https://www.wired2fish.com/news/stracner-out-at-sabine-elite-series

Fill me in on why you cannot get a fishing license in Texas. Here in Alabama, you just pay the price and you get a license. Mind you out of state on are rather high but I'm sure that is across the board as that goes.

Well, I was wrong.

see below

below are my comments on the debate we had on the guy who got won the $100,000. tournamwent on wright-patman but got disqualified because of a screw-up buying his license on-line....this is probably going to cost Stracner a chance to fish the classic and and possible sponsorship losses...TPWD would not have given him a ticket under the circumstances (or a judge would have thrown out the ticket) and B.A.S.S. should have allowed him to fish....with all the screwups buying licenses going on,BASS and all tournament organizations need to get out of enforcing license purchase....




""I believe there is 7 mentions of people with license/transaction problems on BBC forum thread and couple on here...I know of 3 beside myself who had problems a few years ago here in Georgia....one of the problems in my area is that not many places sell licenses and if you go to wal-mart the sporting goods section may not have anybody on duty to write licenses....that was mentioned by the man who got disqualified and he tried at walmart but then had to try to do his icenses himself with his phone.""..

I believe he got a ticket for no license in South Dakota during a prefishing trip. Apparently some states have a law that if you are ticketed for this you can’t buy a license for one year.

Could be a child support issue in Texas. If you owe back child support and have not been making payments you can get denied. I believe there are other reasons too. Just guesses at this point.

If he has any issue in the state of Texas, could be reasons he is getting denied.

He literally explained why he got denied. He stated he got a ticket for no license in another state. Texas and that state are part of of a group that if you get that said ticket in one you lose license privileges for a year in all.

if he deliberately didn't buy a license in another state,he deserves the multi-state penalty....if it was simple oversight,IMHO the penalty is too severe....and i know there will be those who disagree because they believe failure to zip up your life jacket deserves just as severe penalty as those who are getting fish out of a basket...

So do you think BASS should let him still fish without a license?

Why is it always someone else's fault?

Because no one owns anything any more. It's everyone else's issue.

Forgot to buy a fishing license? That deserves the electric chair or a public stoning.

The schedules are released well in advance for a guy to have plenty of time to look up everything required to be legal in each state. As for as buying a license online I don't understand not checking and double checking that it went through. If in doubt contact that agency to get it corrected and keep the TD in the loop.

If a guy doesn't verify or forgets to buy one then it's on him. 99 other guys figured out a way to get it done.

In this case sounds like it's a state issue and not a BASS issue. No way BASS could knowingly let him fish without a license. I doubt a game warden would let it slide either if he was checked.

I know there are several states that reciprocate that deal. Texas Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma Louisiana Kansas I believe are all in.

Mess around and give up your ability to hunt or fish in 7 states. Be a miserable few years.