How much will you spend on fishing gear in 2011 ?

[ellicat]

excluding petrol motors, boats, canoes, kayaks, water vessels of any type whose main purpose is to carry a person or persons, shacks by the sea, bush shantys and lean-to's, dwelling houses, tents, caravans, campers and any other unit of housing, both 2 and 4 wheeled vehicles, vehicles with more than 4 wheels, unicycles, manual and machine driven vehicles and ostriches or other animals that can be ridden or used to as beasts of burden to pull a sled or other device to manoeuvre the angler to a fishing place?

[nadders]

aiming for as little as possible, i got lures sorted shouldn't need any rods/reels so it's down to how much leader and line i use.

boat wise, well thats another story :whistle:

[Leighton]

Ha Ha I am $1200 down and its only the 4th :blush:

[bigtez]

Do canoes and kyaks count as boats?

[ellicat]

Do canoes and kyaks count as boats?

Question has now been reworded :dry:

[Bommie]

what about the teleport machine I got for xmas, does it include that?

[taib]

trailer approx $500, tow ball for trailer $900, bow mount approx. 500... petrol, bait... would prob be around $2200.00 however aiming for under $2k, however i think realistically it would be around $3500.00 :pinch:

[straddiebrad]

i will go over the 2000 plan to get two good off-shore spin reels

[shortie]

i will spend exactly $623.25

[Do$tylz]

$2k???... hahaha... If my fishing spend is anything like it has been over the last year I'll be smashing that.

[Doobsy]

I'm hoping to stay under $1K this year...

Spent a butt-load in 2010...

[Zim man]

in theory, after this past year's budget blowout, i will be trying to keep it looking reasonable, In reality though,the spending machine will keep going on

[bigtez]

Do canoes and kyaks count as boats?

Question has now been reworded :dry:

I think you left out SWMBO bribes?

[bootyinblue]

What exactly is the question again?

[mac]

i would love to have a good quality rod & reel this year

k mart gets me by

i would like to try quality for a change and feel the difference

maybe James mac could start saving for fathers day

HINT shimano or dawia

:laugh:

[Damien2Rad]

At the moment, nothing over $500 for an individual piece or item.

In the last few days since Christmas I've spent over $200 on Lures.

$300 and something on Heartland XA

$160 on two spools of Castaway PE

$69 on a Sienna

$30 on some Platil braid

Coupla spools of Sunline Rockfish fluro carbon

Annnnd I think thats close to covering it all.

Oh, and a TD sol rod just before Xmas.

And just before Xmas I helped myself to a TD sol rod.

Now, I just have to catch more fish to justify this spending spree.....

[Nickers]

TOMCA.......which price range did you select???? :evil: :evil:

[Mr FeLiX]

Trying to keep the spending down this year after picking up the G.Loomis and HRF during december, although a $1700 Merc 6 doesn't help that cause :whistle:

[Angus]

Id like to think under $2000... Na I dont

To be realistic once you add up the little things, plastics, jig heads, braid etc the price tag jumps without even realising it!

Add to that a couple of inevitable luxury items (new reel or whatever) and it will hit that mark for sure.

Angus

[mac]

went to Charlton's today

first time i have been in there

I'm in heaven

Ended up walking out with three new lures

Ended up costing $40

So the budget has started

[faulked]

my house is on the river and i bought it as i love fishin does that count other than that a few bucks on hooks and some more steak i guess

[Do$tylz]

^^ thats some good control there mac... it only gets worse from here.

[Tom B]

Already blown the $2k, now to try and keep it under $5k for the year, not likely haha

[kreel]

I think the interesting part of this survey is the market clout that AFO represents in tackle purchasing power. I'm keen to see the final figures and work out the upper and lower dollar amounts we expect to spend as a group.

Interesting.

[fishingnut]

I think the interesting part of this survey is the market clout that AFO represents in tackle purchasing power. I'm keen to see the final figures and work out the upper and lower dollar amounts we expect to spend as a group.

Interesting.

Good idea, il star the ball rolling. 6 bream lures 111.80 and keep a rolling totall for the yeah hey whoopf forget a sounder as well for 400 so tatall is $511,80 and counting

[Davo_Dinkum]

hard to keep track of what i spend as its impulse spending .

i reckon 500 to 1000 $ would cover it .

a rod or 2 ,a reel or 2 ,i buy stuff under the 100$ a item .

tackle and lures,other sundries here and there .

[goldnugget]

I set mine at $500 to $1000...this is based on initial spending this month on lures from Zimman, and maybe one of those el-cheapo baitcasters that BCF is flogging off this fortnight for this month alone around $100, and about $35 average p/mth . But the plan is to pick up a boat this year, so if that happens, I can see my fishing tackle purchases directly corresponding with my boating expenses :blush: .

[mac]

^^ thats some good control there mac... it only gets worse from here.

mate

i only planned on having a look as i have not been there before.driven passed it lots of times.work was a little slow today and i had to see a customer out that way

thats the story that i am sticking to it :laugh:

[Ashhley]

im hoping to keep my spending under atleast 4,000 this yr but hey i dont think it will happen

[ryanyoung]

Ha ha, probably going to spend bulk coin......AND LOVE DOING IT WOOHOO!!!!

[crazywalrus]

im hoping to keep my spending under atleast 4,000 this yr but hey i dont think it will happen

WOW Ashley you get everything at cost. you need a new job

[ellicat]

If the stats/forecasts/budgets/expectations are correct then the number is currently a minimum of just under $72,000 from the 66 respondents. ~av $1,100 per person.

[Davo_Dinkum]

More than $2,000 27 39.1%

if there is this many people spending this much ,it meant they have to much money or no bad habits .

bad habits like drinking and smoking .

smoking 7500.00 a year that a 40 pack a day .

drinking 5200.00 a year ,that's 2 x 34 $ bottle of sprits and 32$ carton of beer a week .

dam i should give up smoking and drinking .

i could then buy 2000$ of fishing gear and a new car and boat .

[Damien2Rad]

Without smoking and drinking I'd be a freakin' millionaire.

I also have impulse issues. Especially when cashed up.

But as for fishing gear, I expect I'll spend about 1000 - 1500 on 2 new set ups, and plenty on consumables like lures, lines and plastics.

[ellicat]

Well the first quarter is just about at an end. Does anyone need to change their answer ?

[51MPL]

I'll be happy if it's under 10k this year (boat, lures, terminal, new combo(s))

[woody1]

I have converted to lures since I voted $100-500... I blew almost that much on 1 combo! waaayyy off! haha

[ellicat]

excluding petrol motors, boats, canoes, kayaks, water vessels of any type whose main purpose is to carry a person or persons, shacks by the sea, bush shantys and lean-to's, dwelling houses, tents, caravans, campers and any other unit of housing, both 2 and 4 wheeled vehicles, vehicles with more than 4 wheels, unicycles, manual and machine driven vehicles and ostriches or other animals that can be ridden or used to as beasts of burden to pull a sled or other device to manoeuvre the angler to a fishing place?

There's a few exclusions on the non-exhaustive exclusions list

[Keen-as-fisho]

Up a grand so far plus a new sounder last week........ No wonder I'm broke

[madmullet]

i spent $2500 last week alone stockin up on hard badies, sp's, rods and reels, sharking tackle and normal tackle and still need to pay for the work thats getting done on my boat at present. and thats not inclueding what i have spent already this year. besides fuel and regos for 2 boats i think i would spend around 10k min. i dont smoke anymore, quit 7 months ago, and drinking, cant touch the stuff cause of a very bad experance 10 yrs ago that left me in an induced comer. i feel the only resion i can get away with it atm is that i dont have any kids yet, i do have a morgage but i have the best fiance in the world that loves going fishing as much as i do.