This subject was touched upon earlier in another thread but here goes:
What is ALL your flyfishing related “stuff” worth or how much did all of it cost you. Obviously, if flyfishing is your BUSINESS, never mind.
Just wondering how high is your fever?
If you feel this is a privacy issue,disregard the post.
My " stuff" is probably under $1200 total but soon to be an additional $1800 for Hobie purchase.
Mark
PS: oooopps, + $500, forgot waders and vise.
I’d rather be in Wyoming!
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6 cheapy rods
6 matching cheapy reels
6 assorted lines
12 packs of maxima
18(rods,lines,reels) * $50(average) = $900
2 vhs-c video cameras
batteries
camera tapes = $650
2 hip waders = $100
1 vest = $50
gadgets(nippers, fly cases, liter, etc) = $60
fly vises = $70
fly tying gear(furs, feathers etc), unknown, safe estimate $1100
Of course these are initial costs, and just rounded estimates, and not current value, I’m sure I’m not into it like most money wise, but I’ve spent a fair penny on it none the less.
That’s a Grand existing total of $2930, modest figures I expect compared to most of you.
Opps, tripod, creel and two small hand nets, add another $100, YEAH!!! I broke $3000
later
Mike
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I have things I scarcely remember what I paid for…
There was a period of ebay purchases that could only be described as a storm…
Mostly bamboo rods…a few other thing’s…Two Hobies…
Dozens of rods…and reels to match most of them…not all high dollar stuff mind you but I have not even touched on fly tying material’s,
Rod building material’s,Rod kits still floating around here…
That I just don’t have the time to commit to…I shudder to think of what’s invested in equip…Wader’s, Times three pair now…Two pair of wading shoes, Two wading staff’s…
Two chest pack’s…why two of so much stuff…Take to much band width to answer that… LOL…
OK I’m getting a Migraine…
Why on earth would you ask such a Q Marco…and with the Wife sitting here!!!..
Can I count this Dell It sure has been a tool for a Hella lot of Purchases,and Info on tying,Fishing, You name it…I’d be lost and still wearing out Cabela’s catalog’s…
and what of money lost upon selling Canoes,Boat Motors,Jon Boat… Rod’s Ect. Ect…To sell most fishing stuff you’d lose big time…
Just a side note…I was single for 33 of my soon to be 36 years…all those little gadget’s I don’t use or carry…Why ask such Q’s…Maybe I’m a bigger candidate for the for sale board than I’d like to admit…
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Just a note to any newcomers to the sport who are lurking around … some of us have quite a bit of $$ in equipment, … but as Bill mentionned, … it’s from YEARS of scrounging, accumulating etc.
Fly fishing can be a really “frugal” sport too. A few wets, an extra spool of tippet material, a nicely balanced rod/reel/line combo, a sunny day and you’re all set
DH easily has $1,000 in equipment. The kids probably have a hundred or so each tied up. I have something in-between. I’m the family’s flytier (although the kids are starting to tie their own–which can be interesting at times), and there’s a very dangerous store where I can’t resist getting a different color thread, wire, etc. when we visit. Getting out of the store for $10 is a good day. $30 seems to be the average this year. I’m not going to estimate what is in my bench. That’s like asking me how much my genealogy hobby costs… The thing I treasure most is my dad’s old metal tackle box. He had that since the 50s or 60s. As the commercial goes: priceless.
Too painful to contemplate…especially fly tying materials that I bought thinking, “Well, I might as well buy this now, because Im going to need it someday and its probably a lifetime supply…etc.” The accessories can kill 'ya too!
Just incase I forget to exit this site and my wife happens to see this board and post, I will not mention the “perceived” value of my FF gear let alone having the cost in written form which as you know are potential causes for divorce I fear
Let’s just say $40/mo x4years. Duh, my wife is a bookeeper- as if she couldn’t figure that out. Now I have to burry this post with nonsense about how to earn fishing credits by laying 400sqft of laminate flooring the entire last weekend. But wait, I saved about a grand which now added to FF budget next 2 years. Now I just have to keep her from thinking the same for purses and shoes.
God Blesses!
A wing & a Prayer! ----*<(((><~ ~ ~ ~
Quinn
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Its not the total price as it hasn’t ended and probably never will. The amount of enjoyment, frustration and the never ending learning experience make it a priceless entertaining sport.
Wednesday,
DH was in an sports-car rally before I met him. It’s a treasure hunt of sorts. (First day, given a map something like, "At the start line, go forward 13.4 miles, turn left; at 20 mph, drive for 21 minutes, turn left; at the large tree with the green square, turn right.) From his stories, it was amusing.
To get to the point, someone–one year–brought a truck to the rally. Some sports car owners went to the head-guru to protest this truck. The man replied, “A sports car is any car that makes you smile.” The drivers went away satisfied.
I’m sure you have earned a LOT of fishing credits–besides the flooring–by making your wife smile.
It all balances out in the end. If her eyes still twinkles and she still laughs–you have done well.
Well…an assortment of rods reels canoe and accessories, more flies than fish, fly tying stuff, books, maps, waders, boots dinners for getting home late, etc etc etc…about…wait there is something else I’m about to buy…that urge happens so often it is hard to add up…sorry!!! there it goes again…www.fishing stuff…
The best time to go fishing is when it’s raining and when it’s not
In answer to your question: I’ve been fishing for 65 years so you ARE kidding right? Of course you are.
RW
“Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn’t determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.” <John Gierach>
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I’m with Buzz. I have no clue, although some of the dead chickens I’m using have been in KFC Heaven for a long, long time. I wouldn’t have a clue, although I’m fairly frugal – though not as much so as Wrangler. Whoops, he just cashed in on a brand new split cane. So I’m more frugal than Wrangler and that is saying a whole lot. JGW
Just like asking a lady her age … ya dont ask a fisherman how much his toys are worth … man never putes in print what he spends where his wife my find it or … where it may be used as leverage by his buddies to get the recipe of a secret fly or honey hole…
The more time I spend around people the more I like my dog.
I am a lady and I am NOT going to tell you may age, weight or true hair color. But my ol’ man and me are definit fly fishing junkies. 2 Cardiac Canyons + trailer, two Adventure Outdoors Echo’s + another trailer, two SFC just for the still waters. Then with the 30 rods between us being Winston, Sage and upper end Orvis plus the LA (BFR) CFO’s (BFR) Hardey’s…
OH MY GOD! I could have had that house on the hill and that Hummer to go with it!
Again, several years of accumilation…LOL
