Love to fish, like to yak

New guy intro. I had a wild idea a while back and no idea if it'll work but I like to try wild ideas. Registering my kayak for commercial fishing and getting my commercial license this month. I popped in here to see if anyone else is doing the same. Will be in the Monterey bay chasing rockfish and California halibut mostly. Don't worry I'm in it for the write offs, not the money. I have a full time job and would be lucky to go out a few times a month.

I going to be doing the same here in next few weeks.  I'm just going to start out selling directly to the consumer to avoid the extra permits.  If you sale to restaurants it's another permit.  If you plan to sell filets to restaurants then it's an additional permit.
Have you registered your kayak with DMV yet?

I did register with DMV. I upgraded from my old no name kayak to a pro angler knowing I would do this and be able to write it off so I had the dealer fill out their part on the DMV boat form. Made it real easy other than the $80 to register a kayak I otherwise wouldn't have to. But at least now I can put on a sail kit or cheat even worse and put a trolling motor on it. Although that pretty much defeats the purpose of using a kayak to begin with. But it's nice to have options.

Welcome!

Meathunter had a commercial license for his yak a few years ago...might want to drop him a PM if you have questions about how it went for him...

He's not super active online these days but I still see him out on the water.

 

Sincerely,

Jim

If you happen to see meat hunter around, ask him to pretty please check in. I sent a PM but it looks like he hasn't been active since 2014.

welcome!

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Good Luck , hope its productive