I think it’s relatively cheaper than it was years ago and bait doesn’t have to cost you anything, you can go and dig some worms and catch fish so all that costs is time.
It’s only starts to cost a lot of money when you got high end or matching equipment.
years ago you had to buy a rod license for every region you fished in now it’s just the 1
im sure it was about 4 or 5 quid a rod for each region in the early 80’s
we used to walk.
im sure if we went back to the roots we could do it for next to nothing.