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I would oppose it....here is my reasoning but its how I hunt in Idaho. I have to buy my hunting license and then buy a tag for deer and elk and any other animals I want to hunt....then my archery permit, and then my muzzleloader permit, and my duck stamp. By the time I buy all my different licenses and permits i'm spending like $100 where the guy who just has to buy a general tag and can hunt with a rifle which is WAY easier than archery or muzzleloader just has to buy a tag then hunt without any special licenses or permits. So why should I have to pay just cause I hunt more than he does and have less probability of killing something because of the limitations. Most years I don't fill one or the other of my big game tags, I just enjoy being outside from September-November. If I had to buy a normal fishing license and an ice fishing license and had different regulations that would suck in my opinion just cause I like to fish more than everyone else. I don't even eat fish! I just like to do it. Everything I catch is released unless it is hooked bad then it is given to a coworker. No thank you to more licenses or tags. My opinion and I hope nobody is offended.
I don't hunt anymore, but here in NY, the archery tags allow you to hunt earlier in the season. Isn't that an incentive to getting it? Is it not the same where you are?
Is this a joke? Let me get this straight. You want more fees and more regulation? That's what creel, size, slot limits are for aren't they? Why impose more regulations specifically for ice fishing?Your comparison of ice fisherman being close to each other vs boats is moot. The cost of ice fishing is not the same as the cost of fishing and having a boat. Guys can walk/drive right out to their fishing spot. Not everyone can afford a boat. Even then, for safety reasons boats must maintain a safe distance. This is a hard NO for me.
Gosh, why stop at that? How about separate lisc for each body of water? If a particular lake is getting too much pressure, just increase the lisc fee for that lake. More fees,more taxes, it's the American way.
I don't like the fact that the OP prefaces his suggestion by mentioning the amount of fishing pressure on his main lake. Sounds like a veiled attempt to reduce the crowd under the guise of a new imposed fee towards stocking.We want to grow the sport don't we? Why create new barriers to entry? Especially when a regular fishing license already provides that that privilege.
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Really? What do you suggest for lakes that end up with trash floating everywhere and fishery almost destroyed at the end of ice season?
This is what I know every year or so we have a new fee stamps or licences come to pass, all with the guise of going to a good cause saving the loon for instance ultimately never being used for intended purpose. I have a better way to "fix" one of the issues pick up trash when you find it. People are slobs and we as sportsman sometime have to pick up trash I know it sucks I do every year. As far as over fishing is concerned F&G regulate the amount of fish that can be legally take from most bodies of water and replenish on a semi annual basis. How do you know the water is over fished? Have you spoke to F&G? Did you ask someone from PETA? or is it your intuition telling you this.I jest a little.
Yeah it allows you to hunt earlier, but that is like saying you need a special ice fishing license so you have the privilege of fishing later in the year (November and December in some places) and earlier in the year (January and February) in some places. I don't think that because I'm out more that I should have to pay more.
