HuntFishNY

Gordon-Darby, Inc.

About this app

HuntFishNY is the official New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mobile app that provides our sportsmen/women a simple way to display their licenses and privileges and view important hunting and fishing related information. In addition to the many resources DEC's website offers for hunters, trappers and anglers across the state, our HuntFishNY mobile app offers instant mobile access to electronic versions of your sporting licenses, privileges and permits; the ease of reporting your game harvests immediately; and links to useful information like season date summaries, fishing information, a DEC Contact list, and much more. It also includes a feature called the Tackle Box that provides anglers with one stop shopping for waterbody-specific information on fishing regulations, stocking, and fishing/boating access sites. Tackle Box is part of DEC’s continued efforts to make fishing easier, more enjoyable and more accessible to all!

HuntFishNY features include:
• Instant, mobile access to a customer's sporting license, privileges and permits
• Quick and easy submission of Game Harvest Reports
• Smart filtering for collecting town, county and WMU of harvest data, as well as season and method of take info
• Ability to view current and past harvest reports
• Links to current year Hunting & Trapping and Freshwater Fishing Regulations Guides
• Sunrise/Sunset Information
• Ability to search waterbodies by name or zooming/panning a NYS map
• Waterbody-specific fishing regulations
• Fish species and stocking information
• Fishing access information, including boat launches and parking areas
• Navigation feature for driving directions to fishing access sites

Ratings and reviews

Used to work... When I originally downloaded it it worked well for reporting tags and showing your license privileges. Hasn't worked right for the last couple years. Trying to look at most anything returns an "invalid" error. To purchase licenses you end up being directed to the Kalkomy site. Can't believe with all the money we spend on licenses and tags we can't get a decent app. It worked great when first launched.

Downloaded the app to report a harvest. Unable to login. Username and password don't work. Try to register and it tells me I already have an account. Login through the website with the same credentials and it works fine. Go back and try the app again and still fails. May as well just use the website. Webpage layouts on mobile browser for HIPS are awful but at least I can get logged in. If you want people to be better about reporting their harvests you need to get these issues resolved.

Whole process of buying and printing your license needs streamlining. Have to hunt all over just to get to the order forms. Sends you in circles. New license doesn't even resemble a license. Old system gave you a small license that you can put in your wallet. Now it's a whole page of extraneous dead space. And if want an electronic online copy, you have to go to Google play store and monkey around with installing an app to display your license. And no way to put shortcut on your desktop.

What’s new

Updated 2025-2026 seasonal Help Info
Improved session expiration workflow
Updated Tag icons
Enhanced Harvest Reporting confirmation message
Enhanced Harvest Reporting County/Town/WMU data entry