The 2015 Ontario Fishing Regulations have been released by the MNR

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(01-09-2015 06:04 PM)Eli Wrote:  Am I the only one disappointed with the lame-ass design (lack thereof) of the 2015 outdoor card?...and the random $2 fee that they decided to tack on to license renewal.
Ontario is insane. No other province, territory, or state that I've fished in requires you to have an outdoor card and a separate ticket thing which passes as your license.

The new non-decorative cards have been in place since the new system was set up through the American company (the same system that issues licenses as yellow slips instead of stickers), so it's been a couple of years already. Guess this is the first time since then you've had to renew.

Personally I don't understand why going to the new system means abolishing the pictures on the cards. After all the card design is still customized for Ontario.

But you're definitely not the only one, people have been complaining about the new cards eagerly since they were implemented. Personally I don't care what the card looks like since it lives in my wallet, not in a frame on the mantle... there are other things I don't like about the new system, like the paper slips instead of stickers (not an issue if you renew your fishing/small game license for 3 years with your outdoors card renewal).

The other day I had to phone in an address change for an outdoors card. You used to be able to do this online with your drivers license and health card address update, but now with the new system you can only do it by phone for the outdoors card. So I called and I had to sit on the phone listening to a long recording explaining and justifying the $2 fee, even though I wasn't even calling to do anything that would require the fee. So those wasted minutes listening to that rant are my top complaint with both the new system and the fee.