Gasoline Prices Effect Your Fishing?

[outcaster]

 Are the ever increasing gas prices affecting the way you fish? Do you plan your fishing trips differently by choosing a closer ramp? Or do you just fish less? I no longer make long runs on the water, and try to be better planned for the day. I wiil actually pull my boat to a ramp that is close to the areas I want to fish, instead of launching close to my home and running all over the lake. I'm even considering a rate increase this year for clients. When I take friends or family fishing I have generally provided everything, but I'm gonna have to start asking for gas money. On the bright side, not wanting to run down the lake has forced me to find new fishing spots that I may have overlooked in the past.

 

[Aries 181]

I won't be going to the "G" as much as I would like but it won't affect my trips to the jack.

Bill

 

[Bprice]

Not me inparticularly... I have cut out a lot of eating out and other things I used to do, so that I can fish like I used to.

 

[Nickajack Angler]

Well, gas prices aren't "comfortable", but I tell you what has killed my opporunities to fish more.... lack of real estate transactions that I make my living from. If real estate acitivity goes down, mortgages are down along with them. Until the housing market turns around, I'm stuck to the Nick, Chick and upper G. Not being able to go hit Dale Hollow as I had wanted this spring... but thing will come around. I'm optimistic.... or at least trying to be!

 

[NRG]

Made me get a small boat and motor , instead of the larger boat I was wanting to buy .. 35hp motor takes me on several trips fishing on 6 gallons compared to the 20 gallons I went thru every trip or every other trip when I had my 150hp

 

[Luketrician]

i do fish less..and don't go as far. sux

 

[Buoy-Master]

Luketrician - 3/8/2008 4:55 PM i do fish less..and don't go as far. sux

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 Short and sweet! </p>

Maybe we should start doing a 3 man per boat TX

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[japlata]

Yep, plan to start fishing the creeks and river close to home. I am also working on a small dingy and I'am looking for a small outboard for it. Probably around a ten hp. or less......emoScratch

 

[fischnrod]

I miss the long trips you can make with a 40 hp on a 14 ft. flatbottom..and you could get there pretty quick......I try to stay closer to the launch area with gas prices thru the roof like they are. I am sort of a loner so its not like anyones sharing the cost with me when i go.

 

[Luketrician]

BBass - 3/8/2008 2:14 PM

Luketrician - 3/8/2008 4:55 PM i do fish less..and don't go as far. sux

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 Short and sweet! </p>

Maybe we should start doing a 3 man per boat TX

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hey I like that idea! and optimaxes for allemoLaugh

 

[flip1up]

The increased fuel expense has hurt me alot more with my old Dodge truck. That dang thing is horrible on gas. When I traded my 20 footer with a 200 for this G3 and 115 four stroke, I knew the longer runs were over just because of the time it takes to go a long way. I will put the boat back on the trailer and go to another ramp if I want to fish another area of the lake. At Gville here a while back, I put in at 3 different ramps one day.</p>

 

[blazer]

yes it is starting to limit me to fishing closer to the ramp and not running all over the lake,im even considering getting a smaller boat and motor.and it has cut out some of my trips to tims and the chick.

 

[hl&s]

I'm sure it will impact my fishing if it keeps climbing. Nickajack being the smallest of the lakes in our area helps to keep down the fuel cost. Planning your fishing trip so you don't have to double back helps save some fuel too. It's sad that the day may be near when some boaters will have to ask their friends and family members they have always taken for free to help share the expense of a day on the lake, or go less often.

 

[bassnbug]

my old flatbottom and 20 hp takes me on 5 or six trips on 12 gallons

 

[Jerry]

Just got back from a vacation, and the people I met said the price of gas in California and Florida was approaching $5 per gallon. As for my fishing, so far I just go when and where I can.

 

[Fat Albert]

bassnbug - 3/9/2008 12:57 PM my old flatbottom and 20 hp takes me on 5 or six trips on 12 gallons</p>



<font color="#ff0066" size="4">that ain't an old flat bottom.....it is ventage....and a good one...LOL....glad you are enjoying it...and catching fish.   FA</font></p>

 

[Hal]

I'm in the same boat as NickajackAngler, the Real Estate business has slowed and I have to watch my pennies for fishing too. I don't go as often but I did buy a 4 stroke which gets very good "mileage" on the water which helps a lot. It now makes sense to "double up" and take someone else. Who knows, he may not have the $$'s to go this time and will remember you when you are short, emoPoke
The Exxon boycot sounds like a good idea to me and I surely do a lot less unnecessary running around than I used to. It needs to pay for me to run the roads and there's lots of that to be done in the Real Estate business.
Make it count, stay longer and catch more, emoThumbsup ................Hal

 

[fairweatherfisherman]

I've been trying to use my little boat with the tiny 4 stroke motor, whenever possible, but when I need the big boat, I haven't really hesitated to trailer it to the river and use it. I also fish Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and southern Kentuky - mostly for striper and trout. The road trips run into a good bit of gas money.

The main thing right now is having a job. I work on a year to year contingency with my company. I'll know around the end of May whether I'm getting picked up for another year. If I'm there another year, the gas prices aren't going to slow me down. If I'm job hunting and not pulling in a paycheck, it will be close to home with the little boat and little motor.

 

[Jmax]

I have cut back on everything else. Needed to cut back on eating anyways, needed to go on a diet and the price of gas has me eating out less. Use both sides of the adding machine tape and computer paper but to cut back on fishing is just not "Natural" and un-American.emoUSA ....emoBigsmile Jmax

 

[drumking]

I have always trailered my boat to the nearest ramp to the area that I wanted to fish. At my age, I hardly ever fish over 1/2 day anymore, so I really don't run too far. Having a 4-stroke motor helps a little bit on gasoline.