman. Trout fishing requires alot of flies and fly fishering itself is very expensive. Rods go from $200-800.
Alot of guys in NY can even get to $3k in a year. It just depends on how many different types of fishing you do and how often you do it. It's not a cheap hobby
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@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@stacksofplates said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@pete-s said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
@pete-s said in What's in your bag?:
@irj said in What's in your bag?:
One of the best ways to identify a veteran fisherman vs an inexperienced one is by the size of his tackle box. Less is more. The better fisherman I become the less lures I carry. It's the opposite of what most people think..
What do you need other than a laptop to make connector whatever you need to access?
That's pretty funny. Except that a real fisherman has a frickin' boat and nets. Tackle box is for amateurs. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Using a net is much easier than fishing lures. With a net, you only need to find fish. Find bait fisherman needs to find and hook the fish. The sport fisherman needs to find, lure and hook in the fish.
While fishing with a net yeilds the most numbers, obviously it doesn't translate to more pay. The highest paid fishermen are sport fishermen. Obviously the sponsored tournament guys are millionaires, but many local guys do quite well. Sport fishing charters often charge $700-1000 a day. We have about 100 of them just in our county. We are a big tourist area, but most areas have 10-20 of those guys in each area around The US. I know of many fishing guides and charters around the world as well.
I understand what you're saying - I have a friend that's really into fly fishing. But sports fishing is still small potatoes to the commercial fishing industry. They make billions.
Sport fishing has 110 billion dollar industry in just US.
That's like $300 per citizen (including babies, prisoners, etc.), per year. I have no idea what the fishing population is like, but the cost of sport fishing must be enormous. My own experience is that @irj is the only fisher I know, anywhere. Seems like the cost for fishing is huge.
Even assuming as many as one out of ten people are avid fishers, and that seems extremely high, that's $3,000 to fish every year for life.
$3k a year spent on fishing is not uncommon at all.
It couldn't be given the size of the market. But 1:10 people as avid fishers seems extreme.
Really $10k isn't uncommon at all. Some may spend $30-50k on offshore stuff a year easily.
That's crazy.
Boat maintenance, storage, and fuel is really expensive.
Very true. It adds up.
In NY, fishing tends to be waders in a creek. Not ships out at sea.
It's still more expensive than you think for a casual fisherman. Trout fishing requires alot of flies and fly fishering itself is very expensive. Rods go from $200-800.
Alot of guys in NY can even get to $3k in a year. It just depends on how many different types of fishing you do and how often you do it. It's not a cheap hobby
And I like fish (to eat), a lot. And that seems like a lot
