How do you carry your licenses?

Apparently you didn't understand the implied sarcasm with the use of the quotation marks.

Whatever material it is, they still try to pass it off as "paper"

A couple weekends ago, I pulled my Oregon license out of my wallet to fill in the tag for a Chinook I had just caught.  I was standing in a couple feet of water on a sand bar and I set the tag/license down on the yak to look for my pen.  The tags were in the pouch that they came with from the state.  While looking for my pen to fill out my tag, I tossed an old herring into the water. Apparently, this attracted one or more seagulls. The wind had started to pick up while looking for my pen and when I looked up, the white tyvek pouch containing my tag and license had disappeared. Panic began to set in because between me and the car was an ODFW official, and I had a dead salmon.  I looked everywhere in the immediate vicinity to include under water and in the grass of the sand bar to no avail. After nearly 45 minutes of searching, I began to become suspicious of Mother' Nature's hatred for me.

Now, I did not personally witness the theft, but after looking all over the immediate area and in every compartment of my kayak, my suspicions began to grow as I saw a flock of those greedy sky rat bastards staring at me from about 100 yards away. You can see them over my left shoulder in the picture below.


I proceeded to the sand bar on which they were sitting and mocking me. I scared them all up and, in the midst of where the flock had been sitting, I spotted what appeared to be the pouch containing my license and tags. While deftly dodging the raining seagull shit from the circling flock, I managed to retrieve the pouch with my license and tags. With the mission accomplished, I quickly got out of ground zero, met up with Ndogg to borrow his pen, and filled in my tag.

Upon landing at the launch, I told the fish checker my story of how the seagulls stole my license to see if she would buy it.  She did not. However, she thought it was creative.  Then I told her how I actually recovered my license from the seagull lair and that the story was true.  For some reason it was now a believable story for her.  

So, in summary:

• Oregon licenses apparently look like something tasty to a gull
• They do not absorb water so you do not need a waterproof holder if you do not want to buy one
• Because they do not absorb water you can easily wipe them off and fill in the tag with a ball point pen

  If you do not trust a ball point pen, you can get a Rite-in-the-Rain pen.

Hmmmm... maybe this should have been put in the "things I have lost from my kayak" thread.

Craig, you crack me up. I think you and I have very similar luck. It seems like the most random/odd ball shit only happens to me. I have watched your YouTube video and read numerous reports and I always get a good laugh because it's nice to see that I'm not the only one being dealt a shit hand!

The "paper" on my licenses is fine, it's just the ink has faded/worn off in some areas after getting wet. It's possible that wiping off water on a few occasions caused the ink to fade.

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Just thought of an idea.   

Maybe make a PVC tube that is capped on one end, and screw capped on the other.  Leash it so it can be contained on deck with less fear of being lost.  Use said PVC tube to store both the pen as well as the rolled up license and catch card (cigarette style).

 and mine survived a 45 min swim.

Not to hijack this thread but what the heck were you doing in the water for 45min FG?!?!?

-Spot-

Trying to swim a half swamped kayak back to shore.
It is pretty much impossible.... Hobies are good for towing BTW.

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He was just trying to find a good reason to nancy around the beach in his drawers.