How many Non-Res licenses do you buy?

After 45 years running a business, along with most of 25 years doing elder care. My wife and I are finally somewhat freed up to travel. I know a lot of you have cabins or live near really good fishing. But I’m looking to explore this year. Plans will have me with Licenses from Florida, Alabama, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois. Probably Iowa and possibly one of the Dakotas or Louisianna. Also have a friend that just moved to Montana that’s pushing us hard to come visit. Never have minded paying in a state that all money goes to the resources.

As many as I visit if I fish or hunt else where. Some years just wi and n Dakota. Some years 4 or 5 different states. I guess they can put the money where ever they need it. If I go Some where and want to fish then I buy a weekend or week or full year license.

I haven’t bought a non-resident license for hunting or angling in a decade.

I’ve been to Florida for guided saltwater fishing but my fee included a temporary license.

I live 10 minutes from Wisconsin and fish the border river all the time. So that license is the first I purchase every year

I buy annuals in the states I fish regularly (MN, WI, MI), but will only buy short term (daily or weekend) licenses for those other places.

Just be glad you’re buying fishing licenses and not hunting licenses.

I bought the following nonresident license this past year:

Wisconsin small game + pheasant stamp: $95
Wisconsin Archery: $160
Wisconsin Firearms Deer: $160
Wisconsin Firearms for my son: $160
Wisconsin Turkey plus extra bonus tag: $75
Wisconsin Turkey for my son: $60
Iowa Small Game 5 day + Habitat Fee: $92
Three, Wisconsin One-Day fishing licenses: $30
Illinois fishing: $31

Total: $863

And Wisconsin nonresident licenses are not as expensive as some other states like Iowa.

For fishing I get a ND every year. I have not bought a WI since my parents sold their cabin out there but used to get one of them every year. Will be getting one for MO this year for the spring trip with Mr. Beads and other cool people that will be join us. I have picked up some other ones when on vacation here and there. I have not bought a WI hunting license for many years.

boone wrote:

Just be glad you’re buying fishing licenses and not hunting licenses.

Great point. You start buying non-resident hunting licenses and it sky rockets quickly. Especially for big game.

Iowa over charges for nonresidents compared to other states around here.

boone wrote:

Just be glad you’re buying fishing licenses and not hunting licenses.

I bought the following nonresident license this past year:

Wisconsin small game + pheasant stamp: $95
Wisconsin Archery: $160
Wisconsin Firearms Deer: $160
Wisconsin Firearms for my son: $160
Wisconsin Turkey plus extra bonus tag: $75
Wisconsin Turkey for my son: $60
Iowa Small Game 5 day + Habitat Fee: $92
Three, Wisconsin One-Day fishing licenses: $30
Illinois fishing: $31

Total: $863

And Wisconsin nonresident licenses are not as expensive as some other states like Iowa.

That looks like a lot of fun for under $1,000. Be thankful you have spots to go. I shoot with a guy that him and his wife will lose that on a couple trips to a casino with bad memories to show for it.

Lately I’ve only bought family fishing licenses in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Used to get an annual Ontario license, but yeah. Haven’t fished the Dakota’s for awhile but need to get back over there. We’ll be fishing Texas next week for the first time ever, looking forward to that.

Wisconsin always takes a lot of money from me, and this year is going to be extra expensive.

Family Fishing with 2 trout stamps: $85

Archery Deer: $160

Rifle Deer: $160

Bear Tag: $251

Turkey: $65

Small Game: $85

Waterfowl stamps: $46

= $851 just to play where I grew up

I’ll be buying my first ever next month in Florida. $30 for a 7 day fresh or salt water, if I go to the salt it will be on a charter so won’t need that one as the charter covers it.

As others have said, be glad it’s fishing and not hunting. The “stick it to the non-residents” has only just started to take hold with fishing and generally there is political pressure from resorts and tourism interests to keep fishing affordable. Not so with hunting, where non-residents are a pest that needs to be discouraged and/or eliminated.

For fishing, I buy MN and WI seasonal and all the trout stamps.

Except for the past 2 summers of the Canadian border shutdown, I have bought a Canadian license for Ontario. And of course, the infamous “Outdoors Card”… Just to make sure they get enough $$$$$ out of the damn tourists.

For all vacation angling, I buy a short-term license. I don’t recall a state that doesn’t offer some sort of short-duration angling license and it certainly helps when you know fishing is going to be limited to a weekend or week-long vacation. And many times the required stamps are included in the short-term license.

I consistently buy WI and Ontario…

I have bought SD, FL, and Manitoba before…..

Man, I need to expand my range!

If you are from Iowa and want to hunt deer or fish in MN then you should pay what your home state charges for nonresident fees. I know IL nonresident fees for big game archery is over $500. Im sure IA is probably more. I also would like to see nonresidents have their own lottery when applying for a bear tag in WI. Waiting 7 yrs to draw a kill permit in WI doesn’t seem right to me.

buck-slayer wrote:

Im sure IA is probably more.

Here’s Iowa, right from the regs. Some of this is non-refundable even if you do not draw a tag in the point-based lottery system. Seems outrageous to me. Would just rather go across the river and hunt in Wisconsin for a lot less and no lottery with likely similar results.

To hunt in Iowa, nonresidents need to purchase a hunting license ($131.00) and a nonresident habitat fee ($15.00). To hunt deer you will also need your tags, sold as an any-sex tag and antlerless tag combination ($498.00). The total for a deer hunting application will be $644.00 plus applicable fees.

To apply for big game out west alot of states require you buy a non resident hunting license:

This year I will be buying an AZ and NM hunting license and unless I draw will never step foot in those states. That is $230.00 just out the door.

I also buy a preference point for IA whitetail for $60.00 and also WY for another $52.00.(I think that is cost).

I also if I tag out quick in MN for Turkey or Deer I will buy a WI license.

Fishing is just ND usually and that is the cheapest one I buy.

Anytime I feel the fishing hobby is getting expensive I’ll go rack up a big bar tab and look at it the next day saying “yup, just as expensive drinking not fishing as it is to be fishing and drinking”.

The numbers work as good as the logic.

I buy an annual Florida Saltwater license as I get down there a couple times a year, mainly surf, some pier fishing. Get an Alabama Pier fishing license as well.

Going to Alabama next week. Looking at NR lic. they charge people from a few S.E. states more than eveyone else, just a few bucks.

For fishing I buy 3 to 4 licenses a year. Last year Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Texas.

Hunting gets more complicated. Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Kansas all require a license just to enter the draw. So there is 4 hunting licenses bought just for draws.
Whitetail and mule deer hunting usually has me buying licenses in South Dakota snd Nebraska. Sprinkle in Minnesota when I am home during the fall. Kansas gets thrown in as well when I draw a tag.

Coyote hunting has me purchasing licenses in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas every year.

My wife has been on me to go somewhere warm in winter. I told her we can go to Arizona and while there I can hunt mule deer and Cous deer in January. That is a fun hunt when it’s cold back home in Minnesota.

We always end up with pretty much all the midwest states plus Ontario and a few more. They are all pretty reasonable. I think South Dakota is the most expensive if I remember right. I think if you fish a lot, you will find that licenses are near the bottom of the list when looking at fishing related expenses

2-5 each year, depending.

I see the $8xx.xx above and had a quick reality check . I won’t post the $$$$, but it stings Colorado- elk, some years a B tag cow tag, small game, fishing plus stamps, wy antelope, doe tags, and fur bearer, Canadian fishing, Ohio fishing, MI fishing, mn fishing in a typical year. Years I have more time add Texas, LA, MO, FL, IN, TN, and Kentucky

Usually 3 non-res state licenses (ND/SD/IA) and Ontario.

You wouldnt need to by the Wisc. Lic if your only fishing border waters…

This year I’ve purchased MN and Wisconsin fishing and Missouri archery. goin to Florida in March and place we rented is on a channel with kayaks so will have to try my luck there. other licenses I’ve had in past are
Wisconsin rifle
Missouri rifle
Missouri turkey
Montana whitetail/mule deer
Wyoming elk
North Dakota waterfowl and pheasant
Manitoba fishing and whitetail
Ontario fishing
All have been pretty reasonable priced I thought except the Missouri turkey just jumped to 265$ I think. Little steep for a turkey but hey why not

Did you hear Montana is doubling their preference point cost?

chappy wrote:

You wouldnt need to by the Wisc. Lic if your only fishing border waters…

If that was directed at me, like I said I’m ten minutes away from WI so borderwaters are not the only waters. But to use certain baits in their waters I do need the wi license.

For me it’s: SD pheasant license, WI fishing license and Great Lakes stamp, and WI turkey license.

I purchase Wisconsin rifle deer and wisconsin fishing along with my Minnesota fishing license. That’s it for non-resident, but it’s enough. I hate how expensive they are, but i wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t worth it.