Outdoors thread

[Speaker to Animals]

If you think about it, all you really would need is one of those portable grills. You could pick up some vegetables on the way out and keep them in a cooler. Grill your fish on the spot along with some veggies. Maybe cook a pot of rice on a camp stove.

You'd be able to eat pretty well on the cheap as long as you figured out how to pull enough fish.

[doc_loliday]

Fly fishing is inexpensive, you don't have to buy all that gear that some people wear. You just need a rod, line, and bait.

[Speaker to Animals]

Fly fishing is inexpensive, you don't have to buy all that gear that some people wear. You just need a rod, line, and bait.

But I also have no clue how to cast it or really do it. The cheapest class I can find is like two hundred bucks for an afternoon.

It's almost to the point where it would be cheaper to buy a fishing kayak from a sport's store and a cheap pole with a spinning reel. That's like $500 for fair equipment, and then I would need to get the kayak adapter for my Jeep's rails. Then I can just go into the French Broad River.

[doc_loliday]

Youtube should be enough to get you going.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don't know if there are any books like this, but it seems to me something very valuable would cover how to bootstrap your fishing in a particular place economically so that you can eventually recover the costs by the end of the year in meat.

Somewhere along the way our culture took a nosedive. All these things became "sports", and people then concluded they should spend a fuck ton of cash on them. But you really shouldn't be spending more than you get out of it. It makes no sense unless you are rich and you get your rocks off sitting in a fifty thousand dollar bass boat like Jerry Reed or something.

I mean like a step-by-step guide on how to maximize your time and resources to supplement your food expenses.

Make one for hunting too. I am not even kidding. This is the type of shit people really need. Our nation is LONG past the expensive hobby sport days. People need to start thinking about gathering food to save money.

[doc_loliday]

About half the folks I know get their food for free. EBT.

[Ex-California]

I don't know if there are any books like this, but it seems to me something very valuable would cover how to bootstrap your fishing in a particular place economically so that you can eventually recover the costs by the end of the year in meat.

Somewhere along the way our culture took a nosedive. All these things became "sports", and people then concluded they should spend a fuck ton of cash on them. But you really shouldn't be spending more than you get out of it. It makes no sense unless you are rich and you get your rocks off sitting in a fifty thousand dollar bass boat like Jerry Reed or something.

I mean like a step-by-step guide on how to maximize your time and resources to supplement your food expenses.

Make one for hunting too. I am not even kidding. This is the type of shit people really need. Our nation is LONG past the expensive hobby sport days. People need to start thinking about gathering food to save money.

All you need is a single rod and reel and a couple lures. If you want bigger fish buy bait.

You can hunt anything you want if you have an 870 or something similar and a couple barrels with interchangeable chokes. One long one for upland and waterfowl; use a full or modified choke for the waterfowl and a more open choke for upland game, and then a short barrel with iron sights for turkey and deer. Use a rifled slug choke for the deer, and a extra full for turkeys. You can shoot rabbits or squirrels with anything

I do get what you're saying about the sportification of activities, but you can argue that's capitalism at its best

[Montegriffo]

Fly fishing is inexpensive, you don't have to buy all that gear that some people wear. You just need a rod, line, and bait.

But I also have no clue how to cast it or really do it. The cheapest class I can find is like two hundred bucks for an afternoon.

It's almost to the point where it would be cheaper to buy a fishing kayak from a sport's store and a cheap pole with a spinning reel. That's like $500 for fair equipment, and then I would need to get the kayak adapter for my Jeep's rails. Then I can just go into the French Broad River.

Just get a kayak and screw the fishing. I've been canoeing since I was 12. There is no better way to see wildlife. I followed a family of otters downstream for about an hour once in France. Truly magical experience. We have a lot of kingfishers in Norfolk and it always gives me a buzz to have one flash past in a blur of florescent blue.

[Speaker to Animals]

If I went the kayak route, it would take me years of fishing to recover the initial investment, though. If this were Florida, and I could the intercoastal, then I know I would recover it much sooner. But this freshwater stuff is difficult.

[TheReal_ND]

So I broke down and bought a shimano spinner and seven foot pole from the pawnshop for twenty bucks. Still got twelve pound braid left over. I guess I'll fish now :facepalm: