ODFW Eastside incident-Sportspac

Tilla · 11-10-2002, 10:14 AM

A friend of mine decided to go to the Eastside sweat line over a week ago. He spent most the night in his vehicle and in the morning showed up at the window to get on. The ODFW guy looked at his $105.00-get -everything-for-one-price Sports Pac and his HIP reissue and noticed that on the HIP paperwork they had failed to print resident waterfowl. His original license (with federal stamp) had it on it. He was told he could not hunt.
Now, I examined my original 2002 SportsPac and they mention only the HIP 7/01-6/02 for upland and migratory...and nothing else! When I did my HIP I RE BOUGHT the Resident waterfowl (mainly because the guy behind the counter wouldn't print without pushing either the Waterfowl or Upland button and he was unfamiliar with the English language). My new Sports Pac HIP tag shows validation for HIP and only Resident Waterfowl. No mention of Upland. And he collected $9.00 even though there is no price listed!

What this means when you buy a Sports Pac, who has a clue what your getting? Some ODFW don't have a clue either! [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img]

tag-a-long · 11-10-2002, 01:16 PM

I just did get mine, not a cent and it states HIPmigratory/upland as well as the residentof the same. Sounds like someone owes you 9 bucks!!!!!!!!

[ 11-10-2002, 02:17 PM: Message edited by: tag-a-long ]

1pump · 11-10-2002, 11:22 PM

I've been burned too many times by untrained license agents. More than once I had to leave a store pi$$ed off and without my tag because the clerk didn't know what he or she was doing. It's not their fault; the management or the state should make sure they have qualified people running the ODFW computer. The biggest headache is S.I. reservations. I say I need a Sauvie Island reservation and they reply "You mean a parking permit?" No, a controlled hunt application. "Controlled hunts are all closed." (he/she thinks I mean deer, elk, or one of the elusive bighorn sheep that roam the island)

So I patiently explain to this "agent" that they have controlled hunts for waterfowl. The response could be "No they don't" or "Never heard of it." OK, I've only been applying for reservations since 1982 ( before you were born, you bleach blond, pierced-tongue Gen-X twit) so I guess I've been hallucinating for the last 20 years. [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img] Fortunately there's usually a copy of the regs handy so I can point out that ODFW made quite an effort to create controlled hunt numbers for hunts that don't exist. Then I get to train the "agent" on my time on how to find it in the computer.
Makes me start wishing for the old mail-in system.

Tilla · 11-11-2002, 01:46 AM

Tag a long-
The point with my friends tag is that even though it stated on the original Sports Pac that he had resident migratory and resident upland stamps, when he had the HIP done later, they re-issue the license, on the re-issue the upland and migratory HIP is listed but not the resident stamps! The guys would not let him on because the resident waterfowl was not listed!
My original sportspac has no mention of resident anything except the previous years HIP.
The licensed agents and the ODFW at the check in don't know what they are doing. Who's fault is that? :whazzup: