So I bought my Hunting and Fishing License today and printed off the map today and saw this at top of it. Just letting others know about it. Got to go check in before hunt at a kiosk or checking station and get a daily permit for each day.

Bye bye Skyline, I won’t. be hunting you anymore

Mehh..I ain't wastin my time there no more

What a bunch of horse $hit, two permits. One of which ya gotta take time to get each day , STUPID! Chuck and Co. gonna rules, regs and license themselves out of business.

So can you not just grab a handful of self serve permits at the kiosk and fill them out as needed? Or am I missing something?

Bankhead zone b did that crap on deer hunts. It was so aggravating. Wake up 1hr extra early just to drive 40 extra miles just to get another permit. Waist of gas, money, time, sleep, danger of driving extra for what? So they can see how many hunters are coming? Its bad enough driving your deer way out of the way to check it in. Especially in the HEAT!!!!

Yeah crazy but they do have about 15 kiosk locations scattered around skyline wma. At least they put out more than one.

Is this for all game?

If Chucky gonna do stupid $hit like this he should be smart about it . Should be able to do it on yer smart phone or by using a call in number. He's increasing the carbon footprint having folks drive all over creation to get a stupid daily permit . AOC gonna get him!

Chuck recently said in an interview. The Wmas are under utilized. He said we need more hunters. Then they do crap like this.

Been having to do it forever in Mississippi. This year they went to a phone app for check-in.

This is by far the most hilarious thing I have read on this forum ever. I dont think this one can be beat. Obviously Chuck has never been hunting at a WMA in North Alabama. I cant fathom there being more hunters than there are that currently use them.

Took a glance. They got kiosks everywhere, it appears.
It is an aggravation. But shouldn’t be a Deal killer. And, yes,
Chucky needs to be made to hunt opening day at Skyline, maybe all season.

I haven't deer hunted on Skyline WMA since the mid 80's. That being said, I'd be shocked if the hunter to acreage ratio is higher now than in the 70's when there was only the Hytop area. It was bumper to bumper people , like a dove shoot in the woods.

I agree and that's one reason I quit going to Freedom Hills. I would drive half way across the State to get there. Drive for a daily permit. Then be regulted on what zone to hunt in. I had a 45 min conversation with Daniel Toole before he retired from Freedom Hills. He kept saying your odds go up when you have more people in a smaller zone. I told him yes but most of the deer a running you see and their so many people the enjoyment of the hunt goes down.

Is this new?

I've hunted WMAs for 40+ years and only ever gotten a "season map permit" as pictured. Would grab a handful and sign-date them whenver I went.

Never knew there was a second one, a "daily" permit.

It is for all game on skyline wma. It says for data collection. Is other WMA’s the same?

As far as I know it is for North AL WMAs, because I have never seen the requirement before. Someone in another thread said some of the other WMAs have been doing it before though. Several threads have been discussing this.

Your odds of getting killed go up too. Bet hes never hunted a WMA. Me and a couple friends were walking out of skyline several years ago on a gun deer hunt. We jumped 3 does that were right on top of us. These does were not far in front of us and gunfire broke out. Other hunters in front of us killed every one of those deer. And yes we were decked out in hunter orange. They dont care, they just want their 6 month old deer.

So now you have to have a state hunting license, WMA license, "season map permit" (pictured above) AND a "daily permit" -- along with federal and state waterfowl stamps, if you're hunting waterfowl -- just to hunt on a WMA?

Possibly SIX licenses, permits or stamps?

Screw that. Guess hunting the WMAs are off my list now, too.


Just like frogs being boiled slowly, and some folks don't even know it or worse, don't care.

Yes sir, that is correct.