salukipv1

you need more options...

i think it use to be worth it, in regards to fines etc....to poach etc...no license, which is what you're proposing...nowadays though, laws, fines and penalities are stiff! and totally not worth it.

And even when fines weren't stiff, it's wrong to poach etc...

CT-Hunter

They are talking about the same thing in CT, a doubling of license and tag fees. Here too the fund will go from the conservation fund into the general fund. They are also eliminating the self-funded pheasant program (to hunt pheasant on public land in CT you buy a stamp and the revenue from the stamp buys pheasants which are stocked by volunteers on public land).

The fact that a doubling of fees with the elimination of pheasant stocking will result in less rather than more revenues as marginal hunters (folks who go out once or twice a year or only chase pheasants) and people who buy tags that they don't use for whatever reason, stop buying licenses and tags, is lost on the legislature. The decline in licenses will also result in a loss of Pittman-Robertson revenues which, I understand (maybe incorrectly) are based at least in part of number of license holders. In other words the state is not only screwing the hunters and fishermen, it is screwing itself.

But this is Barry O's America where bipartisanship means we forgo our right to disagree so as to blindly follow the chosen one and his minions off a cliff.

DoctorDeath

RIGHT ON CT ..... if it walks like a duck....quacks like a duck and looks like a duck ..its MOST likely a duck !


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CIDEERHUNTER

i have a lifetime license so they can bump tags up if they want

timbercruiser

You need to check the state law, but I know one state you must establish a 91 day residence and then you can legally buy a lifetime resident license.

newton29

An Arkansas legislator just proposed to reduce fishing and hunting licenses to $1.50 as a "Sportsman's Stimulus".Teen pregnancy and heart disease aside, we have our priorities right.

1928you

i axidentally clicked on tacke the chance but i would really pay for it.

Champlain Islander

I will always pay for a license to hunt and fish. Not buying a license and paying a fine isn't the way I was brought up. It isn't about money it is about doing the right thing.