How is gas affecting your fishing?
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Its hasn’t stopped me yet nor is it likely to, but I have winced more than a few times. We’re at a 1.28/liter here, roughly 5.12/gallon ? I’m driving a Jeep Liberty or a Saturn. The Jeeps pretty hard on gas and really deflates the wallet filling up.
Fortunately I have some options close to home, inluding walking out my back door and being on a stream that gets Migratories, has resident Browns and further up Brookies. The problem is quality and its not a very interesting stream to photograph.
All I can do is hope to recoup some of the expense when the tax man comes calling next February.
🙁even though gas is an everyday item..
what else do we use everyday that cost the same (or as much) as gas…
Red diamond tea ………………………………… $ 3.89 a gallon
Milk…………………………………………………… $ 4.89 a gallon
Laundry Soap…
Gas has not impacted me as much as the overall economy with the housing market. The company that I presently work for does design and advertising for quite a few of the apartment management companies. With a slow down in work for many people across the board – the apartment community is booming. I need to hire folks but everyone is holding on tight to their present jobs. I had an art director quit which puts even more strain on me and now I have to deal with some crazy travel.
So I have not been able to fish due to working 60- 80 hours a week or traveling to east nowhere Massachusetts (with no time to fish). This work habit needs to stop because it is causing strain on more than just my fishing. The wife and the new baby want me with them.
For me it’s not so much of an issue, I commute 22 miles each way on my bike (60%of the time). I maybe fill up once every 12 to 15 days.
you guys re right about what we use daily..
But think about this..
In my house I have 2 boy and baby girl the wife and myself..
we go though a gallon of milk in a day and half…. (up to 4 gallons a week)we have a dishwasher but dont use it that often.. its just easier to wash them by hand (and saves a little on water and electicity)….
we eat 3x a day + snacks(the kids and me…Im a stay-at-home dad by day).. So I do dishes twice a day.the cough medicine..
No I dont go though a gallon a week.. But with a nurse as a wife I have 5 different type.. there is a type for every condition you can think of…. and the winter we may buy up to 8-10 bottles…Laundry…
I wash and fold about 2-3 loads a day (Just to keep up with it)…. you miss one day and it takes a week to catch up…LOL
(we go through about 3 bottles a month).Trust me… we go through a lot more everyday items then you think.
The cost of all that other stuff is on the rise too because our economy is currently structured around transporting plastic packaged goods long distances via fossil fuels.
This is just another thing to give the 24 hour news networks a “story”. To insinuate that a continued rise in the cost of petroleum won’t lead to either massive problems or massive changes simply because it will probablly still be cheaper than milk and cough syrup per volume is poor logic.
Day to day it’s not effecting me financially as much as it is others because I bike to work and most other places I need to go in town. I’ve made these and other sacrifices to still be able to afford all the fishing trips.
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Laundry…
I wash and fold about 2-3 loads a day (Just to keep up with it)…. you miss one day and it takes a week to catch up…LOL
(we go through about 3 bottles a month).L-
Are you using liquid?
$3.79 for a gallon of gas?!?! Where??? It’s really sad that sounds inexpensive to me. I think I paid $4.15/gal for 85 octane the other day. I don’t go fishing anymore, I have to drive too far to get to less than ideal trout water.
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The price of gas should be affecting my fishing but in the past two nights, I drove 2 hours round trip each night to get in one hour of good fishing during the sulphur hatch on the LeTort.
I used to ride my bike 4.5 miles to work at least 50% of the time. Now, childcare and transport of child necessitate a lot of driving. But a 22-mile bike commute is pretty impressive—damn.
In my fishing life, the price of gas has forced me to continue a trend to fish closer to home, which means less trout fishing. My good trout fishing is over 200 miles, round trip. I’ve been fishing other species and liking it.
Another change: we have an SUV, but I’ve been choosing to drive my old Camry fishing instead. I have been taking it into some rough 4X4 type areas.
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Let’s see, I use premium in my pickup or else it knocks/pings under load. May 21st I paid $4.16/gallon. This morning, 19 days later…$4.70/gallon. $.54 per gallon increase in 19 days. I still went fishing this weekend, but I went with some friends and we split the gas. Will go fishing if I have to skip lunches to pay for the gas. I spent more time recovering physically than earning the money for gas.
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