Gas vs. Fishing ??

With gas going to $4 or $5 a gal.
How much will that cut into your fishing?

The lakes I like to fish are 36 miles/60 miles round trip.
I just may have to fish closer to home.
I've got one "bad" habit and that's fishing.

Not much here, either...I'll just have to make more weekend trips to get more bang for my petro peso.

It won't cut into the amount,it has already cut the distance.It used to be more fun exploring when I wasn't as concerned about how much gas I was using.I can def. notice that there are fewer guys out where-ever I go.There were days when I would drive to RT.422 & flip a coin to see if I should go west to Arthur or East to Yellow Creek Lake for Northerns, Now I don't have a coin to flip. lol sam

If I could ever consistentley get people to go out on Lake Erie and help split my fuel cost I'd be going alot more! 120 miles each way or 240 miles round trip towing a heavy 19ft boat puts a sting in the wallet, especially when you're getting between 10/11 miles a gallon. Not to mention 8-10 gallons of gas in the boat probably at a minimum. So it cost me about 30 gallons of gas each trip to Lake Erie, which is between $105-130 just for fuel...

My saving grace is that I live about 2 miles from the lower Allegheny, which is where I spend most of my time in the off seasons of Lake Erie. I never do so well with walleyes on the lakes around here-Keystone Power Dam, Lake Arthur, and others. I can always get plenty of bass, crappie, and catfish--but walleyes not so much. Pymy is about a 2 hour drive for me, so usually if i get the urge to go there-I just tell myself Erie is only another 30 minutes down the road, so why waste my time on Pymy. Just my 2 cents...

blame it on****cheney, isn't that who every one blamed BO (before oblame-o)

^pertro oil or snake oil?

wont stop me, i figure if i don't spend it on gas, im going to spend it on something else anyways, so whats the difference.

Still going to make my yearly trip south to Ky lake. Couple years ago, it cost me more for gas, down and back, than it did to stay there in the motel for a week.

At 14 MPG, I won't venture very far. Trouble is,I'm about an hour and a half drive away from any decent trout water, once pellet season comes to an end. Yea I know, trade my truck for something that gets better mileage. Thing is, I'm kinda on the big side and don't like trying to squeeze in and out of smaller vehicles, nor do I like my head touching the headliner.

Its going to affect me big time!! Im 95 miles from pyma and 65 to shenango.I waited all my life to retire and fish alot now the magic day arrives and gas is going to put the kabosh on alot of those trips.Its a shame though it doesnt have to be that high were getting our annual goughing like always and alas I thought it was cause we had a oil Guy running the show sending all the profits to his buddies in oil industry!!!
Argue all you want but i will take that dumb oil guy any day over hope and change any day!! now there no hope and only bad change!!!!!!

i have quit complaining about it. Prices are not going to change and that is something we have to get used to. I dont even look at the price anymore cause i know it will make me angry. As far as trips it will cut down on my pymi and erie trips, but i will just fish the allegheny or ohio.

Take a buddy or two on the long trips and split the cost of gas will be my motto. I will also fish closer to home with more regularity(Mon River). Yes I will B---- and Moan but I'll still go fishing. Quite a variety of fish in the Mon from carp and cats to Eyes, Bass and Musky. Have even caught a stray trout there.

It doesn't change a thing for me. I've cut down so much and budgeted myself so tight, I can't even squeeze out a drop of swet without owning somebody something.

Ya got that right!!!!!!!

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It doesn't change a thing for me. I've cut down so much and budgeted myself so tight, I can't even squeeze out a drop of swet without owning somebody something.