Fishing general 470 calories burned??I question this!

I guess it depends on what fishing you are doing and if you are catching anything. I can see that fly fishing would burn more because you are continually casting and reeling in. On the other hand the fishing with casting out and sitting witha can in your hand wouldnt be much at all

I fish with scouts and it does matter how you do it:-) up/down banks climbing/walking constant casting fly fishing padding a canoe etc. Getting to the magic spot can be rough.

Then rarely there's the sit in a chair on the bank and the crazy fish just beg to jump on your line - extremely rare but nice when it happens

To "watchmelose2" (I don't know how to reply specifically to your post!) It depends on the type of heart rate monitor you have. Mine shows me how many calories I burn in a workout as well as when I'm in the fat burning range for my height, weight, gender, etc. Very handy! I couldn't live without mine now!

First of all, fishing is an outdoors pursuit. As a general rule you get cold in most temperate climes and therefore the majority of the calories burned will be in creating heat. Secondly, you will be walking to and from the fishing spot. On average I walk about 4-5km each time I go river fishing. Thirdly and this is where the waders come in, if you have ever fished in waders you really have a battle with the cold so you can double the calories for staying warm. Finally you have all the casting and general activity that goes with fishing in a river.

Having said all that I do think the calories are high for this, but I lose a stone in a week every fishing holiday I go on, which is the same as I do on my skiing holidays and generally speaking they have the same results on myfitnesspal, so maybe the numbers are right after all.

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

I used this link for any activity that I can not track via bike, pedometer, or elliptical. I hope it helps.

well that depends on lake fishing or ocean fishing

I have a heart rate monitor! But it don't tell you how many calories your burning! It just lets you know you are in a calorie burning range! In other words, you have to get your heart rate up so high, before you start burning fat calories! This does not help you on how many calories you are burning!

I would question what kind of HRM you own then. I have a Polar F4 and it tells me all sorts of good things like how long I worked out, what my average heart rate was, what my max heart rate was, how many calories I burned, how long I was in my ideal heart rate range, etc. I have tried 3 of the HRM that is just the watch part (without a chest strap) and I found them to be inaccurate and a pain to use as you had to take your heart rate by pressing two fingers on the sensors anytime you slowed down or sped up your movement. The chest strap type monitors it constantly, without requiring you to do ANYTHING extra. It's just much more user friendly IMO!!! More expensive yes, but I've had mine for 5 years now and it's still working. Only thing I've had to do was change the battery in it. You simply put in your age, weight, height and you're good to go. Simply press "start" when you begin your workout, "stop" when you're thru, and it tells you exactly how many calories you burned (along with the other info I mentioned above).

If your HRM doesn't tell you calories burned, I'd invest in a new one. The best investment I've made ever.

I fish, and to me it's the best cardio excersice I know.... I am all saltwater. So if i am not on a boat I walking a mile or so to get to my favorite spot, then it's the climbing down the hill/ stones... casting continuously, while trying to balance on the rock ( I call this my core training)... now if you catch a 30in blue or 28 in striper you have a pretty good workout there trying to reel it in... when your done, your climbing back up hills/stone with all your gear PLUS carrying fish.... now on the boat. your body is going through some workout while standing and dealing with the waves and again casting and fighting fish.... like i said i am all saltwater and I know I burn more calories fishing for 3 hours than I do one hour on a machine

This is how I fish....It's totally >250 cals / hour.

Fishing is very high, but then again the science of being cold and calorie burn supports high burn if you are cold. If you are standing for 6 hours in your nicky nacky noos in waders - I can tell you from experience that you are burning huge amounts of calories keeping warm. I am not sure what sitting thigh deep in 2 degree water burns, but I would imagine it is a lot. I do however question passive fishing figures on the data base.

Fly fishing, I can walk 4 miles across uneven ground and am always fighting the cold, so by my estimates being out for the day walking for 4 miles gets me roughly to 500 calories, keeping warm in the river must get me another 700 with the turbo charge to the metabolism required. I know that a week of fly fishing on about 3600 calories a day and I don't gain or lose and my maintenance calories are 2400. So I must be burning 1,200 extra on the fishing thereabouts.

I have a HRM and I burn massive amts of calories while fishing on shore. I cast and reel fish in repeatedly plus walk/climb up and down the rocks (more like boulders) on shore. I also have to walk up the big hill to use the bathroom. I always wondered how 'fishing' exhausted me and now I know!

This website normally estimates calories burned really high. I have a HRM and wearing that during exercise I burn about half of what MFP tells me.