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MN guys don't forget..... #8353238
02/26/25 10:15 PM
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160user Offline OP
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We need new fishing licenses at the end of the week. I sure wish the trapping licenses expired July 1st rather than mid-season too.


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353245
02/26/25 10:20 PM
02/26/25 10:20 PM
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They will sell you a new trapping license even though they haven’t set seasons or limits ! Something is terrible wrong with that !

Then you have to go back to get Coupons for the tagged species.


It’s a lazy man who can’t find his wife a second job !
Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353247
02/26/25 10:22 PM
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Here I thought maybe you were going to say don't forget Trappers Day at the capitol is March 5th.

Sure could use a big turn out


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353249
02/26/25 10:24 PM
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And most places struggle with giving you tags if you didn't just buy your license. This is low hanging fruit for a trapping association to change. There is no reason the licenses can't expire outside the regular trapping season. July 1 makes sense.


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353257
02/26/25 10:30 PM
02/26/25 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by 160user
And most places struggle with giving you tags if you didn't just buy your license. This is low hanging fruit for a trapping association to change. There is no reason the licenses can't expire outside the regular trapping season. July 1 makes sense.

Correct


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353264
02/26/25 10:37 PM
02/26/25 10:37 PM
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MN sucks!!!!


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353265
02/26/25 10:37 PM
02/26/25 10:37 PM
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I know a reputable trapper who bought his license and couldn’t get tags. Come the following fall he catches an Otter while doing Beaver control. No problem as the season is open ! But he never got his Site Validation Coupons !

Reputable guy that has permission by local Warden to move incidental prior to contact. So he brings the Otter home and bright and early the next morning goes to Sporting Goods store where he bought license earlier when Coupons weren’t available. Requests his Coupons and validates the previous day being an honest law abiding trapper.

Jump ahead to registration day ! You couldn’t have legally caught an Otter because our records show you received your tags the day after your Validation date !

You good for nothing Poacher ! Otter is confiscated and the trapper loses sleep for the next month !
Thankfully the trapper had a stellar reputation in his County. They refused to prosecute him because of the circumstances.

Something needs changed !


It’s a lazy man who can’t find his wife a second job !
Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 2poor] #8353273
02/26/25 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by 2poor


Something needs changed !


I agree but nothing will.


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 2poor] #8353276
02/26/25 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 2poor
I know a reputable trapper who bought his license and couldn’t get tags. Come the following fall he catches an Otter while doing Beaver control. No problem as the season is open ! But he never got his Site Validation Coupons !

Reputable guy that has permission by local Warden to move incidental prior to contact. So he brings the Otter home and bright and early the next morning goes to Sporting Goods store where he bought license earlier when Coupons weren’t available. Requests his Coupons and validates the previous day being an honest law abiding trapper.

Jump ahead to registration day ! You couldn’t have legally caught an Otter because our records show you received your tags the day after your Validation date !

You good for nothing Poacher ! Otter is confiscated and the trapper loses sleep for the next month !
Thankfully the trapper had a stellar reputation in his County. They refused to prosecute him because of the circumstances.

Something needs changed !

Georgia law is once a child turns 16 they have to get a license. We always went turkey hunting for my son’s birthday. So, the day before his 16th birthday I’m trying to buy him a license online but can’t because he’s still 15. I call DNR and explain that we’ll be camping/hunting in an area with no cell coverage and I need to purchase his license the day before we leave. They tell me that I can either drive to where I can find coverage after midnight or go the next morning and find a place that sells a license before he can hunt/harvest a bird.
Needless to say he got his bird and “tagged” it later that evening when we went into town to get a celebratory birthday/kill dinner, lol.

Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353563
02/27/25 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by 160user
And most places struggle with giving you tags if you didn't just buy your license. This is low hanging fruit for a trapping association to change. There is no reason the licenses can't expire outside the regular trapping season. July 1 makes sense.

Agree.


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353614
02/27/25 12:12 PM
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They also need to use ink that doesn't fade after a short while!


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353623
02/27/25 12:22 PM
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You old guys would forget to buy your fishing license July 1st if we changed it.

How the heck do you guys remember to pay your the taxes May 15th and Oct 15? Pay your insurance bill? Wipe your butt in the morning?

If they roll out their app, things are going to look quite a bit different this fall. Whether it's good or bad will remain to be seen


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: Steven 49er] #8353647
02/27/25 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Steven 49er
You old guys would forget to buy your fishing license July 1st if we changed it.

How the heck do you guys remember to Wipe your butt in the morning?



I have found a post it not next to the throne is helpful.


The July 1st suggestion was for trapping season. Before I set traps in the Fall I know I need a new license that lasts through the whole season, not expire in the middle of it.

Last edited by 160user; 02/27/25 12:40 PM.

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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353651
02/27/25 12:50 PM
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I can see BIG problems up in our area with the phone Lic coming TOO MANY dead spots for phone's.We talked about this up coming problem last year at fur registration,with deer hunters trying to vaulate their tag and marten and fishers as well.If they don't offer both choices it will make honest sportsmen and ladies outlaws which is not their fault if there isn't service in those areas.....Something they really have to look into......

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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353704
02/27/25 01:57 PM
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Rick, I'm taking a wait and see attitude.

Rob, I guess to me it's not worth spending political Capital

My pickup license expires the end of February, if I don't get a renew it. It's my fault. My snowmobile license expires June 1st. Now who's thinking about a snowmobile June 1st?

The trapping license renewal has been the 1st of March. The 55 years I've been on this planet. If it isn't second nature by now to buy a new license, it's never going to be


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: Steven 49er] #8353726
02/27/25 02:19 PM
02/27/25 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Steven 49er
My snowmobile license expires June 1st. Now who's thinking about a snowmobile June 1st?


That was exactly my point. It expires when you are not using it, not in the middle of snowmobile season.


Originally Posted by Steven 49er
If it isn't second nature by now to buy a new license, it's never going to be


Thanks for the support.


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Re: MN guys don't forget..... [Re: 160user] #8353777
02/27/25 04:11 PM
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thanks for the reminder 160


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