There will be a lottery like last year. It is tentatively scheduled for June1 through June 30th.
During that time you can apply by telephone, or online. You will have a couple of choices...
Apply for the general drawing, which will have
AT LEAST 12,500 tags.
Use your outfitters number(only if you are using an outfitter) and you will be in the first lottery, which is for outfitter clients only. This first lottery has 7,500 tags reserved, and any portion of those 7,500 that do not sell will be added to the 12,500 tags that are left for the general lottery.
In addition, if you
DO use your outfitters number, and the first 7,500 tags sell out without you getting one....you will
AUTOMATICALLY be entered into the second lottery.
The downside of entering the outfitter only drawing is.......if you get a tag via this method,
the ONLY place it is valid is on land that outfitter owns or leases.After reading all of that.....I am fairly certain that given the additional increase in price this year, it will cost a non-resident roughly $443.00 for everything they need, the tags will
NOT even come close to selling out in either of the lotteries.
Oh yeah, the actual lottery will be sometime in July.