I'm also with Seconcurve and Pineneedles.
A $35 or $53 dollar license can give you countless hours of enjoyment and if you are any good (or lucky) put several nice meals on the table.
My wife and I will easily drop $50 or more dollars spending an hour having a good meal. I'll run $50+ a day just in fuel for the both of us to spend a day snowmobiling. And taking the cruiser out to the Isles of Shoals and back with a little coastal site seeing can easily set me back $100 a day in gas.
It's all in your perspective, I guess.
On another note I see that in almost all cases that the CO was professional and courteous in his duties. That is a reflection on the excellent leadership at Fish & Game, including a good friend of mine, Major Tim Acerno in Law Enforcement.
I also get to work every snowmobile season with a variety of local COs at the Youth Snowmobile Safety Classes I teach. I have great respect and deep appreciation for the jobs these greatly outnumbered professionals do.
I could go on and on, but my opinion is slanted due to the fact that I have gotten to spend so much time working with many individuals within this excellent Department.
I think that the hunting, fishing and trapping opportunities that this State offers easily justifies the costs incurred by both in and out-of-state sportsmen....
