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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | If most of you are like me you truly dont want to know what this ratio is or better yet allow any of your significant others to get ahold of this top secret information (to be used against you at a later date). Right now I can roughly guess-to-mate that for me its somewhere in the 50-75$ range haha. I spend roughly 50-75$ on gear,gas,new rods & reels,line,tackle and so on per every musky I catch. For me this is fine, some of my buddies deer hunt and by the time they buy their bows, tags, gear plus time invested I always woder how much that #*^@ deer cost. But i guess its all the same in the end!
Whats your Musky to $$$ Ratio? |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | This is not counting the boat, right? Or the truck to pull it? Or boat repairs? Sometimes for funsies around home i'll take one rod and 2 baits out with me, that's it, then wonder what would really change if that's all the gear i owned... |
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Location: Oshkosh | I dont wanna know, way to high!
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Is that $50 - $75 per inch or Per Fish ? 
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | are we still talking about musky fishin John? |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Do I need to include the cabin, boat, engine, gas, insurance, and all the gear ?
If so, once I saw the final figure I'm sure it wouldn't be worth it. That's why I'll never do such a calculation ! |
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Location: MN | Not a calculation that I am willing to figure out. |
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| LMAO
Depends on what you count. Gas, gear, guide trips, truck, boat, rods, reels, lures, cabin on the lake, boat repairs...
I'd bet for most guys, lifetime average per fish would be in the thousands.
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| that would be a scary number to calculate..heck I think I've caught quite a few fish and mine would be around a hundred bucks per fish and this was just rods/reels/lures/boat.
talked to a guy who just got bit by the musky bug and had to get a 621 w/ 300 on it....
now his ratio...ouch! ; )
50's are priceless right?!
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| i am still in denial. decades back i bought enuff to float a boat. i went into the darkside and became a full time b8maker and painter. i figure every fish cost me hundreds and 1 wife. i really dont miss her. . i would miss my baits though. |
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Location: New London, Wisconsin | some of my buddies deer hunt and by the time they buy their bows, tags, gear plus time invested I always woder how much that #*^@ deer cost. But i guess its all the same in the end!
Here's an even more "expensive" thought...how about all the guys that bowhunt and musky fish??? ouch... |
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| Well just the initial boat cost (used Ranger $20k) Im at $71 a fish over the last 5 years. Repairs,gas,lodging, tackle and so on ...well you can double that.... roughly $40k over the last five years.....shhh don't tell the wife  |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | I don't wanna know either.  |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Labs - 7/16/2009 5:07 PM
Here's an even more "expensive" thought...how about all the guys that bowhunt and musky fish??? ouch...
Amen! |
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| muskie_man - 7/16/2009 5:57 PM
Labs - 7/16/2009 5:07 PM
Here's an even more "expensive" thought...how about all the guys that bowhunt and musky fish??? ouch...
Amen!
Now imagine if you do both and gun and duck hunting along with snowmobiling.
Edited by Muskerboy 7/16/2009 6:32 PM
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| At least it is less than my $$$ per tarpon. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | What's the cost of NOT fishing?
What's left of my sanity, so I'll not worry much about it. |
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Location: Southwest Ohio | I just bought my new boat. I am setting at about $9000.00 per fish this year.
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | sworrall - 7/16/2009 9:50 PM
What's the cost of NOT fishing?
What's left of my sanity, so I'll not worry much about it.
This is my answer also. |
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| I try to not reduce Musky fishing to just being about the body count. If you do that, yeah, it costs a lot per fish. But I look at it as a lot bigger picture than that. I enjoy the time out on the water, the comradery, the thrill of the hunt, the scenery, and so on. Of course landing a Musky is always a goal, too. But not exclusively. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | PRICELESS !!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Victor, ID | I will let you know when I catch one! So far I have thousands invested.
I am getting a guide in August, so that will hopefully pay off!
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| The answer is really almost too easy to give. It's stictly a math problem that dictates the fastest way to lower your cost is to increase the time you spend on the water. Since the vast majority of your costs are fixed, the incremental costs of adding muskies by adding the hours you fish for them will ultimately make this a fairly cost-justified activity. The goal is to get rid of all the crap you do in your life that is not musky fishing so that you can make the cost per fish ratio go down faster and farther. Getting this thing to be really economical just might mean that we have to fish all the time, but it is a sacrifice I am prepared to make. Marty Forman |
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Location: Land of the Musky | 8 |
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