how much money do you spend per month?

[wplatehunter]

I guess to much it seems I keep out growing my tackle boxes.

[CNCMike]

open water...$20 month

hard water...$100 month

I never drink more than water when I fish and generally only eat pistachios on the water. so that is just the usual bait, lures, line, etc. Not factoring gas into the mix, of course. Still less than my wife's shoe habit and her $100 every 3 weeks haircut and style.

[buddha]

That is a tough question to answer. I filled up the boat last weekend and that has a 40gal tank, so hopefully that lasts a while. On a general weekend, not counting gas for truck or boat usually very cheap. It's all the stuff that comes with it, lures, new locator, general fixes on equipment can easily run into a couple thousand each year. Even without the locator it doesn't take much to spend cash in this hobby! I love every minute of it.

[herm]

Let's see, per trip, ....

* Live bait - $10 a trip

* Snacks/hooks/misc supplies - $15

* Gas for the truck/boat - $30 and climbing

* The smiles on my kids' and wife's faces when the bobber goes down - PRICELESS!

[Mlaker3]

I am sure I spend $2000+ a year, some years $3000+, on fishing, not counting boat/motor/trailer. Ice fishing can be spendy too. Don't let me get started on waterfowl hunting (my real passion). Quality time I spend with my kids, and what am I working for? Don't tell my wife, but I think she knows already.

[shizzy]

I really dont spend much. I have a canoe so I dont have to put gas in it. I usually spend around $50 or so on new lures and such for the season, but thats about it. I really only fish in the metro,so no huge investments in gas for my truck.

[upnorth]

Afraid to keep track of it..If I knew being kinda cheapo I probably stay home

[fishgutz77]

I used to drink about 400-500$ a month when I was young and smoked two packs of reds a day. I quite drinking 21 years ago and smoking 5 years ago.

Even after spending 45K+ on a boat and electronics I'm still saving money fishing. It's part of what makes me not want to do other things that cost way more in the long run.

I would say about 150-200$ a month now.

[The_Lee]

I would say, that I have spent about $250/month.

Take it, I am newer to fishing so I am catching up on equipment and such.

[hoggs222]

It depends for me. Sometimes I'll get a hair up my a$$ and go out and buy a $400 rod/reel combo and other times it's just bait, gas, etc.

Oh yeah! and a new net at trophy's when I forget it in the garage for some reason.

[jasondittrich]

well just got a new boat this year so it needed stuff. locator life jackets new rods and reels (more storage than last boat) anchors jigs raps line bobbers anchor ropes buffing compound (green bouy on river) all sorts of stuff added up recipts last month and not including the $13,000 for the boat we have spent a combined total (Dad and I) $3800 since december all i can say is that we better catch a [PoorWordUsage] of alot of fish this year

[paul pachowicz]

FELLAS!!!!!! My advise....NEVER!!!!! EVER!!!! count the money you spend on a vice or hobby!!!!!!!

[Sandmannd]

Way too much, gas is the big chunk though.

[fishinJohn]

No matter what I spend I could always use something else. For me it depends on how much I have at the time. I generally never regret it though, except when I put power pro on my first baitcaster, went to practice in the yard, went for a monstor cast with a heavy weight and formed a terrible snag and I still have to cut it off when I get a half hour.

[joeyquicksand*]

too much... I think once i get that one thing then i'll pretty much have everything i need except that other thing that i need to get the baseplate for the other thing and then its musky opener and then its rainy then its cold then its hot and still and those things in row three at joes had that one thing that whats his name said was working and since my battery... etc..... too much

[Jeffrey]

DITTO!!!!!

[fishnhuntnboy]

I have a feeling I am going to be spending a lot of money this summer. Not sure about each month. I have a feeling that I'm not going to be able to sell my car so I will most likely be going to gander and cabelas quite a bit and getting new rods/reels and more tackle. Like I need more. lol. Which I always need more.

[TCon17]

With three trips to the cabin since ice-out, and 3 or 4 trips to cabela's/GM, gas to get up there at $50 a trip, bait, and food... I dont wanna know...

[Sandmannd]

With three trips to the cabin since ice-out, and 3 or 4 trips to cabela's/GM, gas to get up there at $50 a trip, bait, and food... I dont wanna know...

50 bucks to get to your cabin???? Wher is it.... New Brighton???

[paceman]

A couple hundred pretty easily..... Perhaps more in the early season and then not so much during the dog days....And then comes the hunting seasons....Life is good!!!!!!!!

[snoozebutton]

More then I should, but less then I'd like to.

Agree!!! Are we counting boat payments? If not, then it's around $50 to $75.

[YourBobersDown]

my wife works at Gander Mountain and the employee discount is killing me. spent over $6,000 there last year and most of that was at 40% off or more. I think employee discount is an old indian word for make man spend more!

[Sandmannd]

my wife works at Gander Mountain and the employee discount is killing me. spent over $6,000 there last year and most of that was at 40% off or more. I think employee discount is an old indian word for make man spend more!

They aren't dummies. Much better to pay your wife, give her a good discount and then you turn around and spend the money back to the store. So they really aren't paying her what they say they are

That's the evil of working at a great store and why I can't work there or Cabelas. I'd be loosing money.

[saunasisu]

I generally spend much more during the winter months leading up to the open water season with the cabin fever kicking in. To be honest, I have no idea how much I have spent and am afraid to check. Like one person wrote, "my biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it."

[SWMuskeye]

Well over $100/mo. on gas/bait alone! Especially when the boat costs $100 to fill up as well as my truck! Like many others have said I can't leave a bait store without spending $20-50 on junk I don't need.

I probably fish a minimum of 10 days a month though....

Come to think of it- $100/mo would be really light...I don't want to think about actual expenditures.