Every price Arizona Game and Fish Department prints, when the licence stops working, the age it is first needed, the days it is lifted and the stamps that ride on top of it.
Arizona runs a full year from the day it is bought, so a licence bought on the first of December is worth a full year. It stops on 365 days later. The ordinary resident annual licence is $37, sold as General fishing license. The same purchase on the same day buys about 13 months in Pennsylvania and about 4 weeks in West Virginia.
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Read September 23, 2026.
Arizona runs a full year from the day it is bought, which means the month a licence is bought in makes no difference at all. The same purchase on the same morning is worth 395 days in Pennsylvania and 30 in West Virginia, a spread of 365 days across the country for what is often the same twenty five dollars.
365 days
What an annual licence bought on 1 December 2026 still has in it, which is a full year.
Drawn against 395 days, the longest in the country.
An Arizona fishing licence runs a full year from the day it is bought, so the month you buy it in makes no difference to how much of it you get.
All licenses are valid 365 days from the date of purchase.Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
A state rarely sells one licence. Arizona Game and Fish Department prices 7 of them, and the duration beside each is the half that decides what the money is actually worth: a short term licence at a third of the annual price is the better buy for a weekend in almost every state in the country, and in 10 states it is the better buy in December for a lot longer than a weekend.
Each price below carries the line it was printed in. Several agencies print a base fee and charge a larger one at the counter once an issuing or transaction fee is added, so the quoted line is the thing to read rather than the number alone.
$37
General fishing license. Check the Arizona Fishing Regulations below for additional information. Resident: $37. Non-resident: $55.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$55
General fishing license. Check the Arizona Fishing Regulations below for additional information. Resident: $37. Non-resident: $55.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$15 per day
Short-term combo hunt & fish license. Resident: $15 per day. Non-resident: $20 per day.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$20 per day
Short-term combo hunt & fish license. Resident: $15 per day. Non-resident: $20 per day.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$5
Youth combo hunt & fish license. Resident: $5. Non-resident: $5.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$57
Combo hunt and fish license. Resident: $57. Non-resident: $160.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
$160
Combo hunt and fish license. Resident: $57. Non-resident: $160.Licenses and Regulations, Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
29 states set the threshold at 16 and the youngest in the country is 9, so this is a number worth checking rather than carrying across a state line. The agency’s own sentence usually carries a condition the number alone does not: who a child has to be with, whose limit their fish count against, and whether the age is measured on the day or across the licence year.
In Arizona a licence is needed from 10. The commonest threshold in the country is 16, so Arizona is not one of the ordinary ones here. There is a senior rate from 70.
A valid Arizona fishing license is required for Arizona resident and non-resident anglers 10 years of age or older fishing any public accessible water in Arizona. Youth under the age of 10 and blind residents do not need to purchase a state fishing license to fish in Arizona.Arizona Game and Fish Department, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
8 states are in the same position: Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada and South Carolina. The other 42 publish 62 days between them, usually a Saturday in June tied to National Fishing and Boating Week, and those are on the hub with the sentence each was read from.
Arizona runs a full year from the day it is bought. Across the country 19 states run a full year from the day of purchase, 16 run to a fixed date on their own calendar, 10 run the calendar year, one sells the same licence on two clocks, and 4 publish no rule at all.
On price, the national middle is $25.00, with Hawaii at $5 at one end and California at $64.54 at the other. A visitor pays anywhere from 1.25 times the resident price in Massachusetts to 5.71 times in Arkansas.
Arizona Game and Fish Department read September 23, 2026, with every price, rule, day and stamp above linked to the page it came from. Fees change by legislation and by rule, usually with effect from the start of a licence year, and the agency page is what governs on the day.