A long time ago I bought an Indiana comprehensive lifetime fishing license. It paid for itself after about 17-18 years.Just bought a 5 year, Sportsman Gold hunting/fishing licenses. Normally $500, was $275, with hard card, and I went ahead and rounded up for youth hunting programs.
Let me get this straight. The state wants you to pay $3 to get counted after buying a lifetime license to fish so they can get more $ because they can't account for the license you already bought? That sounds like govt working at it's best.A long time ago I bought an Indiana comprehensive lifetime fishing license. It paid for itself after about 17-18 years.
Indiana cancelled the program a while back because federal dollars to the state's fish and wildlife programs are based on the number of fishing and hunting licenses sold the previous year. So anyone with a lifetime license purchased previously was not counted and reduced the $$ from the federal government.
Same thing with senior citizens that didn't require a license, or active military, etc...
Now they offer a voluntary license for something like $3 that you can purchase even if you don't require a license so that you get counted towards fed dollars.
They CAN account for the lifetime licenses... the Fed won't let them.Let me get this straight. The state wants you to pay $3 to get counted after buying a lifetime license to fish so they can get more $ because they can't account for the license you already bought? That sounds like govt working at its best.Uhm, no.
Still ... ridiculous. Govt at it's best.They CAN account for the lifetime licenses... the Fed won't let them.