My friend Kevin Webster posted an article today about the money fishermen spend annually. The article applies to NY state, but there are some national stats in there I found. I had not idea these figures were this high. See the article.
Freshwater anglers annually take about 21 million fishing trips and spend $1.5 billion pursuing this sport. Saltwater anglers annually take about four million trips and spend more than one billion dollars.
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Thanks for the mention, Scott.
Amazingly, that figure is just for NY, as I read it. There’s a US Fish and Game document from 2001 (Link: http://library.fws.gov/Pubs/Black_Bass_Report_2001-10.pdf) (Table 9, Page 16) that shows that nationally, fishermen spent close to $19B including food and lodging in 2001. That’s national for sure.
In 8 years, it’s very possible that this figure could have almost doubled, which would put New Yorker’s spend into perspective.
I’ll decline to mention that trout fisherman also generally have a higher education than do black bass fishermen, per that document. Just sayin. :)
Money spent on fishing is well spent, the rest and relaxation and fun you get are well worth it!
I got stuck in Dallas last week, in the airlines issue, so I scooted over to Lake Fork and fished with Scott (owner of this bigbasscountry site).
I caught a 5lb 11oz beauty, she was kind of short, but very fat and her pectoral fins were all marked up from her time on her bed. Man, what a fish! Making memories! My money was better spent fishing than on the beer we drank. Wait, I take that back, it was all good.
Scott, thanks for turning a biz trip gone bad (thanks American Airlines!) into a great bass trip!!!