HuntFishNY is the official New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mobile app that provides our sportsmen/women a simple way to display their licenses and privileges and view important hunting and fishing related information. In addition to the many resources DEC's website offers for hunters, trappers and anglers across the state, our HuntFishNY mobile app offers instant mobile access to electronic versions of your sporting licenses, privileges and permits; the ease of reporting your game harvests immediately; and links to useful information like season date summaries, fishing information, a DEC Contact list, and much more. It also includes a feature called the Tackle Box that provides anglers with one stop shopping for waterbody-specific information on fishing regulations, stocking, and fishing/boating access sites. Tackle Box is part of DEC’s continued efforts to make fishing easier, more enjoyable and more accessible to all!
HuntFishNY features include:
• Instant, mobile access to a customer's sporting license, privileges and permits
• Quick and easy submission of Game Harvest Reports
• Smart filtering for collecting town, county and WMU of harvest data, as well as season and method of take info
• Ability to view current and past harvest reports
• Links to current year Hunting & Trapping and Freshwater Fishing Regulations Guides
• Sunrise/Sunset Information
• Ability to search waterbodies by name or zooming/panning a NYS map
• Waterbody-specific fishing regulations
• Fish species and stocking information
• Fishing access information, including boat launches and parking areas
• Navigation feature for driving directions to fishing access sites
I’m never quick to make the digital transition to things life but I was optimistic about this one. Turns out my optimism was misguided. This app is very fussy and glitchy when trying to report a harvest. I tried 3 times to report and finally got it on the fourth try, although I’m not sure how. I just kept pressing my finger all over the screen to submit responses. Very frustrating and it’s too bad. The process from what I can see has a lot of promise when it comes to simplifying things. But the glitches and hang-ups are very frustrating.
Useless
Ain't got time tell me a name
This app is seriously the most useless app I’ve had. It hardly ever actually works. Some of the features it says it has, aren’t there. It glitches ALL THE TIME. My biggest issue is trying to switch users between me and my 2 sons. My sons are 12 and 14 and when I registered them at 11, I used my email address and their name. This app is on my phone and won’t allow me to switch between users with the same email address. I rarely delete apps, but I’ve been trying to use this since the beginning, and it’s just not worth the frustration. I have other things in life for that.
Don’t listen to the bad ones.
SvimesDukeofAnkh
I swear all the negative reviews on this must be from people who are technologically challenged or just not very bright in the first place. I’ve literally never had a problem with this app and it’s worked perfectly for me across multiple platforms. it’s got all my licenses and permits on here and it’s really easy to harvest report straight from this app.
Bad Idea
zdubs944
Every app will have glitches and problems. Everyone has had their favorite game glitch out and disappear. This however was a bad idea. NYS is trying to force people to go digital - and do away with back tags. The result will be an increase in poaching, negative interactions between hunters and wildlife officers (due to glitches - which this app has plenty of), and general frustration. Digital ID from a bad app = major L. Do yourself a favor - print your license to PDF and save it on your phone (since that’s how they’re checking) and print a hard copy. This app is a coin toss on if it wants to work. Don’t risk it.
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Version 4.9.0
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Seller
Gordon-Darby, Inc.
Size
176.3 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
