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This years resident sport fishing license will cost $37.50 versus last year $34.90. That is a 7½% increase. Don't think that we will see any more fish for our "dues". LOL [
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..not surprised on the increase... I had heard it was going up...and dont forget that you have to get a stamp for a second rod..and a stamp for salt water... etc.. CA just loves nickle and diming you on stamps...lol...
MacFly
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Our combination license is $34 and a second pole permit is $15. I think a season fishing license is around $27. No increase this year.
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Our licenses went up last year by over 50%.
But it was the first increase in 15 or more years.
I think it was a good thing.
Actually the fishing license itself went up only 25% but there was a new Habitat Stamp requirement added ($10.25)
All fisherman and hunters are required to have the stamp. Any nonfishermen/hunter that access "State Wildlife Aareas" are required to have a stamp also.
From the DOW website
"The loss of habitat is the single most significant cause of wildlife population decline in Colorado. Recognizing the need to preserve Colorado's wildlife habitat for future generations, a group of sportsmen and conservationists took its idea of a habitat stamp program to the state legislature, where it was enacted into legislation and signed by Gov. Bill Owens."
"Funds from the sale of .... stamps will be used to benefit wildlife by preserving habitat. It is estimated the stamp program will raise $2.3 million each year. In adopting the stamp, the legislature expressed a strong desire to prevent habitat loss and fragmentation in Colorado's sagebrush communities where a variety of wildlife currently thrives.
A citizen committee appointed by the governor will review projects and make funding recommendations to the Colorado Wildlife Commission yearly."
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For us Salty Dawgs, we are paying an extra 50cent increase for the saltwater stamp in Cali. It went from 3.70 to 4.20.
I don't mind the extra few cents. I do all types of fishing in fresh and saltwater. I even flyfish from the surf at the beach.[cool]
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