Surfcasting on a budget

[Salty]

Stay home and watch fishing show's on the tube.

[Shake N' Bake]

Originally Posted by Salty

Stay home and watch fishing show's on the tube.

Salty might be onto something. You can keep your gear right next to you since the lady isn't watching your fishing show.
During commercials you could hook the cat, dog or the kid. Good fight for sure, use unbarbed so you can cast quicker.

Seriously, I have purchased decent used rods at yard sales.
I also switch it up between fresh water and salt. I can bike to fresh water...truth be told though. Pickeral and small mouth from a bridge can get boring so I jump in the Hemi and head to Hampton for the day. I Love It!!!

[tattoobob]

I will be going back to my roots and will be doing LMB fishing
I already cancelled my BI trip, maybe in the fall things will be
different funds wise. I don't think I will ever sell my VS reels
that's just silly

Fred I have caught a blue fish on a sea worm, great fight it
was my first blue fish ever

[eastendlu]

I'm adding some rocket launchers and a cooler rack to my Honda Civic.

[Bazza]

On some trips I take my wife's Camery instead of the truck. I just got a Kayak, that should help with one spot to launch, instead of driving around to various beaches and inlets.

[GeoffT]

Originally Posted by tattoobob

I don't think I will ever sell my VS reels
that's just silly

Wholeheartedly agree! It's almost laughable, even. No way are they overrated for the kind of surf-fishing we do. Besides if they are so overrated why they do hold their resale value so well?

[fishpoopoo]

i wonder how many van staals will be flooding the market when gasoline hits $6/gallon?

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by GeoffT

Wholeheartedly agree! It's almost laughable, even. No way are they overrated for the kind of surf-fishing we do. Besides if they are so overrated why they do hold their resale value so well?

Because there a sucker born every minute!

[Notaro]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Because there a sucker born every minute!

so true

[Mike P]

Buy a house 5 minutes from the Canal, and ride your bike to and from

Sell off the expensive reels. Rehab the old Spinfishers and the original (single zero) SS, or that old Daiwa Silver or BG. If you're a conventional man, dig out the old Squidders, or the original all-black or P-series Newell, or the old red Ambassadeur, that've been gathering dust in the basement.

Plastic plugs--especially Superstrikes and vintage Bob Pond Atoms--still catch. So do Bombers and Redfins.

Jigs catch. But for the price of one "canal special" style jig, you can buy 4 plain leadheads and a 4 pack of Riptide Mullets at Wally World and have 4 productive lures for the price of one. At the end of the night, after you leave 4 jigs stuck to the bottom, you're only out the $5 for the 4 makeshift jigs rather than the $20 for 4 Canal specials.

Superglue works as well as Zap-a-Gap. All cyanoacrylic glues are water soluable no matter what they try to claim. All will eventually let go from the head of a soft plastic.

Expensive reel lubes like Rocket Fuel, Hot Sauce and the new Penn synthetic don't work any better than a $2 can of 3 in 1 oil from Bennys--and the 3 in 1 will stay in the bearings longer. Ron Arra won 4 US casting titles using 3 in 1.

[GeoffT]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Because there a sucker born every minute!

Can't complain about that one either!

[Joe]

Stop fishing, buy a web lawn chair, and sit in front of your house picking your nose - I see lots of old guys doing it....

[zimmy]

Originally Posted by tattoobob

I don't think I will ever sell my VS reels
that's just silly

Yeah, I don't think losing a couple hundred bucks each in depreciation is worth it, but if you want... I'd give you $100 each You could buy 3 of those other reels for each one and be set.

Fish close to home, go with a buddy, buy used beat plugs and revive them. Cancel your cable, cell phone and internet and use the extra 150 bucks a month for fishing.