03-29-2011, 12:45 AM
on my side of the pond, we have various ways of buying a fishing license, tho I realy dont know why..
you have the option of getting a resident or non resident one day license or a couple day license or a regular license. ya there is a price differance, and I can understand the non resident partial season license for those who will be here for a day or three, it is the resident partial license I dont understand.
what I mean is, It is hard for me to understand a resident who would only go fishing one or two days a year.. [:p]
we have our basic licenses.
Regular License. 14.oo
Trout License. 14.oo
Stergeon License. Buy one get one free.
now here's the trick,
if you want to fish for stergeon, and only stergeon, you have to have a regular license before you can get a stergeon license.
If you want to fish for trout and only trout, you first have to buy a regular license before you can get a trout license.
we used to have years ago, a different license system. We used to have to buy a regular license then go to the post office to buy a trout stamp. lol... and there was no need for a stergeon license cuz it is included.
over the years, we went from a paper license with a stamp to two licenses, and people would buy only the trout license, but fished all waters not just the trout streams. that went on for nearly a decade before the state relized we were loosing license revenues and these guys were fishing for bass and gills and walleyes... So they finaly wised back up and created an all species license. Wich by the way dose not cover all species... lol
our all species license runs 28.oo. but you can get the additional stergeon license for an outragous cost of 0.oo dollars.[:p]
Stergeon in michgan you are limited to one a year, so it is mandated that you show your intentions of targeting a stergeon before you attempt to catch it. Dont go out and accidently catch one and then try to get a license.. thats a big no-no..
after you catch a stergeon you have 24 hours to get it turned in to be measured, weighted, and counted. and your license is the same as a deer license, it must be attached to your stergeon.
all tho licenses go up here, I dont complain after visittin the local fish market. If I had to buy fish once a week, I would go broke.
I remember when I first started buying my licenses, I paid $21.oo. dosnt sound like much of a price change, not untill I tell you what that paid for.
It covered my;
fishing license
small game license
deer license
trapping license
bear license
the best part was, my wife got to fish on my license.
what it did not cover was a migritory state and federal water fowl stamps and trout stamp. those were all extra and had to be picked up at the post office. one other license at the time was an upland game bird license was a lottery. "put and take Phesant" now is included in your small game license.
now I cant buy all those licenses with out getting lucky in a lottery draw. "Bear is now a lottery draw license" in addition there are now two more licenses that did not exist back then. turkey and elk.....
so ya, I have gone from spending 28 dollars a including my trout stamp to close to 400.oo for all those licenses.
true the price has gone up, back when I was buying a loaf a bread for 10 cents, today it is now 2.65 cents for the same loaf.
every thing has gone up +200% since that day when I bought my first license except my income, that only went up by 100%...
I am getting broker by the minute...
I feal for ya bud...
btw, did dan bring you a bottle of his sig vodka?
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you have the option of getting a resident or non resident one day license or a couple day license or a regular license. ya there is a price differance, and I can understand the non resident partial season license for those who will be here for a day or three, it is the resident partial license I dont understand.
what I mean is, It is hard for me to understand a resident who would only go fishing one or two days a year.. [:p]
we have our basic licenses.
Regular License. 14.oo
Trout License. 14.oo
Stergeon License. Buy one get one free.
now here's the trick,
if you want to fish for stergeon, and only stergeon, you have to have a regular license before you can get a stergeon license.
If you want to fish for trout and only trout, you first have to buy a regular license before you can get a trout license.
we used to have years ago, a different license system. We used to have to buy a regular license then go to the post office to buy a trout stamp. lol... and there was no need for a stergeon license cuz it is included.
over the years, we went from a paper license with a stamp to two licenses, and people would buy only the trout license, but fished all waters not just the trout streams. that went on for nearly a decade before the state relized we were loosing license revenues and these guys were fishing for bass and gills and walleyes... So they finaly wised back up and created an all species license. Wich by the way dose not cover all species... lol
our all species license runs 28.oo. but you can get the additional stergeon license for an outragous cost of 0.oo dollars.[:p]
Stergeon in michgan you are limited to one a year, so it is mandated that you show your intentions of targeting a stergeon before you attempt to catch it. Dont go out and accidently catch one and then try to get a license.. thats a big no-no..
after you catch a stergeon you have 24 hours to get it turned in to be measured, weighted, and counted. and your license is the same as a deer license, it must be attached to your stergeon.
all tho licenses go up here, I dont complain after visittin the local fish market. If I had to buy fish once a week, I would go broke.
I remember when I first started buying my licenses, I paid $21.oo. dosnt sound like much of a price change, not untill I tell you what that paid for.
It covered my;
fishing license
small game license
deer license
trapping license
bear license
the best part was, my wife got to fish on my license.
what it did not cover was a migritory state and federal water fowl stamps and trout stamp. those were all extra and had to be picked up at the post office. one other license at the time was an upland game bird license was a lottery. "put and take Phesant" now is included in your small game license.
now I cant buy all those licenses with out getting lucky in a lottery draw. "Bear is now a lottery draw license" in addition there are now two more licenses that did not exist back then. turkey and elk.....
so ya, I have gone from spending 28 dollars a including my trout stamp to close to 400.oo for all those licenses.
true the price has gone up, back when I was buying a loaf a bread for 10 cents, today it is now 2.65 cents for the same loaf.
every thing has gone up +200% since that day when I bought my first license except my income, that only went up by 100%...
I am getting broker by the minute...
I feal for ya bud...
btw, did dan bring you a bottle of his sig vodka?
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