Tackle Shop Purchases

[Needmorerum]

Interested to know how much everyone spends (invests) on tackle and chandlery in their local shops.
My missus reckons I waste alot of money in our local tackle shop. I'm currently blowing (investing) around 80-100 bucks a visit at my favourite tackle shop. She thinks I'm going overboard, but agrees that I need some sort of hobby, and this beats drugs. I always thought alcohol was a drug, but I'm not going to tell her that. I only visit the shop once or twice a fortnight.
Anyway, I manage this and a bit more through internet buying, but without it I would go insane.
Is this normal, or am I going overboard. I manage to find something different, or a few more lures everytime I walk in the door.
Interested to see how others go with this obsession.

Corry.

PS. I have noticed that whatever I do, it doesn't increase my catch at all, I still class it as going boating, not fishing.

[David_P]

Corry,

In my unqualified opinion, this is very normal affliction for a keen fisho / boater. I did a trip last year to Canada and Alaska, and made a point of getting the local yellow pages to track down tackle shops just about everywhere I went. I bought braid, hooks and a few other bits and pieces.

I display similar traits as you've described here at home too. I also do a bit of travel for work between Rocky and Coffs Harbour, and of course have checked out as many tackle shops as possible in these areas too.

Some people have told me there is a cure, but I don't want it

Dave.

[banshee]

Corry,you have to explain to her the basic rule that men live by......he who dies with the most toys wins.

[DICER]

This week I lost prox ~30 euros in lures. Sat I bought a put-in-pole and the week before last was my most expensive week yet in a tackle store. Lucky it was still in the three digits. Nuff said (I hadn't been fishing since Jan and now I'm doing slugs and poppers).

[caloundra]

rule one ; don't take her with you
rule two ; take all prices off before leaving the shop
rule three; distroy reciept
rule four ; allways pay cash (so she can't trace it)
rule five ; only tell her about the great bragains you got

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[stunnedmullet]

Corry, just say it's "On Special"

The mullet
PS From a counselling perspective mate, I think you will find that this will be a recurring illness with no hope for cure. Sorry

[Kiktz]

Here's My two bobs worth.
caloundra's QUOTE...


rule one ; don't take her with you AGREE!!
rule two ; take all prices off before leaving the shop AGREE!!
rule three; destroy receipt AGREE!!
rule four ; always pay cash (so she can't trace it) AGREE!!
rule five ; only tell her about the great bargains you got AGREE!!

As you can see I agree with this BUT..... There is always an exception to the rule.

If I intend on making a big purchase I don't take my missus, But if she is with me I can always eye up what I want and go back. I have on a couple of occasions
told the retailer what I wanted whilst walking the shop and asked him to hold it for me with " I will be back later, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink" and they truly understand my position. But I have found that most times that my Darling most Adorable Gorgeous Wife ( Just in case she reads this ) is with me she will say to me "Do you need it?" and really is there anything that we don't NEED when it comes to fishing........ No !
Well if you do buy it she says. As most guys out there would say. OK

But I have to give credit where credit is due....... Whilst I have been off in dream land I have got home and heard the cry Honey you gat a sec?! and mumbling under my breath "Christ what does she want now!!!!!!!! " She has like any pro shopping female does on a weekly basis. Managed to buy ME yes ME a shirt or something else that she liked the look of and snuck it out of the shop into the car on into the house.
Just to surprise me! Now that my friends in AUSFISH land is Priceless!!!

But all this remains under the cloud of she really does not know how much I spend on tackle.
The rule of thumb in my house is The big ones cost $20 and the little ones cost $10.
All hooks are 50c and sinkers I make myself.


Cheers Kiktz

[caloundra]

The rule of thumb in my house is The big ones cost $20 and the little ones cost $10.
All hooks are 50c and sinkers I make myself.


Cheers Kiktz

lmfao
I'll have to remember that one

[gunna]

Buy your missus fishing gear for Christmas, Mothers Day, Birthday and Anniversary - then just borrow it. If its good enough for my missus to buy me bloody ladies shoes for Fathers Day then its nice to give it back in kind.

[szopen]

Hi all,

My name is Piotr and I'm a tackle junkie....

[Billo]

TOO MUCH !!!........................Yet .....Not enough !

[agnes_jack]

Corry
Had a bloke and his missus come into the shop a while back, the bloke walked around the shop a few times looking at the cheapest, crappiest combo's in the shop, humming and hahing. His wife said "come on make up your mind" and started pointing out, tld combos, diawa millionaire combos, calcutta's etc saying "this one will do, and what about this one.
After a while he picked up a $25 rod reel and line combo, his wife telling him he should get a better one!!!!!
GO FIGURE
Most blokes get dragged out by the earhole!

Regards, Tony

[theoldlegend]

I'm a sucker for new rods and reels, which I always want but dont really need. Wife says that you can only hang onto one rod at a time, but she doesn't realise that you need different setups for different occasions.

Generally also buy hooks etc just to keep my box topped up.

[Needmorerum]

Well all this sounds good. I am starting to feel normal.
The better half doesn't mind me spending the dough on all this gear, in fact she bought my last two ABU reels last month for me. She overheard me talking to one of the blokes in the tackle shop about them and when I come home from work, Wallah, here they were.
She only thinks I'm wasting the money cause I can't catch any fish when I'm out. I like to call it boating, unless I come home with something edible, then it's fishing.
Banshee, I gotta agree with you. I'm trying hard to win. I got the tinny, the Cruise Craft, and by the sounds of it, same as you, a Banshee Quad, my fishing gear, shooting gear, my 80 series wagon fully optioned, my Shorty 40 Cruiser, and another SWB 40 for spare parts. The shed should be built in the next 5 weeks, and then I'll happily move out of the house.
Oh well, at least I now I'm normal. And cause I'm not fishing (boating) today with this great weather, I'm going down to have a look at another TLD for our North West trip next weekend.

Cheers
Corry
(In need of more toys)

[Big_unit]

Driving past Murwillumbah rural co-op last year with my Missus, which was closing down and had a big sign out front " Closing down sale - All fishing gear half price " needless to say I became a frothing, dribbling idiot. So I hooks a u-turn, parks and goes inside and has a little look-see for about 30 - 40 mins. I walk out to the car and says " Hey Darl you should see the gear in there, sh!t its cheap its the first day of their sale, Do you reckon I could have a couple of hundred." Her reply " Heres the Keycard, get what you want " well I raced back inside without speaking back to her. Ended with 4 x Gladiator rods and reels, 2 x Shimano Taipan sticks, 3 x Shimano eggbeaters, 1 x Daiwa eggbeater 2 x Banax eggbeaters, 1 x Penn 24 kg stand up with a 268 Long beach, 3 posters, 3 or 4 shopping bags full of tackle. All for the princely sum of $700. She knows I spent that much but she also understands from adding up the price tickets and comparing it to the receipt that "WE" saved nearly $800. Moral of the story is I am never allowed to have the keycard AGAIN.

Cheers
James