Idaho NR general tag going to draw?

[bergie]

https://idfg.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/5-d-non-resident_idfg_goldsheet_jan_comm_nrtiag_rec.pdf

Looks like a draw is coming for non residents in Idaho for general season tags.

Hooray?
wtf?

 

[bergie]

Woah the more I read the more is in there. They may also reduce NR tags to 10% and recoup the costs by raising prices.

 

[Flyjunky]

For the most part I like it.

 

[Grundy53]

For the most part I like it.

Same. It's already random. It would be nice to be able to put in as a group.

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[Fever Buck]

Woah the more I read the more is in there. They may also reduce NR tags to 10% and recoup the costs by raising prices.

What was the prior allocation? Looking online and it looks like it was already 10%.

 

[idelkslayer]

What was the prior allocation? Looking online and it looks like it was already 10%.

It has always been 10% for controlled hunts but the OTC seasons allowed between 15- 25%.

 

[svivian]

Thats going to be a bummer

 

[huntsd]

as a non resident I like it. The online process doesnt work right now. Its BS that if you know a local they can go into a shop and "cut the line".

 

[tdhanses]

This might actually make me start building pts in ID.

 

[bergie]

This might actually make me start building pts in ID.

This is just changing the Dec 10 cluster that so many people complain about. Points system was shot down from what I can tell. I think Idaho is smart enough to avoid that rabbit hole anyway and the comments they received echoed that.

 

[Fever Buck]

It has always been 10% for controlled hunts but the OTC seasons allowed between 15- 25%.

Thanks. As a CO resident I bet Idaho folks are pumped about that. Glad Idaho is taking care of their own.

 

[Customweld]

Thanks. As a CO resident I bet Idaho folks are pumped about that. Glad Idaho is taking care of their own.

Some might be. Less NR tags offered means less turned back in to be purchased as 2nd tags for residents. I'm curious to see how that plays out.

 

[tdhanses]

This is just changing the Dec 10 cluster that so many people complain about. Points system was shot down from what I can tell. I think Idaho is smart enough to avoid that rabbit hole anyway and the comments they received echoed that.

So it’ll be a random draw?

 

[bergie]

So it’ll be a random draw?

Not set yet, but in the document linked above the entire group voted that way. Now its up to the commission at their next meeting.

 

[idelkslayer]

There was not recommendation to reduce NR general tags to 10%. There was discussion about it and ultimately the committee recommended that the commission survey resident hunters to gauge willingness to pay more in exchange for a reduction in NR allocation.

I would love to have fewer hunters in my neck of the woods whether they're resident or NR but I don't think the sky is falling like some seem to. For now I am satisfied with the unit quotas that more evenly distributed the NR hunting pressure.

Thanks. As a CO resident I bet Idaho folks are pumped about that. Glad Idaho is taking care of their own.

 

[CarterHunt]

Seems like at the very least this will result in LOTS more license sales for IDFG. Currently, the tens of thousands of people who go into the queue but don't get a tag in their cart aren't buying a license.

 

[LFC911]

This statement on pg 13 concerns me, "Total outfitter tag allocation cannot exceed a percentage as determined by the Commission of any given non-resident quota capped elk zone." Does this mean an outfitter can purchase/claim all the tags for a given unit (prior to the draw) or is their name in the hat next to all the NR's trying to get a tag in that unit?

 

[Customweld]

This statement on pg 13 concerns me, "Total outfitter tag allocation cannot exceed a percentage as determined by the Commission of any given non-resident quota capped elk zone." Does this mean an outfitter can purchase/claim all the tags for a given unit (prior to the draw) or is their name in the hat next to all the NR's trying to get a tag in that unit?

This is how I read that.
For example: elk zone b has 40 NR tags. Say the commission sets the percentage at 10 percent, so the outfitter allocation can't exceed 4 tags in that zone.

 

[LFC911]

This is how I read that.
For example: elk zone b has 40 NR tags. Say the commission sets the percentage at 10 percent, so the outfitter allocation can't exceed 4 tags in that zone.

I'm assuming the outfitter gets preference over NR's?!? Are the NR's that put in for that unit drawing dead if the outfitter is applying for the same unit? Just curious.

 

[CorbLand]

This is just changing the Dec 10 cluster that so many people complain about. Points system was shot down from what I can tell. I think Idaho is smart enough to avoid that rabbit hole anyway and the comments they received echoed that.

Just wait. You got to give it a few years of people thinking and then realizing that taking it to a draw didn’t help. Then they will start to push for point systems.