On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:37:55 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Check your state's licensing agency for raises in your resident
license for the comping year.

They passed a raise, VERY QUIETLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, for CT -
it's now $40/yr - up from twenty which was too high.

Seems high for a resident. Seniors need a license?
BTW, I just paid 47 x 2 for non-resident annual Florida sal****er.
$51 each because I ended up using the phone to the FWC.
They gave me codes to write down in case a game warden asked, and sent
the actual licenses to my home in Illinois.
Sal****er licenses are relatively new in Florida.
Was used to getting them in any bait shop in Illinois/Wisconsin, but
it looks like mostly Walmart is where you get them in Florida.
Other thing is Illinois/Wisconsin always had 3-day, 7-day, 14-day,
monthly, priced right for vacationers.
Florida has a 3-day for $17, a 7-day for $30, then jumps to the
annual. I was there a bit over 14 days.
We're on the way to fish the Crystal river, stop in a bait shop for
shrimp and licenses, and got the shrimp and the FWC number only.
Girl said they sell licenses in Homosassa Walmart, so I detour over
there. About 4 miles. But I don't like cell phones much.
The guy in the Walmart sports section says he sells licenses.
Turns on the computer behind his desk, hems and haws a bit,
slaps the side of the monitor, looks at me and says, "This could take
a while."
I got the folks sitting out in the car and it's getting hot, and I'm
ready to fish. I don't mind waiting a few minutes.
"How long? I ask.
He looks chagrined, and says, "About an hour."
WTF?
"Bye" I says and we book out of there fast. Used the cell phone when
we got to the river fishing pier.
Got totally skunked with nary a nibble.
Then I left my camera on the car.
I love fishing!

--Vic