Not buying a license isn't about saving money, it is about trying to send a message. I gladly spend over $300 a year on licenses and drive almost 2,000 miles to fish for steelhead in BC. I get more value out of one trip to BC than I do out of an entire year in Washington. My problem is WDFW doesn't keep fisheries open that should be.

I live 5 minutes from the Stilly and can't even go cutthroat fishing after work in the summer. Why? To protect chinook? Yet they leave the Tulalip Bubble open to keep 2 wild chinook. Clip all the bubble fish and close it for wild chinook retention you morons! Keep the Stilly open for trout and steelhead fishing like it should already be. Then there is the Skagit C&R season.

In the end I will buy a license when it opens because my nephews ask me to go fishing. Spending time with them is far more important to me than giving WDFW the finger. Karma is always out there though just waiting for her opportunity...