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The cost of a fishing license is some of the cheapest, most worthwhile entertainment you can get these days. I would support a lot more than $5.
How many of you that are complaining about the increase fish tournaments? With all of the entry fees, etc., you are paying, it's a little hard to give much credibility to some whining about a tiny increase in the license fee.
Lets see
A week at ky Lake; room 6 nights 250
Gas for boat 100
slip at J C 75
Food 100
Replace broke
lost rods.etc. 150
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675
If you have a limit each day 180
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2 fillet each 360
$ 1.875 per Fillet to give away to neigbors
This does not incude cost of boat,truck,eqpt.insurance
week of vacation!
VALUE OF TRIP -------------------- PRICELESS!!!!!!
Rowdy
The funds from fishing license has been investigated several times and never has been a misuse of funds found. The money for that you pay for those license is the biggest reason you can still catch some good fish in your lakes. It goes for stocking and managing the fish mostly. I will not argue against a raise in price of license. Me myself I think we have alot better force of wardens now then we ever had and plus them now having to do water patrol as well as game management, my hats off to them. According to what I have read this state has one of the best fish management programs in the USA. No beef with the higher cost of license here.
$40.00 is still less than the cost of one tank of gas I use round trip to the lake.
When was the last time there was an increase? When was the last the expenses went up, then consider the fact that the cost of gas for KYFW went up just as much as it did for us, and you figure it is needed.
Maybe instead of going up $5 every 6 or 7 years or so, they could just go up the $2 every year. Then it would be a $12-14 increase over the same time.
Now I don't use Lucky Craft baits, I would cry if I lost a $20 lure, but think how much so many people will spend for a bait they think will be productive!
Remember, I got laid off in August, so despite what folks on here post, I am not rich. I'll still pay that $5 increase.
Danny
You make some excellent points there. I'm originally from a state that looks for every opportunity to screw it's outdoors enthusiasts that it can. I guess there is still some residual paranoia when the Gov. starts digging further into the ole' pockets. KY does have a fine F&W dept and the State parks are some of the best anywhere. Sorry about your employment situation...I'm in a similar boat. Hope 06 yields better opportunities for us both.
Best regards, Brian.
I've said that I'll have to do twice as much fishing this year to make it worth my while:)
why complain just be glad your still able to get out and do the 1 thing you love too do(atleast for me it is)
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jan-03-06 AT 08:22PM (EST)[/font][p]Trout permits went up 100%. From five to ten dollars. Ever hang in to a 20 inch brown in swift water, or got a somach cramp laughing at your wife when she through her cookie and drink at you when a 12 inch rainbow almost took her rod? I paid the 10 dollars and smiled.
Why is it that we will spend 30 grand on a boat, 6 hundred on two rods, a couple hundred on lures, 75 on gas for the boat for one trip, then fuss about a couple dollars a year to protect what we have?
Steve
Sorry, didn't mean for that to sound like bashing.
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jan-05-06 AT 09:57PM (EST)[/font][p]hey kingfisher what part of the west are you from?
I have friends that live cali. and visit them a couple times a year.
i agree you almost have to be rich to fish out west with all the fee's. A non-res, 10 day license cost me $35.00.
Then the lakes charge at least $3.00 per person plus $7.00 to launch a boat. $6.50 to park a truck&trailer.
Anyway it would cost almost $20.00 for 2 people to get into the lake.
Which seems high but the lakes are stocked quite often with flordia bass & rainbow trout to feed them.
If kentucky stocked the waters as often as other states instead of once every 10 years.
Then i wouldn't have a problem paying $30.00 a year.
Well thats feelings on the matter.
Anyway send me an email i would like to chat with you about the west. I'm fishing a stren series tournament at lake havasu at the first of feb.
[email][email protected][/email]
I am in agreement with most everyone else. I think the fees could hav increased even more and it would still be a "bargin". There is very little a person can do in the name of intertainment, relaxation and just plain fun that doesn't cost much more. As long as I can afford the cost, I will pay and not complain.