So I know some of us carry multiple state licenses each year. Do you just get the license for the time you'll be fishing? Get a yearly nonresident? Also what states do you keep a license in? I am fortunate to live in Western North Carolina which is a very central location to many legendary bass fishing lakes. My dad lives in KY and my wife's family live in Virginia Beach so I keep multiple states yearly licenses each year. I have a lifetime license in NC and I live just across the border into NC above Hartwell so I keep a SC yearly nonres license as well. Kentucky gets a yearly nonres license but Virginia usually just gets a license for when I actually take my boat since my brother in law is a guide on the Chesapeake bay and usually I'm fishing salt(which is covered by his boat license) when we go visit the inlaws. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I bought a lifetime Alabama license when I lived there 30 years ago.  Very glad I did.   I occasionally fish in Kentucky but not enough to justify an annual license.  Oh yeah,  I also carry a Tennessee license.

IL, IN, and MI for me during a normal year.  

 

scott

2, Mass and Maine.

Nebraska (home), Iowa, and South Dakota. 

Just one now, a NY non-resident, don't need one here in NJ anymore once you're past 70.

Yearly, IL,WI, IN. I do occasionally fish in MI and IA, but when I do, it's just for the period when I'm there. 

When my brother was alive I did CT and MA, now it’s just MA. I never did find any good bass ponds in CT where I am, right on the border.

Missouri, CT and NY

Indiana, Kentucky, Florida & Alabama. 
 

Indiana is yearly with the others being as needed when on site. 

Just one, WA state. 😮😇

Nonresident Arkansas 

IL and IN every year

 

This year I'll be getting a WI license for the first time in a few years since I have a few tournaments I'll be fishing.  Undecided about Michigan at this time.  

Ma and Nh every year

Just MN - I don't have the opportunity to fish other states despite WI being fairly close.

NYS - yearly resident. 

GA, SC, TX, FL, AL, and TN.

 

I get around.

Lifetime VA license.

Yearly non resident WV license.

What's odd,

VA is a rolling year, year from date of purchase.

WV is a calendar year, ends the last day of December regardless of date of purchase.

this usually works for me down here in texas, but when it doesn't I also carry a texas fishing license

 

Ga. only. PO says if I leave Georgia they'll get me and I ain't going back.

Resident Missouri and Non-Resident Illinois.

Lifetime AL license for me. TN if I’m fishing Dale Hollow or one of the rivers near my daughters house. 

Lifetime Tn. sportsman, lifetime NY fishing, Al, Ky, Fl, and this summer Vt & Ont.

Arkansas Lifetime Over 65, includes Trout Permit;  annual Missouri Border Lakes.

All I need is a license to ill. 
 

 

Oh, you mean fishing licenses. Probably only three this year: NY, OH, and PA.