Paperboy budget

back in the early seventies delivered the Santa Cruz Sentinel for about $27 per month that's about $0.90 an hour. with limited income I would use bicycle rims with chicken wire stretched and tied as my crab nets. would fish them at the Santa Cruz Harbor jetty with success. would this be legal in accordance to regs in today's day and age ?

Was your crab net a trap, or more like a hoop ring?

I don't see why it wouldn't be legal, as long as your DIY crab nets meet CDFW standards.

Also.. that's pretty cool.

Great you started the I remember when's, mine is I remember when a pack of cigarettes, 10 gallons of gas and two large drinks was UNDER $20

The regs say you have to use soft mesh and the inside diameter needs to be between 10"-36". So swap out the chicken wire for soft mesh and it should be fine.

I blew all my paper route money on baseball cards. Still have 'em.

The Salinas Californiain, north half of Castroville about 1982. I spent all my money on micro jigs and squid. Lol. I'm pretty sure FishMaster1 used to follow me around bugging me.

Cool hearing stories from the past ..

Good memories, I delivered the Sentinel in 72-73. I think the rate was a penny per paper per day. I had a large route ~ 110 houses so I made in the neighborhood of $33 / month. Big money for a 6th grader at the time. Half in the savings acct and I'm pretty sure I spent all of the other half on fishing gear. Bought a new Mitchell 300 reel, Fenwick rod, bass plugs, spoons and spinners etc. Used to hoop net the SC wharf and fish the harbor jetty also.
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The Sentinel was a cool paper I remember them writing up football games I played in even when the Californian didn't and they were much closer in Salinas.  One of my high school social studies teachers wife was a photographer for the Sentinel and walked right in the high school boys locker room's back in those days LOL. I had a big route too but a lot of people in Castroville weren't springing for the newspaper.  Even 10 years after you were a carrier I think my 60 customers made me less than $20 a month.  I remember wanting a pair of Puma sneakers and not being able to afford it with a months pay, I think that they were $17. I spent a lot of time underneath the Old highway 1 bridge at the mouth of Elkhorn Slough fishing off the two dollar pay to fish docks before the new bridge and Skippers and Mortimers burned down.

I started my route for th Santa Rosa press democrat in 1984, I got $2.75 per customer, $5 for a new start, and tips. I had ~50 customers and by that point the had a Saturday edition so it was a 7 day a week job and I was lucky to make $150 per month and $200 in December. I had to collect door to door. In 2 years I only had one complaint and it was because I made a bad throw and landed the paper on someone's roof. I even went to the newspaper stand a mile away to buy a replacement.

can't remember the last time I saw a paperboy delivering newspapers here in California probably has to do with labor laws / lawsuits/ insurance ect ect ect.
 I'm sure it instilled good work ethics and a chance for a kid to make some extra money. I would set aside 4 or $5 and wait for the Longs Drug Store to have their sale on snelled hooks at a nickel for a pack of 6.
 after getting my Supply Id feel like a rich kid. down to the automotive repair shop for my spark plugs that i would use as my fishing weights. then it was off to the cove for many blessed days of fishing using mussels off the rocks as bait.    Good Times

i always wanted to be a paperboy, but instead mowed lawns for money. i spent most of it buying fishing tackle at tri-city sporting goods and ice cream cones at thrifty's.   

Memories......

There were times I spent all my route money on Donkey Kong video games and my parents had to chip in so I could turn in the money collected.  It was the early version of buying on credit. 

Also caught grass shrimp in the bay with the front metal part of an old metal fan.  A can of cat food in the middle and a three harness homemade rope was all it took.  Then I was all over the sturgeon. 

Good times.