Fishing 'reely' catches on: Pandemic helps hook more Idaho anglers
The numbers donât lie. More Idahoans and people across the nation decided to take up fishing or return to fishing in huge numbers this past summer. Experts, and at least one study, point to Americans rediscovering the outdoors during the pandemic. In Idaho, fishing license sales generally increase a few thousand each year, but this year more than 41,000 more people bought fishing licenses from January to through October compared with all of 2019 â 2019: 185,812 and 2020: 226,928 (Jan.-Oct. 31). The rush to do more things outdoors did not go unnoticed by the Idaho Department of Fish ...
Source: idahopress.com