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Location: searchin for 50 | Just a FYI Wisconsin Residents Licenses expire today You need a new one tomorrow.  |
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| Same with IL residents. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Lifetime license is a great investment for so many reasons. I've had one for about 8 years now. I just bought one for my God son who turns 16 later this year. Actually a combo sportsmans license (hunt/fish). Avoid any all increases in fees in the years to come. Particularly with the hunting side, you retain resident priveleges for life even if you move out of state which means no lotto for deer tags. Illinois has a proposed increase in fishing licenses awaiting a vote down in Springfield. Residents going from $12.50 to $19.50. Plus you are advancing the state some much needed funds to work with in the here/now. No commments necessary on mismanaged funds.......I "get" that side of the argument too. Look at it this way.... you are preventing any futurre increases in the amount of "your" money that the state can mismanage by locking in now with a lifetime license. I just wish I would have done it a couple of years earlier. Actually I wish I would have done it when I was 16. I would have been grandfathered in before the "Habitat Stamp" requirement. Any way I urge all of you to consider it no matter which state you live in.
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I agree Karl, just too bad Wisconsin doesn't have anything like that. Otherwise, it would definitely be in my wallet. |
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Location: searchin for 50 | Maybe we could do this at the spring hearings. At least discuss it or an advisory ? I'm gonna check into it anyway.
Edited by Raider150 3/31/2009 1:11 PM
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Location: SW MI | Michigan too. |
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| Jeeeez...
IL, MI, IN, WI, KY, Canada...
This is gettin' expensive!
I guess a national license wouldn't make sense for a lot of different reasons, but it sure would make things easy! |
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| Just a note for those who will be buying a license soon, you can purchase one with a M.C. on the internet through most states' DNR site. One advantage of choosing this alternative is the option to print off 2-3 copies. I like to keep one in my boat, one in my wallet, and one in a drawer in case of loss over the course of a long season. |
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| Indiana did away with their lifetime license a few years ago... |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Very good idea, I have had to replace a license and it's a pain in the lower extremities. |
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Location: Syracuse, Indiana | The Indiana experience with lifetime licenses was simply that they are a financial boon for the holder, but not for the state. Indiana's DNR lost revenue on the lifetime experiment. If you buy a lifetime license (or even if you don't), please work closely with your MI chapter (or other entity) and your DNR to ensure needed goods and services are not cut. |
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| dcates - 3/31/2009 5:35 PM
The Indiana experience with lifetime licenses was simply that they are a financial boon for the holder, but not for the state.
This is exactly why I wouldn't be in favor of a lifetime license. The 40 bucks I spend to get the standard license and my trout stamps is a very cheap investment for how much time I spend on the water. If you go fishing 100 times in one year, which many of us do, and purchase the trout stamps that's a mere 40 cents per trip. Think about that when you complain about how much licenses cost the next time you drop 25 bucks on a new bait or are signing the papers on a boat in excess of 30k.
In a time when government agencies are scrambling to find any source of income a lifetime license would severely hurt the DNR's revenue stream and we'd eventually feel it with more cutting of stocking programs, fewer biologist positions, etc. |
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| one of the benefits of living in one state and going to school in another. I get residence privileges in Wisconsin and Illinois! I buy one every year and I really wish I would get them checked more than once a season. |
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