Bucket List Item: catch a fish in all 50 States

[Devan S.]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Just looking at base license, I paid $15 for one day in OK. Most other were about $10 per day (typically for 3 day license) or less for longer time periods. Delaware is the cheapest. Nonresident casts $20 for a year or $0.055 per day. That covers saltwater and freshwater fishing. Our 7 day FL freshwater and saltwater license cost close to $65 for each of us.

As I recall CA, OR, WA was along the $20/day and Pyramid Lake in NV was like $25/day.

[luckycraft]

https://hookedinfishing.com/fishing-license-cost-by-state/

 

Here is a list of prices.   Looks like California is the most expensive, however they don’t segregate salt and freshwater licenses.  
 

I have only covered 8 states.    Fished in 3 Canadian Provences as well.   

[fishinwrench]

What is is with California?   🤷‍♂️ 

People I've met from there seem like a totally different breed.   🤔

[FishnDave]

Not a goal of mine.  Been to a fair few places (at least 25 states and 21 countries), but haven't fished in most of them.  I try to camouflage my fishing addiction during family vacations.  

I've only fished (and caught fish) in the states of Hawaii, Florida, Ohio,  Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas!

Also Mexico (Cabo), Ontario, Puerto Rico, Aruba, and Costa Rica.

We have travel plans lined up for this year to go to Alaska and Antarctica...may salmon-fish off BC during the Alaska trip.

[bfishn]

11 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

What is is with California?   🤷‍♂️ 

People I've met from there seem like a totally different breed.   🤔

To be fair, I imagine those folks felt the same way about you... 😆

Awhile back I was in the checkout line at the grocery store behind some 'just-moved-here-from Californians' who were obviously perturbed that the lady in front of them was discussing the weather with the clerk. I interrupted them with;

"You... just... have... to... get... used... to... things... taking... a... little... longer... here."

[snagged in outlet 3]

44 minutes ago, bfishn said:

To be fair, I imagine those folks felt the same way about you... 😆

Awhile back I was in the checkout line at the grocery store behind some 'just-moved-here-from Californians' who were obviously perturbed that the lady in front of them was discussing the weather with the clerk. I interrupted them with;

"You... just... have... to... get... used... to... things... taking... a... little... longer... here."

And gets slower the farther south you go 😂

[Flysmallie]

12 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

People I've met from there seem like a totally different breed.   🤔

I know a bunch of them that still live there. Seem perfectly normal to me. Maybe only the idiots are leaving. 

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, bfishn said:

To be fair, I imagine those folks felt the same way about you... 😆

The main difference being that I'm not the one showing up in their back yard. 🤔 

You should have seen them after the first few Winter storm events, trying to navigate these hilly lake roads. Dressed in tights and sandals with no jacket in the car..... Totally perplexed and pissed because they couldn't get out to go shopping.   And not even a "Thanks" for the ones rescuing them.  🙄 

As if was OUR fault!   

 

They tend to buy property and migrate here during August/September each year, and come the following summer they'll STILL have California plates on their cars.   Otherwise you'd just assume they were brainless crackheads with lots of money.  😅 

Word on the street is that some end up here via the Witness Protection program.  😳 "Two years ago Dad was a bus driver who witnessed a murder.....and TODAY the whole family are millionaires".  That type of thing.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

Seem perfectly normal to me.

Why am I not surprised? 😅

[Johnsfolly]

I have to say that it is much easier to hit a bunch of states here in the east. I can fish in five different states within a three hour and eight within a four hour one-way drive. The last three years I have caught fish in 9, 11, and 14 states. It also helps that I can piggyback some fishing onto my business travel that has picked up over the last couple of years.