Filing Easy for Harvest Report

Hunters who have not yet filed their mandatory big game harvest reports can do so quickly and easily on the Internet. Filing on the Idaho Fish and Game Internet web site takes no more than a minute or two, costs nothing and does not require a trip to the post box or regional office. The form is found in the Hunting section of the department web site at www2.state.id.us/fishgame. Filing the report this way also helps avoid the $1.50 fee that will be charged - beginning March 1, 2004 - if the report is not filed until hunters go to a vendor for their new licenses. You may also file by calling 1-877-268-9365. This is a toll-free call. Big game hunters who do file their mandatory hunter harvest reports on time place themselves in the pool to be drawn for a Supertags next year. Those who do not file within 10 days of the end of their hunt or kill date will each have to pay a $1.50 transaction fee when they buy their next hunting licenses. The fee will be imposed because filing at the time of buying a new license is a separate transaction on the Point of Sale Machine (POSM) and, like other transactions on the system, subject to a charge. Timely filing is rewarded by placing hunters' names in the hat for a chance to draw one of 10 Supertags. These deer or elk tags are good for any open hunt in the state, regardless of the elk hunting zone system. Those tags will be drawn early in 2004.