Your License(s) Costs

[Spankey]

Guys I renew my fishing license tomorrow. Not sure if I remember if I’ve ever seen a thread on here about what licenses cost us. Different states I’m sure have a variety of costs and types of permits that are associated with it. 

 

I will pay approximately $32.00 tomorrow for resident license and my trout stamp. 

 

Believe me, my thread is not a complaint by any means about costs. I get out on the water a lot. Or let’s say as much as I can, and will never be satisfied and want to be out more. I’m in PA so I can get a real winter and a winter that extends longer than I like it to into early Spring. That’s down time. Safe creek access for winter trout fishing is what I have to look for. 
 

Guys I love my bass fishing, especially Smallies on the river. Dinks, runts, respectables and beauties I’ll take it all and try to be satisfied. Along with fishing for Mr. Greenjeans up at the lake. 
 

My fishing for trouts goes way back as a kid. I can’t shake that. I have the ability to fish for native, wild and stocked trout all within a short drive or not that long of a drive. 
 

I’m not all that crazy about eating trout. I prefer to eat the small native Brook Trout grilled but they are catch and release along with the wild trouts unless I harm one. That is not very often if once in forever. Stock trout that’s a different story, I have family, friends, neighbors, co-workers who eat the heck out of them. All people who don’t fish. I enjoy giving them to them as much if not more than catching them. I hammer some stocked streams close to the house. It’s a mix of rainbow, brown and brooks. And I can fish these creeks without being a bridge rat or a communal hole fisher. I get off the beaten path. I find that brown trout seem to be trout that want to wander and spread out and get away from others but, I’m sure that just a coincidence. A biologist I am not. 
 

One of my friends she’s a single mom with a couple of kids claims I gave her 80 trout a few years back. Was alway getting pics of them cooking in the frying pan or on the grill. My one work buddy his mom (passed) you couldn’t give her enough of them. She had and maintained old Scottish roots. Trout was a big part of it, ????????? so I’m told. Don’t let me hold up a tradition. 
 

Sorry for being so long winded over the license costs, but in my case enjoyment far exceeds the cost. 
 

 

 

[Tennessee Boy]

It’s complicated in Tennessee.

 

I buy a basic annual $33 hunting and fishing license.  I typically don’t hunt.  Trout cost extra.   You can get a license to fish in your home county with natural bait (no minnows or lures) for $10.  Sportsman license cost $165 which covers just about everything for hunting and fishing.

[DogBone_384]

My MA sporting license covers hunting and fishing. Adding salt water fishing and archery gets me to $84.

[Steveo-1969]

WV Resident annual fishing license is $24 ($19 fishing license + $5 Conservation Stamp). Trout fisherman also need to purchase a $10 Trout Fishing Stamp.

[Junk Fisherman]

IL resident around $20 with a trout stamp

Michigan non-resident $75 without a tramp stamp and $35 for a non-resident Passport Pass for using DNR launches

Indiana non-resident $70 w/a trout stamp

I've stopped fishing Wisconsin due to not wanting to get another license and all the crazy IL tolls I'd have to pay to get to the IL/WI border.  

[Functional]

$25 gets you all inland waters

$16 gets you coastal waters

$41 gets you inland and coastal

$53 gets you inland and big game hunting

[Deleted account]

I dunno, I get several resident and not resident licenses every year, it adds up, but I just pay it and move on. I know FL leaves a welt...

[padlin]

Another MA, 65-69 is 14.75 for fresh and salt & 5 for the wildlife fund. 70+ is free. Combo is $27, then free @ 70. Plus the 5 of course.

[Catt]

Louisiana Senior License $5.00

 

Covers freshwater, saltwater, & all species hunting. Doesn't cover federal duck stamps or deer tags.

[WIGuide]

WI Resident fishing license is $20 for the year.

Inland trout stamps are $10

Great Lakes salmon/trout stamp another $10

Sturgeon license is $20

Resident Disabled license $7

Resident Veteran/Disabled $3

Resident Armed Forces $0.00

 

Non-Resident annual is $50

[the reel ess]

Ours is $10 for an annual resident fishing license and there are no extra species costs. There are several different trout restrictions and regulations to know. If you order online you pay a fee of about $3 for electronic processing. You can buy a 3 year for $30, which on the surface sounds dumb because there is no savings, except the processing fee. I don't know about hunting since I never do it.

[GaryH]

Like @Spankeysaid cost is reasonable.  Senior 65 + fishing and hunting free except for trout stamp.

[OkobojiEagle]

I'm paid up for the rest of my life...

[NJBasstard]

For ages 16-64 it's $22.50 here in NJ. Add an additional $10.50 for trout stamp.

 

I think the fee for ages 65-69 is $12.50 with trout stamp still at $10.50.

 

No cost for ages 70 and up.

[Susky River Rat]

I just paid a hair under $23 for my resident fishing license. I do not fish for trout so no trout stamp for me. I in the past I did get the voluntary musky stamp. I stopped that though. They guy who runs the musky program for PA said one thing and the stocking reports say another.  One of the reasons why I stopped fishing for them as well. 

[TnRiver46]

TN is approaching $60 per year for residents if you get a trout stamp. Last year and this year were the first times in my life I didn’t get a trout stamp. My wife loves trout and we got totally skunked on them for about a year so I quit buying the stupid thing. I can still fish for trout in the national park without the stamp if I need to appease the wife 

 

I would imagine we are one of the most expensive states. The DNR pays social media influencers thousand of our dollars to promote hunting and fishing to out of state people so they can sell even more expensive licenses. Then they tell us we over harvest our turkeys………

[Susky River Rat]

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

TN is approaching $60 per year for residents

Yikes that is steep! 

[Happybeerbuzz]

California:

 

Resident - $58.58

Non Res - $158.25

 

Second Rod Stamp - +$18.36.

[TnRiver46]

Just now, Darnold335 said:

Yikes that is steep! 

That’s with the trout stamp, but yes it’s highway robbery 

[Susky River Rat]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

That’s with the trout stamp, but yes it’s highway robbery 

Most places out of state annual licenses aren’t that much. I forget what I paid for my NJ annual license as an out of state. I also got a tidal water license for MD to fish below the wingo dam. Heck they offer a $50 bay sticker for the boat that allows everyone to fish. No need to by individual licenses.

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, Darnold335 said:

Most places out of state annual licenses aren’t that much. I forget what I paid for my NJ annual license as an out of state. I also got a tidal water license for MD to fish below the wingo dam. Heck they offer a $50 bay sticker for the boat that allows everyone to fish. No need to by individual licenses.

I can fish as a non resident in SC and NC cheaper than I can get one at home 

[Bankc]

$25 state (Oklahoma).  Then another $20 for the city (OKC) permit.  No trout stamps or anything anymore.  The only fish that requires an additional permit is a paddlefish, and they're free.  You just have to apply for them.  Lake Texoma requires its own, separate permit, if you decide to fish that lake.  Plus many lakes have fees.  But all-in-all, it's not bad here.  And while I have to pay a city permit for my kayak, I don't have to register it with the state, even though it has a trolling motor.  We don't even have to get a tag for our boat trailers here.  

[Susky River Rat]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

I can fish as a non resident in SC and NC cheaper than I can get one at home 

That’s a bummer man. Hopefully they do some d**n good conservation or stocking.  

3 minutes ago, Bankc said:

Plus many lakes have fees. 

Ramp fees? 

[Jmontgomery87]

Kansas resident hunt and fish without trout stamp is $47. Oklahoma non-resident fish is around $45. If I trout fish it's in Missouri and around $12 per day (I usually just go for one weekend).

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, Darnold335 said:

That’s a bummer man. Hopefully they do some d**n good conservation or stocking.  

 

They mostly just overpay everyone to do nothing, then claim to be underfunded and short staffed. Typical govt