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I have a youth hunter (and no he does not have his own smart phone, nor will he anytime soon) and it would be nice to store both of our hunting/fishing profiles and tags on the same app on the same phone. If there is a way to do this it isn’t very clear how. Also, I would like to be able to switch from digital to paper (maybe allow a one time switch back prior to the season starting) to have a better feel for this system. I think a lot of people I talk to would say they don’t trust or want to try this yet. But if switching back was allowed instead of waiting till next year, than more people might give it a shot.

Pay attention to the Login that you’re asked to create for this, so you can Sync your ODFW account with the app system. Seems to work just fine for the most part. You’ll easily create a headache for yourself if you’re not paying attention when asked to create an account. If ones created and you already have an existing odfw account, you’ll most likely end up phoning for help. Always room for improvement, this app needs another walk-through. I dislike the e-tagging feature, but I’ll ask for a hard copy next year since it cannot be changed once you choose, another thing I dislike. If I am spending over $100 for a combo tag +harvest card, I should be able to change my choice from “e-tagging to a physical copy” if I do not like the E-tagging.

Everyone out there that is complaining about this app is the same group that thinks ODFW can do nothing right. I got on this app and verified all my account information by paying attention and reviewing all of the information presented to me entirely. The system was extremely intuitive and I never once ran into an issue. I reported all on all my hunts from last season, purchased my licenses, permits, and tags for this season, used several of the provided links to review the updated regs check my profile information. This app has had some issues at launch and anyone who has a brain can imagine that new software applications NEVER get it right the first time around. To ODFW, GREAT JOB!! You had a mountain to climb here and it was a big one. You hit some boulders on the way up but you appear to have rebounded nicely. I look forward to using this app out in the field this season and I encourage all my fellow hunters to ease up on their state wildlife management systems. These people would lose their jobs if we didn’t have hunting so it makes no sense to think that they are trying to act in a way that would restrict it.

I don’t see how people are having problems with this, unless they just have difficulty following rules and order. I was sure there would be some bugs to fix which was true. My voucher for my bear tag was not on my profile, so I emailed ODFW and within an hour they got me my voucher. This makes it easy to tag your fish. I fish with a lot of people from out of state so I just send them a link and they have their tag before they show up. When I meet my guest in the morning and they don’t have their license they can buy it on the way to the river. Makes my life and my job a lot easier.

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I delayed purchasing my license and permits until ODFW had a few weeks to work out the bugs. This is a typical Oregon rollout (recall the healthcare fiasco and an emergency system that spent millions and didn’t work, being abandoned!with little coverage). I tried to print a tag, put in waterproof map paper, returner to the site and the print page was gone. I went to the recreation profile to reprint and I am blocked because the document was already printed. Also I can’t print my combination license because there isn’t a button to select it. I us three other states systems and I haven’t encountered any issues like Oregon’s. Save your time and wait until they go through several iterations to correct their app.