The Fishing Season Budget
Price your fishing season before you pay for it: your agency's own list and fees, day licenses or the annual, the days you really fish, what one day costs, line bought by the fill, and a set-aside ready by the opener
FishingFix's Fishing License Checker quotes each listed state agency's own rules and names the stamps, endorsements and cards a state adds, but gives no fee and never the choice every angler makes at the counter: day licenses or the annual. Its Fishing Line Calculator gives the yards one spool fill takes, not how many fills a season needs, and its Catch Log Tracker counts fish, not days or dollars. Nothing on the site adds up a season. The Fishing Season Budget works it through. In its worked example an annual license and one stamp at $35.00, against $12.50 a day, make the annual cheaper from day 3; an agency free day moves that to day 4. The license is picked on the 11 days actually fished last season, and the money on the 16 days planned. A day out costs $23.50 in bait, travel and lost rigs; two reels respooled twice take 908 yards, and one 1,000 yard spool comes in $7.97 under four fillers. The season adds up to $430.99, $26.94 a day all in, with the license only 8% of it and the days 87%. A monthly set-aside of $9.17 over six months covers the $54.99 due at the opener. Every figure is computed by the site's own Fishing Line Calculator and Catch Log Tracker and the formula on each page; the fees, prices and counts are examples, not any state's fees. It never decides that you need no license, computes no tide or weather call, and names no brand. Included: 24 printable pages with seven steps, four working pages, a break-even table and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked on your own state, spool, catch log and bait pick.
Look inside
Two full pages from the budget, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- Step 1: your agency's own list for your water and fish, with each fee and the date you read it
- Step 2: the break-even day between day licenses and the annual, with the agency's free days
- Step 3: the license picked on the days you actually fished, the money on the days you plan, and a switch day
- Step 4: what one day out costs: bait, travel and the rigs you lose, with a life jacket first if you need one
- Step 5: line bought by the fill, from the Fishing Line Calculator's yards, against one filler spool a fill
- Step 6: the season added up from the bottom, a day's true cost, and a fish's cost at last season's rate
- Step 7: a monthly set-aside, rounded up, that covers the money due at the opener, and a season calendar
- Four working pages: an agency sheet, a break-even sheet, a trip cost log and a season budget sheet
- A break-even table for seven annual paths and six day fees, and a quickstart that closes the score loop
- A personalised sheet: your agency's page and break-even table, your spool's fills for the season, your catch rate and your day's cost lines
- ✓ 24 printable pages
- ✓ 10 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed, just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The budget picks up where the free Fishing License Checkerleaves off. The checker quotes each listed agency’s own rules and names the stamps and cards a state adds, but no fee and no choice between day licenses and the annual; the Fishing Line Calculator gives the yards one spool fill takes; the Catch Log Trackercounts fish, not days or dollars. The budget adds them up: your agency’s own list with your fees and the date you read them, the break-even day between day licenses and the annual, the license picked on the days you really fished, what one day out costs, line bought for the season’s fills, and a monthly set-aside that is ready by the opener. It never decides that you need no license, computes no tide or weather call, and names no brand. Every figure in it is an example for you to replace with your own.