I pay for three club tickets; £60 for Newlands in Standlake, £20ish quid for North Oxford AA and £20ish quid for Kidlington Angling club (which also gives me membership of ODAA and gets me miles of the rive thames).
That all seems pretty good value, however having recently been on a weekend trip around the Ringwood/ fordingbridge area where me and some mates had Christchurch Angling Club tickets, it did make me realise that some clubs have a much more multi-dimensional aspect. It's frustrating in Oxfordshire just how little still water fishing there is (unless you want to pitch up for days on end and catch carp). And whilst there's lots of fish in the thames, it's not a spot of a river that really moves like the wye or the avon.
So for me - at the bottom of the "cost" list - would be a club water I pay approx. 38p a week to fish, where i'll go chub fishing for a few hours with a 50p loaf of liquidised bread for feed and keep a few slices for hookbait. I might go on my push bike, so it really is costing me less than a quid to go.
At the other end of the scale, i'll go down to the wye with a couple of mates for a weekend away..... Wye and Usk day tickets are £25 a day, accommodation will be in the region of £50 each per night and food and wine/ ale will easily top £30 a night so I'm looking at the other side of £100 for a "day's" fishing. However, I would actually say that the latter gives me better value for money as I look forward to it more and get a lot more out of it (those trips are just as important for more from the social perspective as for the fishing).
And then there's probably a number of scenarios inbetween. An interesting recent development on this is my 12 year old lad becoming very interested (obsessed even!) with angling over the last year or so. So now I need to figure in his bait, tickets, gear etc. Do I begrudge that? Not at all! I'm investing in a future where the onus will be on him to take his old man and get him out of the house!