So I have been talked into a tad of coarse fishing tomorrow at Tunnel Barn Farm and being a converted from coarse to fly I have all my tackle. SO, I went to my local tackle shop and brought

1 1/2 x pint of red maggots

2 x bags of pellets

1 x tin of hemp

1 x small carton of worms

I went to the checkout and he asked for £17.50 lol

So with a day ticket at Tunnel Barn Farm being £9 thats a total of:

£26.50

To me fly fishing just became a bargain!!!!!

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Fly fishing costs me £20-£25 per day. Coarse fishing costs about £100/year in club cards plus whatever bait I use - that could be a tenner's worth of maggots, hemp and groundbait or a loaf of bread / tin of corn.

The cheapest fishing is a bit of fly fishing for brownies I get on one of my cheaper coarse club cards!

Ye gods, why waste money on something that can be done for the cost of a rod licence? I still dabble in very occasional coarse fishing. Tin of corn from Sainsbury's. A few slices of Bread, costs a few pence. Cheese, Luncheon meat, all less than a quid and there is no end of venues you can fish for free.

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Too right

One of the discovered gems of fly fishing when I looked into to what the daft sods were doing wafting rods about all day was that you don't need ground bait, your bait doesn't die every 10mins (or when it does you just strip the hook and re-tie it), you don't have to sit about for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages waiting for the ground bait to draw the fish into your swim, you can actually eat what you catch (within limits and reason) and you don't need to cart a small trolley of gear around with you.

Flees are approx £1 a pop but if you tie your own they work out about 30p-70p and can last ages (especially if nowt bites em ).
A fly box is about £4.
Tippet is the same price as coarse mono more or less unless you're daft and buy the "Fly fishing tippet" cack for triple the price.
In one vest you can fit everything you need including your lunch.
You can change swims as often as the fish give their location away.

Now, this might be a controversial point but, I find that when I was coarse fishing people passing by would ask the usually "Had owt?", which applies to every fishing discipline and then walk on. They didn't want to stand about for hours waiting for you to get a bite and the draw of wriggling maggots soon loses its appeal after 10secs. But (starting a sentence with that will draw the grammar brigade into a frenzy) when fly fishing people actually wait until you have cast or you are not actually fishing before asking "had owt?" and then when they have had your reply of yay or nay they then hang around for some time watching what you're doing. I don't know if this is in anticipation of a catch as I find you catch more frequently fly fishing than when coarse fishing and they know this, or, they are just bemused by the daft wafting about of a rod and wonder how on earth this method actually catches anything at all, or, they watch with absolute envy as you delicately land your line is birds nest on the water. Either way they tend to hang around and I've even had cyclists and runners, these people get into a rhythm but are willing to break that in order to wonder what the chuff you're doing and how you're getting along. It just creates more interest and wonder I think. It's an art in my mind to watch someone correctly cast a line.

ive coarse fished for years and the cost is getting out of control.it cost me £36 plus £10 fuel to get to a good water and then £5.00 on the bank.thats if ive got everything so i have a choice of what fishing bits the best.now when i go fly fishing its costs me £10 fuel £16.00 on the water.and get more pleasure as ive tyed my fly so im battling my full wits againest the fishand i can eat him if i wish.so take the fish you take home if you do you pay at least a £1 apound at asda. so with 2x 3lb or more £6 back yes fly fishing is the best thing since sliced breadthe cheapest but it can be the dearest if you wish it to just like any type of fishing the sky is your limit

littlephil

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stop buying bottled water we have,nt got enuff to fish in now so stop it get the water companies to do there job and clean the water every where!!!!

Guess it depends where you fish; I do both, coarse fishing cost me £24 a year + bait, fly fishing (Thornton, Rutland etc) £15 - £25 a day + maybe boat.

I'm lucky to be able to choose, I guess!!.

What fly fishing has taught me is how much I enjoy a simplistic approach to fishing, with a rod, a tackle bag, a landing net and my wits. This approach is spilling over into my coarse fishing now, so I think my days of squatting on a commercial puddle are probably over for the time being.

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I used to compete every weekend, travelling all over the place to various matches, both opens and team events. I'd spend literally thousands of pounds on my course fishing. On my best year I just about broke even with winnings (bearing in mind I had some sponsorship as well).

I don't do that any more and vowed never to get into that side of fly fishing so it's cheap by comparison. Not coming home covered in slime, goundbait, old maggots and stinking is also a winner.

The most expensive factor I find in either fly or coarse is petrol and the amount used to get to the venue.

As for the price of bait well that can easily be reduced by cooking upa sack of Hemp and then freezing it in bags, buy a sack of pellets that will work out about a quater of the price for the same weight if you buy it by a bag, get bulk pack of cheap sweetcorn from a supermarket and find you own worms, maggots well you will have to pay the asking price for them.

Day ticket wise alot of game/coarse fisheries can be in the 20-25 quid range, some sydincates can be as much 600-700 quid a year and season tickets in the range of 30-170 quid a year. It all depends on the venue but the biggest money saver is the fly's as they dont go off, dont need to replaced after every outing and are always ready to go, havent made bait for years and very glad of that....

Fly Fishing Ketchum release tool £20

Coarse fishing disgorger - 90p the same thing, just smaller

Coarse fishing is cheaper in the long run

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I have coarse fished for about 24 years now (just started fly fishing) and I think the initial set up costs for both (for a beginner) are not much different; there are less luggage and accessory items in the fly set-up but the price of the smaller items is higher. If you're looking at high end set ups, for example top of the range carp or match set ups there is potential for blowing thousands.