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Originally Posted by garlien
I think the registration is only if you are in the Potomac or other potentially "Maryland" waters not covered by the standard license.....
I pay the boat fee, the fresh water fee, the stamp fee, this fee, that fee, the other fee and still there are people gettting away with murdering thousands of pounds of stripers this year...Can somebody please tell me what these fees are going to ?
Perfect example: Wife lost front tag of truck, rookie state trooper gives her a ticket for $70.00...Help me understand how that ticket is keeping anyone safe...
Help me understand why I have all my safety supllies ready every year and I get pulled over a least a half a dozen times by the same DNR cops ? I can't tell you how many people I saw without proper equipment last year alone and somehow they are getting away with it ?
Even more...Why does the governors name have to be on everything ? It gets changed every few years anyway ? Crossing the bridge the other day and it says William Preston...Governor O'malley....No **** sherlock I live here I know who the govenor is....Why do I need to know who the govenor is while I am crossing a bridge anyway ? What safety does that provide ?
I need to get the boat in the water so I can complain about not catching fish and not all this crap...At least, on the boat, out on the water, it is relaxing (at least when I am not getting bothered by the DNR cops)......
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Seriously....I just want to fish. Let's see what the government gets from me so I can fish on my boat this year:
Fishing license: $42.50 (tidal, non tidal, trout stamp and crabbing)
Boat registration: $12 ($24 actually, but in fairness that's for 2 years)
Trailer registration: $20.50 ($51 for 2 years)
Gas tax: $28.20 (tax= 23.5 cents of every gallon and my little boat uses about 10 tanks of fuel, it's a 12 gallon tank)
I can't even realistically quantify the sales tax on 2 cycle oil, lures, ramp fees and obscene bridge tolls (Good grief...$9 to tow my little 15' boat across the bridge!)
$103.20 before adding in all of the extras from sales tax, tolls and incidentals.
For the pleasure of fishing, the state annually taxes me over $100.
Now I'm not really complaining about that too much; I know a lot of you fellas have it WAY worse than me, and I know a lot of the money we spend gets put back into things we use like boats ramps, etc.
It IS frustrating though to know that I play by the rules every year (as witnessed by this thread; we ALL are trying to play by the rules andfigure out this registration thing) and the financial burden always falls upon us while so many others simply ignore the laws, avoid paying for licenses and keep illegal fish. And while the state is pissing away so much money on trivial things.