wind weather and gas

the wind has to be screwing up the fresh spawn on lake erie with 8 footers out of northeast one day then 50 mph next day out of southwest with no water in channels gale warnings tornandos water going down 9 ft from one day to the other.gas prices at 4.15 a gallon now and suppose to be 5 bucks by memorial day thats 6 bucks at the marina.at 120 gallon tank thats 720 dollars a fill up. spent money on dock 160, 300 for insurance, 70 dollars for my 3 year tags, 80 dollars for towing insurance, 100 dollars for lift in,1000 dollars on repairs,300 bucks for wax bottom paint, 250 for new fishing equipment, 1200 new lowrance gps /fishfinder and no fish in frezzer. walleyes 8.99 a pound at telegraph fish market and they are the small ones 1-2 pounders, with bait gas and ice and fish cleaning its a 150 average trip if not more for gas. if i just bought my fillets 899 times 18 tahats just 162 dollars with enough walleye fillets to frezze for winter. put the rest of money in the bank sell boat after 27 years put that money in the bank. wife wants to go to hawaii so i will take her if i get to fish taking a charter there is cheaper then fishing erie. its a shame the gas prices are effecting us this way. charters will have to raise there price to pay for fuel. so do we sit at the dock, fish for perch close to shore, or just sit on boat and get drunk, case of beer and bottle of whiskey 25 bucks then i wony give a poop

You are right, with the price of gas, dockage,insurance etc. walleye are costing about $1,000.00/lb.

It's going to get ugly all around the U.S. this year, vacations will be cancelled along with fishing and hunting trips. Too bad with all the speculators robbing us blind that our Government doest care if inflation sky rockets as our dollar dwindles to nothing. I'm still coming next weekend, but my next two trips might be cutoff due to low $$$ I feel sorry for those who just bought motor homes :(

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Originally Posted by boonie

It's going to get ugly all around the U.S. this year, vacations will be cancelled along with fishing and hunting trips. Too bad with all the speculators robbing us blind that our Government doest care if inflation sky rockets as our dollar dwindles to nothing. I'm still coming next weekend, but my next two trips might be cutoff due to low $$$ I feel sorry for those who just bouth motor homes :(

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The untethered spending has devalued the dollar, the President warned us how he wanted us to pay what europe payed for gas before he was elected. It is comming to be that way.

I have 2 boats... 22ft PennYenn at turtle creek. A 12ft boat at the Lost pennisula... Their goes 2k... Haven't fueled up either boat.add in all the prep work and money you"ve got 4k before you put them in the water...Now it's gonna be a $60 to take the lil boat to the Islands...Food ,beer gas. charcole...This economey is a mess and without ppl using the lake as much it costs everyone millions...I mean who wants to spend 150 to go fish for a few hrs??? the "Fish market" seems like the way to go...And Steve give's me a discount!!!!Guess I have to fish on Telegraph rd from now on...But I'll put them in this weekend anyways, cause I love the lake...

Me, My dad and my uncle have debated for years about buying a boat for Lake Erie and came to the conclusion it's cheaper to book a charter many times a year than maintain a boat. We can regularly find six guys to fill the boat and costs us each $100 including tip for the charter. Tack on gas etc. and it averages out to about $175 a trip per person. Add on a captain that fishes daily and puts you on fish and it's not a bad deal. It made our decision pretty easy.

Doug

Wakina, Reagan inherited pure crap from Carter - but had it turned around in about 18 months and also created over a decade of prosperity. Obama's been at it over 2 years and made it worse. Bush might be at fault, but Obama campaigned for 2 years how he is the man to make it all better. So why isn't it better? Too much spending on things that really didn't create jobs. 70% of our economy is consumer spending. So lets spend gov money wisely on creating jobs so consumers will spend again and feel good about it. Rebuilding bridges and roads are short-term jobs that cosume huge amounts of cash. We need jobs that will last years and years. Interestly, Roosevelt tried to spend his way out of a depression too and the depression lasted 10 years.

Sadly, this isn't even bad yet. Wait until the entitlement crowd can swing an election. Its almost here - we're at about 36% of the nation feels they deserve things they didn't earn. Money from the rich, free healthcare, hell free everything. Get to 50% and its all over. Dems promise those too lazy to work free everything in return for their vote - yup even make the illegals citizens and in return - yup, you guessed it - more votes. Once the ole' scale tips toward an entitlement society, there's no going back folks. Look at all the protests that have gone on over in Europe. People don't want to give back all the entitlements they didn't earn. Which way is it going to tip? So you all have to ask yourself, are you part of the entitlement crowd that feels its OK to get free stuff off the backs others or are you willing to work for what you have?

Never Done, well said and I agree 100%

anybody want to buy a boat i heard gas was to top off when it was 3.89 but when i woke up it was 4.15. why does it go up 30 cents a gallon but only go down pennies.and can the charters run without raising the price. buddy lost his 35 dollar an hour union job and now works for 8 an hour with 2 kids how does he afford to go fishing

With all the prices going crazy i'm still amazed,this ummer there will still be boats tied three deep at Put in Bay.Somebody still has money to spend but it's sure not the fishermen,especially the retired ones on fixed incomes as I am. Going after perch close in may be all thats left,next thing they will ban all perch fishing on our side. The case of beer and the bottle of whiskey sounds good to me. As we call it on our boat wet camping!

I pulled/deleted my earlier comments from this thread as they were not fishing related or forum topic related and were totally inappropiate for this forum thread, I apologize to any one that I may have offended with those political comments.

Wakina

gota got do it...can not sit here no more ...going out of turtle creek this morr..going to see if i can find some fish out there...been 5 days now ..if nothing else drink a few beers and take a boat ride....tired of being stuck inside cause of weather...i ll let u know what up ...hope to see that net splashing in ther water..

Looks a little breezy and with the dirty water, GOOD LUCK.

I agree here with all said. Two summers ago I did the same calculation as rscotfish. I by no means am a great walleye fisherman and have never limited out. That year walleye were costing me over $170/lb. That was when gas was $2.89! That year my season was cut short when I threw a rod in the starboard engine. Had to have my boat transported 170 miles to my home two replace both engines. After a year and a half of work and two new big blocks and two new transmissions and re-rigging the entire boat, that price per pound is astronomical.
I launched April 9th and have fished every saturday and sunday since then and have boated two walleye. I filled up both tanks the day I launched and spent over $1200 just in gas. With two 195 gallon tanks and $5 a gallon gas that is sure to come, filling up will be almost $2000! Ridiculous!
I am by no means wealthy. I work a job I hate and had to take over a $10,000/year paycut just to keep it. Not just that, but to keep the company truck I had, I had to purchase it from the company and buy my own insurance for it. My boat took every single penny I had to maintain and operate. Now it takes more. I now cannot enjoy just the wife and me out fishing. I have to try to find friends to come to help offset the fuel costs. And honestly, I have a hard time convincing friends to pitch in a mere $50 for a day fishing! They're all broke to! Me and the wife eat one meal a day thru the week. We go nowhere and do nothing. We work our jobs and wait til fridays. We head north and eat good and drink beer and good island wines. We are then broke again all week, but we do what we love.
That all said, and we can ***** all we want, but we will still be out there doing it. Or at least I will. If all I can do is make it out the channel and shut down and drift for fish all day long, then thats what I'll do. I knew going into buying a big boat it would drain every penny I had. You know what, I was right! For the last 5 years it has. But I knew that from the start. I just don't care anymore. I boat and fish because I simply LOVE it. I grew up on Lake Erie with my Great Grandfather fishing every day of every week in the summers from the time I was 3 til he died when I was 12. I grew up on Erie and I'll die on Erie. Bankrupt or not!

Guys, come on, I hear enough about politics and I'm not going to say who I disagree with on this board, but can we please just our posts to FISHING! I come here for my escape and gather GOOD information.

This economy has hit everyone,repub/dems/independ/ pretty hard.I agree that this board is for fishing but I don't see how we can sit back and not talk about how the price of fuel is killing our sport.I keep my boat at Fenwick {drydock} but I still have to drive my Ford F-350 up and back from Columbus.It is a 300 mile round trip and I use about 20 gallons of diesel.At $4.20/gallon this means I spend about $85.00 dollars just in the truck.The boat has a 120 Gallon tank and gas is going to be $5.00 by Memorial Day.That means $600 to fill up the boat.I should not have to ask anyone who comes with me to help out but it always seems like I foot most of the bill.I love Lake Erie and thats what keeps me coming back.

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I pulled/deleted my earlier comments from this thread as they were not fishing related or forum topic related and were totally inappropiate for this forum thread, I apologize to any one that I may have offended with those political comments.

Wakina

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Hey Wakina, this may be a fishing site for Lake Erie but you can bet your last Erie Deerie that politics has a much more profound and lasting impact on our favorite past time than the wind, water temperature and waves. More people need to think before they pull that lever in the voting booth. As for the gas prices, I'm putting in one more year. I love fishing the lake and no smooth talking, communist Chicago gangsta is gonna shut me down - YET! And I've no apology for that!

I agree no politics should be on a fishing forum.

The only fix to politics is if they (Congressmen) were in office prior to November, 2008 vote against them because they are all part of the problem.

With that said, and no more politics from me, the water will be clearing soon, the waters calming and the fish will be finally ready to be caught so let's go fishing.

Good luck and Tight lines guys.

I don't mind a little bit now and then. This thread seems to be timely.

OK, now back to some tuff fishing.

In 2008 Gas was $4.99 a gallon at almost all if not all of the marina gas docks in East Harbor, in 2007 it hit a high of $4.39 maybe more at the gas docks in East Harbor, who's fault was that? It didn't stop me from fishing then and won't stop me now.
There are some who act like this is the first time gas has been to $4.00 or more, well it's not and it won't be the last time, fact is we may never see $4.00 gas again it may just go higher and stay there. Every one has a choice to either spend the money or not spend the money to go fishing, but crying in public about it on this forum, pointing fingers and calling people names is not helpful to the other members of this forum and besides it will not change anything. The best way to help is to go fishing and post accurate factual fishing reports about your days fishing, no matter if you are successful or not successful as to the method you used, and the location where you fished, this will, in the long run help everyone conserve on their resources and get more fish per dollar spent on fuel. I intend to keep on fishing until I can no longer get around any more to fish or climb in my boat. I don't intend to get into a political pissing match with other members of this forum over gas prices. That is why I deleted my post, it was inappropiate for this forum, and it served no useful purpose for the other members of this forum.