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I sat down over the weekend to set up accounts and report for my kids,wife and I. I couldn't get it to work. I'm planning on going to Salem next week to see if they can help me. This new system and tagging deal is a mess.
After reading the mess that ODFW has created, I decided to call the local BiMart store and they advised that they have been having nothing but trouble with the website. It is possible that the people that created this monster were the same one's that created the Cover Oregon fiasco which was never able to even set up a single account!
 
Welcome everyone to the " Middle Finger Fish & Hunt Club" Membership has grown exponentially over the past few years and you too should join now! Membership is absolutly FREE!

If your fed up with the ODFW's mismanagement of OUR fisheries and wildlife, join the club! Fishing & Hunting harvest opportunities have declined every year while the costs of the right to even try keeps going up. Now is your chance to make that statement with your wallet and get their attention!

Membership....Free
Club dues.......Free
Club license....Free
Club tags.......Free

Look on ODFW's Managements face if they received NO revenue from their license, tags, controlled hunts, fee's, penalties, permits, passes, etc. ect. Would be PRICELESS!

Become a proud member of the "Oregon Chapter" of the "Middle Finger Fish & Hunt Club" Join NOW!:D

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They're not getting money for TWO salmon/steelhead/sturgeon/halibut tags this year from this household!

PS: I ask as I thought Oregon a great place to fish/hunt and I 'was' interested in such a trip there. Now not so much....

There's still a couple of pretty good fisheries if you can pony up $200.00-$250.00 per person. That would cover, generally, a guide with a max of six people in the boat. Buoy 10 has a window of opportunity (getting smaller every year I think), where limits can be had with the top guides. GET RESERVATIONS EARLY for these guides/times!There are also larger "Party Boats" that go outside into more open ocean that can be productive. They cost somewhat less. Same thing, reservations

Stay away from up river Columbia, guided salmon/steelhead trips. Unless you consider a $175.00-$250.00 boat ride great, and any fish caught just a bonus. That fishery is a shadow of what it was just 5-6 years ago.

After reading the mess that ODFW has created, I decided to call the local BiMart store and they advised that they have been having nothing but trouble with the website. It is possible that the people that created this monster were the same one's that created the Cover Oregon fiasco which was never able to even set up a single account!

Remember the PDX sewer/water billing software that didn't work? That was some millions in wasted money? The PDX Morrison Bridge that got some high tech plastic surface that didn't live up to the promise? Max Rail that can't run if it's too hot or too cold. Charging all us fishermen an extra $10.00 to help transition the gillnetters to purse seines? I'm sure there's more I've blocked out so I can live a fairly normal daily life.
 
I quit hunting a few years ago got tired of the bullbubblegum. I think hunters should organize a boycott and take a year or two off from hunting & fishing and send them a message


Oregon (and Washington) used to be one of the best fisheries in the country. I knew people that traveled from all around to come here for our Great fishery. A Salmon or a Steelhead (not to mention Sturgeon) available for harvest in the river in any month of the year for the Sportfisherman, Not anymore

Our local Salmon & Steelhead harvest opportunities have been destroyed thanks in part to the lawsuit in 2014 by the "native fish society" and an activist judge. Our hatcheries only release 10% of the smolts into the rivers that they used to, hence only a minuscule number of fish return and are available for harvest for the Sportsfisherman. Right now, 25% of the smolts in the local hatchery are slated to be taken to youngs bay for the commercial net harvest. Then on top of that, sportsfisherman now pay a $10 surcharge to subsidize the gillnetters for your sportfishing privilage to support the gillnetters for not having as many fish to harvest.:mad:

Our fishing license fee's did not drop 90%, only the sportfishermans harvest opportunity did!

Our Big Game Hunting harvest opportunities took a major turn several years back when a ballot measure passed protecting cougars from hunting them with dogs and bear with bait. The population of cougars has skyrocketed and for a couple years straight we found cougar kills of Deer and Elk everywhere in our hunt area. The last few years has become much more difficult to harvest an animal when there just is not as many animals for harvest around. Seeing more bears and cougars than ever before, can't wait for the 1st encounter with the wolf.:mad:

We need to send ODFW the message that we will not fund this BS.

It will take several years for things to get better but nothing will change if we continue to fund thier agenda.

Until ODFW makes changes and allows control of the preditor populations and starts to run OUR hatcheries at full capacity we should NOT support them with our dollars!

And these fees now are not for your "Fishing & Hunting" license, ODFW now calls it your "recreational portfolio" What a Joke!

JOIN THE CLUB:D "Middle finger Fish & Hunt Club"
 
In the 2015-17 budget, ODFW got 192.12 million and 2017-19 budget $234.33 million in revenues from the sales of hunting, angling, licenses the revenue is more than that but this what the department gets. Imagine if half of us didn't participate for a year or two.

Beyond that, on Page 890 they are highering 4 people the bottom two at 204K each with our tax money.

Establish one (1719056) permanent full-time Economist 2 (C1162) position (1.00 FTE). $168,615
Establish one (1719055) permanent full-time Safety Specialist 1 (X1345) position (1.00 FTE). $152,836
Establish two (1719057, 1719058) permanent full-time Operations & Policy Analyst 4 (C0873) positions (2.00 FTE). $409,627




https://www.dfw.state.or.us/agency/budget/docs/17-19_LAB/E_Revenues.pdf
 
App didn't verify for me either. Went in and dumped $175 to hunt another 3 weeks of this duck season and keep a piece of paper in my wallet. What a scam.
 
Beyond that, on Page 890 they are highering 4 people the bottom two at 204K each with our tax money.

Establish one (1719056) permanent full-time Economist 2 (C1162) position (1.00 FTE). $168,615
Establish one (1719055) permanent full-time Safety Specialist 1 (X1345) position (1.00 FTE). $152,836
Establish two (1719057, 1719058) permanent full-time Operations & Policy Analyst 4 (C0873) positions (2.00 FTE). $409,627

That ought to get more fish in the rivers and lakes, and help to open up access that has been closed off in the last 10 years! o_O
 
Renewed my license and tags yesterday. Everything went smoothly.

Did mine on Tuesday without issue.

Here's something I find funny. You can go to your portfolio and print your tag. Well it's done on printer paper obviously. A guy that wasnt an honest individual could print a couple copies of his tag and stash them in his rig.
Shoots a deer, fills out his tag and heads home. If he doesn't get checked in the process, head back out with another tag.... and so on and so forth.
This new system has a lot of issues that will need to be solved.
 
Oregon (and Washington) used to be one of the best fisheries in the country. I knew people that traveled from all around to come here for our Great fishery. A Salmon or a Steelhead (not to mention Sturgeon) available for harvest in the river in any month of the year for the Sportfisherman, Not anymore

Our local Salmon & Steelhead harvest opportunities have been destroyed thanks in part to the lawsuit in 2014 by the "native fish society" and an activist judge. Our hatcheries only release 10% of the smolts into the rivers that they used to, hence only a minuscule number of fish return and are available for harvest for the Sportsfisherman. Right now, 25% of the smolts in the local hatchery are slated to be taken to youngs bay for the commercial net harvest. Then on top of that, sportsfisherman now pay a $10 surcharge to subsidize the gillnetters for your sportfishing privilage to support the gillnetters for not having as many fish to harvest.:mad:

Our fishing license fee's did not drop 90%, only the sportfishermans harvest opportunity did!

Our Big Game Hunting harvest opportunities took a major turn several years back when a ballot measure passed protecting cougars from hunting them with dogs and bear with bait. The population of cougars has skyrocketed and for a couple years straight we found cougar kills of Deer and Elk everywhere in our hunt area. The last few years has become much more difficult to harvest an animal when there just is not as many animals for harvest around. Seeing more bears and cougars than ever before, can't wait for the 1st encounter with the wolf.:mad:

We need to send ODFW the message that we will not fund this BS.

It will take several years for things to get better but nothing will change if we continue to fund thier agenda.

Until ODFW makes changes and allows control of the preditor populations and starts to run OUR hatcheries at full capacity we should NOT support them with our dollars!

And these fees now are not for your "Fishing & Hunting" license, ODFW now calls it your "recreational portfolio" What a Joke!

JOIN THE CLUB:D "Middle finger Fish & Hunt Club"
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Got my 2019 hunting and fishing license at bi Mart yesterday. Went fairly smoothly I guess until they handed it to me on a piece of copy paper and it shows that my buck deer controlled hunt tag last year ran from August one of 2018 until the end of December 2019.

Showed my controlled hunt elk tag ran from August one until the end of March 2019.
 
Got my 2019 hunting and fishing license at bi Mart yesterday. Went fairly smoothly I guess until they handed it to me on a piece of copy paper and it shows that my buck deer controlled hunt tag last year ran from August one of 2018 until the end of December 2019.

Showed my controlled hunt elk tag ran from August one until the end of March 2019.

Guess it's still hunting season for you then! :D
 
In the 2015-17 budget, ODFW got 192.12 million and 2017-19 budget $234.33 million in revenues from the sales of hunting, angling, licenses the revenue is more than that but this what the department gets.

I wonder how much that increase in revenue was due to ODFW adding those "premium" tag options at $8 or so per application, and raising the tag application fees.
 
Got my 2019 hunting and fishing license at bi Mart yesterday. Went fairly smoothly I guess until they handed it to me on a piece of copy paper and it shows that my buck deer controlled hunt tag last year ran from August one of 2018 until the end of December 2019.

Showed my controlled hunt elk tag ran from August one until the end of March 2019.

I found it strange in reporting tag results, ODFW online didn't have any of the specific tag information like hunt area, etc. That should be basic stuff associated with a user's online account.
 

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