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Show Tfte WORLD OUTDOORS LETTER from a friend says: "You're always writing how fishing is an economical sport. Where do you fish? My experience is that a weekend fishing trip can throw the family budget out of line for a month. It costs money to rent boats and motors, to stay In motels or cabins, to eat, and to feed gas to an automobile. I think fishing is expensive." We can only reply that our friend used the key word when he said fishing can be expensive. Sure, it can... but so can any other sport. Look at it this way: All a man needs to go fishing, he can get for little or nothing A cane pole; costs little, and in some sections of the country a fellow can cut his own on a creek bank. Some line; not much expense here, either. Sinkers or split shot; quarter goes a long way here. Hooks; a few pennies puts you in business. Bait; a borrowed shovel does just as well for digging worms, a minnow trap can be made for nothing from a gallon jug, crayfish cray-fish are in many creeks waiting to be caught the list is endless. Some may argue that this covers the bare essentials. Sure, it does but no other sport has such a low initial investment. The man who so desires can spend a fortune on rods, reels, artificial lures, and other fishing items, true enough. But he can buy a top-name top-name reel, rod, tackle box and assortment of plugs for a reasonable reason-able figure. A survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service disclosed that fishing tackle accounts for only 13 cents of every dollar spent by fishermen. Less than this amount was spent for transportation, transporta-tion, food and lodging put together. togeth-er. . - |