12-05-2011, 09:40 PM
Just a couple of points. First this isn't the first year that kids 12 and 13 had to have a license to fish. That law was passed at the same time as the exemption. The exemption was the only way they could get the public to buy in for the new license fee. The upside is that the state gets $7.5 from the federal government for each of the $5 licenses they sell. Also the little contact I have had in the youth fishing groups the DWR puts on with different cities have said the exemptions were only for kids 12 and 13. I would be very cautious about taking anyone over 13.
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