I don't like paying higher fees any more than anyboby else. But one has to look at the big picture. Fishing (and any other outdoor activity) is strictly recreation for 99% of us. Nobody is going to starve if they can't fish or get that deer. If you compare the annual cost of admission (park entrance and lake fee $56.00)) to other forms of recreation, it is still cheap. Heck, it cost my wife, son, and myself, $27.00 to get into the movies the other night. Look at the cost of Pro-sports tickets, concert tickets, race tickets, etc. And in this case, like Slowretrieve said, the more you go, the less it is per trip. The increasing costs of doing business affects the state just like it affects us on a personal level. Therefore, the state has to offset those costs by increasing fees in order to maintain the same level of service. I'm going fishing, and not gripe about the cost.