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The 2025-26 license year has started!

This season’s hunting and fishing licenses
are for sale online, at dealers, and by phone

If you’re a hunter or angler daydreaming about your next big season, you can take that next step now by getting your 2025 license year products.

Those products include hunting and fishing licenses, as well as special hunt applications for this upcoming season.

Items for the 2025 license year are valid from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026. The previous license year's products expired March 31. 

Some of the options

If you’re planning a busy year on the water, you can take advantage of license combos like the Fish Washington and annual combination packages.

The Fish Washington package for state residents includes annual freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, and shellfish and seaweed licenses, as well as the Puget Sound Dungeness crab and two-pole endorsements.

If hunting is your focus, there are options that combine deer, elk, bear, cougar, and small game licenses in different ways to suit your needs.

And if you’re covering the water and the field, the Get Outdoors license package is state residents' one-stop shop for fishing and hunting that gets you ready for anything — and does it at a savings.

The Get Outdoors package features everything in the Fish Washington package plus deer, elk, bear, cougar and small game licenses, a migratory bird permit, a migratory bird hunt authorization, two turkey tags, and bear and cougar tags.

Additionally, the Discover Pass is always for sale and provides vehicle access to millions of acres of Washington state parks and recreation lands. Discover Passes are valid for at least a year, from their date of purchase through the end of the same month the following year.

Pricing and purchasing

You can buy your 2025-26 hunting and angling license products today by visiting myWDFW.org, calling 360-902-2464, or going to a license dealer near you. Go to wdfw.wa.gov/licenses/dealers to find your nearest license dealer.

Note: This is an excellent time to make sure you have an active and accurate email address in your WILD account. You can check and edit your listed email address by clicking the "Your Profile" link found on your WILD account homepage. If your email address needs to be updated, simply click "Edit" near your email address on your profile page.

New this year: A 2.9% fee will apply to credit and debit card purchases made through WDFW over the phone or when ordering online through the licensing system. Customers can avoid this fee by buying licensing products from WDFW in person or by purchasing through a license dealer that does not charge a credit card processing fee. Please note that license vendors may charge their own credit card or other processing fees.

Help prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease

As you plan your hunts for this year, please take into consideration that WDFW has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in our state. That means there are new rules related to preventing the spread of the disease. There is extensive information on CWD on the WDFW website, including how the disease spreads, how to have animals tested for it, what areas have mandatory testing, what parts of harvested animals can be transported, and much more. We appreciate your help to prevent the spread of this potentially devastating wildlife disease.

We here at WDFW hope you had great luck in the field and on the water in 2024 and wish you more of the same in 2025!