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How Much Money Do You Spend On Fishing Licenses Anually

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  • Super User

i have a lifetime hunting/fishing in NC - so that's zero bucks

resident license here in GA was like $13 (includes trout permit needed for fishing the chatahoochee)

last year i bought an alabama license, may do that again.  it was pricey though i think $65 for out of state.

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$29...that is the cost of one NYS resident. My wife never goes, so we don't buy her one, and both my kids are under the age in which NYS requires one.

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My MA Sporting License cost me $64.99.  That covers fresh and salt water and hunting with an archery stamp & doe permit.

I spend $58.50 for two states. What gets me is my state was $8.50 a year for at least 25 years, then one year they jumped it up to $19 out of nowhere. It's not the price that gets me, it's the fact that all that money gets poured into saltwater boat ramps and trout. They do absolutely nothing for freshwater ramps or bass management of any kind.

I feel the same except no salt here in Pa but all of our money goes to the trout and our stocking system has really gone down hill the last 7 years at least around me I feel. Now I spend roughly $90 for 2 states 21.70 for home state but I would gladly pay more if they did more for the lakes. They did down some trees in one of our lake last year which was great. But the lakes I grew up right beside they do nothing to. They put ridiculous boat launches in which are more in the way then anything and I've seen my fair share of boats beat up on the slides they put in. Sorry for ranting but I feel that they care more about the brand new trucks the fish commission gets and every one of them has a carry .45 and their suits getting pressed and dry cleaned then they do our lakes. They just waste to much of our money

0$. Living the high school fishing life until I turn 16, when I have to start paying.

Hey everyone,  I believe I pay around 50 dollars for a two pole license in my state, although I rarely am using two poles at once. I also  usually buy some day licenses when traveling through states.

In NH a freshwater license is $37.  That is $35 for the license and $2 'transaction fee'.  We can still get onto most lakes using a free public launch but there are pay sites around if you are particular about where you want to put in.

0$. Living the high school fishing life until I turn 16, when I have to start paying.

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Better check that number   :)

Ooop.....$25 per season.

Santa stuffs my stocking with a license every year. I think they hit him up for about fifty greenies. The licensing is nothing compared to the ramp fees which are typically about twenty to twenty five, sometimes more if you bring you're dog. Yearly passes are roughly two hundred plus, but one local municipal lake punches up four hundred. Clear Lake has mostly free launching, but you must pay about twenty per month for Quagga mussel inspection on your boat. Ahh, California.

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This thread reminded me that I needed a new license... Went to Walmart and spent 18$ on a 1 year fishing license, yeesh...

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Depends on my summer work schedule. Last year I had licenses for Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Alabama. One time, a few years back I had licenses for Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. That was an expensive year.

$5.00 for my Maryland full senior lic, includes everything . $26.00 for my Delaware out of state lic, includes freshwater, coastal, and trout. So $31.00 total.

$130 for a beach pass, 32.50 for tidal and non tidal in MD, includes crabbing license, $22.50 for Delaware and another $40 for ramp access...

Nothing for Kansas, lifetime combo hunt/fish license. $42 for a Missouri non-resident permit is all I usually pay.

$26 here in Michigan

$31 for husband wife license in wisconsin, plus $20 each for inland and Great Lakes trout and salmon stamps.

I usually get 3 year fishing license in the state of Iowa for 50 dollars. I think 30 dollars non resident in Illinois. Other 40 in Missouri. I'm getting Wisconsin pretty soon.

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Depends on how many of the lake permits I buy. I usually buy;

Missouri Non-resident-$42

Kansas resident fish/trout/3 pole combo-$52

Wabaunsee year boat/fish permit-$82

Jacomo boat permit-$62

KS state park year vehicle pass-$15

Linn County parks year ramp pass-$15

I used to also buy the Wyandotte County year boat/fish/trout permit for $100 but now that it's a 40 minute drive I didn't last year. 

Let's see, MD, PA, NY, WV, VA, FL, SC, NC, GA ect., that comes out to a lot. Brian.

I got a 5 year so I think it comes out to $16 a year give or take

25.50 for freshwater and trout stamp seems like it goes up every year here in maryland

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