| If you are a keen fisherman you know how | | | | $200 fishing rod or reel can quite often be bought |
| much top quality tackle costs. It is very | | | | for less than $50--sometimes a lot less. If that |
| expensive, if you want the best--and if your | | | | sounds too good to be true you are definitely not |
| budget is limited it can be simply unaffordable. | | | | a garage sale enthusiast. Those are the places to |
| What are you to do then if you want some new | | | | go for great buys on used fishing tackle. |
| gear but just can,t come up with the big dollars | | | | Particularly if you live in an area where there is |
| needed to buy it? A new fly reel by a top maker | | | | good fishing you will find lots of good tackle for |
| can cost $200 and up and a really good fly rod is | | | | sale weekly at local garage sales. Get yourself out |
| in the same price league. Add a good line, leaders, | | | | of bed early on Saturday mornings, get to the |
| a box of flies and a landing net and you can be | | | | sales before the crowd gets there, and you will |
| looking at over $500. That is a lot of money by | | | | find amazing buys on used fishing tackle in many |
| any standard. If you are an average wage earner | | | | sales. Less than $100 will buy you what would |
| with a home and family to keep it is probably well | | | | cost $500 new if you shop carefully. |
| beyond what you can afford. | | | | Be prepared to make offers to the sellers. |
| Fortunately there is a simple solution to this | | | | Garage sale prices are always negotiable and the |
| problem. Buy used fishing tackle and save a | | | | experienced buyer always makes a lower offer |
| bundle on your outfit. Now I know that the very | | | | than the tag price. Fishing tackle boxes full of |
| idea of something "used" conjures up visions, for | | | | lures, flies, leaders and assorted items can often |
| some people, of beaten up old items that are not | | | | be bought for $10 to $20 with contents which |
| worth having at any price. Actually nothing could | | | | would cost hundreds of dollars to buy new. In |
| be further from the truth. Many rods, reels and | | | | fact garage sales can be your way to get that |
| lures in new or near new condition are quite easy | | | | top quality tackle which is simply not affordable at |
| to find and to buy at a small fraction of their new | | | | the new price. Check out your local garage sales |
| value. You do not have to go without top quality | | | | and you will see how true this is. |
| tackle because you can,t afford the new price. A | | | | |