Thread: Fishing license stored on smart phone, legal or not.

Good question. I will get you an answer.

I sent this question to a Captain in the Enforcement Division to see what he thinks. This is an interesting question and shows you the direction things are going (digital). A thought on this though, what if you messed up your phone or the battery dies? I personally am not very good with phones. I have broke several and droped a couple more in lakes. It is still a good question. Hopefully the Wildlife Officer (Captain) will get back to me in the next couple of days.

Just make sure you have a printer with you so you can print a hard copy

You can get your hunter ed and boaters ed on your phone.

It is no different than having a boarding pass, store coupon, baggage claim, hotel reservation, groupon for a restaurant, or hockey tickets on your phone. All things I have personally used my phone for. Hard copies are fine, but what if I forget my wallet (same chance as breaking my phone) or since I buy all of my license online, I don't have the nice waxy carry thing to keep in my wallet, and since I have to keep 8.11 sheets of paper in a plastic bag... what if I'm in someone else's boat by chance?

Nothing is as good as having he actual license. The question was more in the nature of "if I do get asked and if my phone is all I have access" to, will that suffice as proof. Actual proof could be verified on the dept of conservation web site or mailed to the proper dept as needed.

Not trying to argue the law.

I say it should be good... license number should be visable and that's all they need to get on the horn and verify it !!

I thought you had to Sign your license. How ya gonna do that on a phone?

Sign and scan, create pdf, email to self, open email with phone, save pdf file to phone's memory.