Sticky situation – Winnipeg Free Press

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For many years now, duck and goose hunters from across North America have stopped in at Sticky’s Bait and Tackle in Dauphin to buy their licences, pick up supplies and get the latest from Don (Sticky) Stokotelny about the local fish and wildlife populations. | None of that has really changed, except this year, the hunters won’t be able to get their federal migratory bird permits from Stokotelny. His vendorship of the federal licences has been rescinded as Environment and Climate Change Canada moves toward offering licence sales exclusively online. | “As long as they let everyone know this is happening, I’m OK with it. I think it will be inconvenient if people don’t know about it,” said Stokotelny, owner and operator of Sticky’s Bait, Tackle and Guiding Service. “People will get used to it. What choice do they have? Changes happen every day.” | Change is indeed the driver in this equation, as the federal department that administers migratory bird-hunting permits across Canada has made a conscious decision to wrap up its vendorship system altogether and move all licence buyers online. The change will be phased in over the next couple of years but is already happening, and quickly at that.
For many years now, duck and goose hunters from across North America have stopped in at Sticky’s Bait and Tackle in Dauphin to buy their licences, pick up supplies and get the latest from Don (S