items, such as spinning rods and reels, were owned by only a few reportingfishermen, and the 

 annual cost per fisherman was only 5 cents for spinning rods and 4 cents for spinning reels. 



Lake, 1949. 



Table 2. --Average amortized costs of fishing equipment of 126 fishermen at Ridge 



Item 



Estimated Period 

 of Usefulness 



Annual 

 Cost 



Flyrods 



Fly reels 



Fly lines 



Casting rods 



Casting reels 



Casting lines 



Spinning rods 



Spinning reels 



Spinning lines 



Fly rod lures 



Casting lures 



Spinning lures 



Tackle boxes 



Leaders and hooks 



Boots 



Special fishing clothes 



Boats 



Outboard motors 



Anchors and miscellaneous 



Additional baits and gadgets 



Total 



12 years 

 12 years 



2 years 

 12 years 

 12 years 



2 years 

 12 years 

 12 years 



2 years 



2 years 



5 years 



3 years 

 7 years 

 2 years 



4 years 

 4 years 



10 years 



6 years 



7 and 5 years 

 1 year 



$ 1.33 

 0.58 

 2.05 

 1.66 

 1.67 

 2.27 

 0.05 

 0.04 

 0.07 

 4,65 

 4.28 

 0.09 

 0.97 

 1.54 

 1.63 

 1.02 

 3.08 

 6.26 

 0.07 

 6.09 



$39.40 



The item "additional baits and gadgets" represents the annual cost of replacing lost 

 baits and other equipment and adding new baits. The figure for this item is the average of the 

 estimates given in the questionnaires and probably is too low. The sumof the amortized costs, 

 $39.40, represents the average annual equipment costs per fisherman. This figure was divided 

 by the average number of short fishing trips taken (not necessarily to Ridge Lake) by the fisher- 

 men in the sample, to give the cost of equipment per trip. Only short trips were included in the 

 calculation because most long trips (usually to northern lakes) were family affairs not pri- 

 marily for fishing but to escape warm weather. For such trips, separating the costs that 

 could be allocated to fishing was next to impossible. 



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