South Carolina · Fishing license · Cost
How much is a fishing license in South Carolina?
$10 a year if you live here, $35 if you don't. Fresh and salt are separate licences; there is no combined fishing licence for visitors.
Just passing through? Saltwater fishing, one day costs $10 — the annual pays for itself from about 4 of those.
Every license price
| License | Who | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freshwater fishing, annual | Resident | $10 |
| Saltwater fishing, annual | Resident | $15 |
| Combination (freshwater fishing and hunting), annual Bundles hunting with the freshwater licence. | Resident | $25 |
| Freshwater fishing, 14 days | Resident | $5 |
| Saltwater fishing, 14 days | Resident | $10 |
| Freshwater fishing, three years | Resident | $30 |
| Saltwater fishing, three years | Resident | $45 |
| Senior fishing (64+), fresh and salt Residents of 64 and over born before 1 July 1940 get it free instead. | Resident | $9 |
| Freshwater fishing, annual | Visitor | $35 |
| Saltwater fishing, annual | Visitor | $75 |
| Freshwater fishing, 14 days | Visitor | $11 |
| Saltwater fishing, 7 days | Visitor | $35 |
| Saltwater fishing, one day | Visitor | $10 |
| Freshwater fishing, three years | Visitor | $105 |
Fees inside the price
Freshwater and saltwater are separate licences in South Carolina. The three-year versions cost exactly three times the annual price — they save renewals, not money.
How long your money lasts
South Carolina sells the annual licences for a year and also offers them as three-year packages at three times the price — no discount for buying longer, just fewer renewals.
What we could not pin down
Rather than fill these in from somewhere else, they stay open until SCDNR states them plainly.
- SCDNR's resident price page lists no one-day or seven-day freshwater licence; only the 14-day one is published here rather than assuming a shorter option exists.
- There is no non-resident combination licence on SCDNR's page, so none is listed.
- Free fishing days: no dated announcement was read on the SCDNR pages, so the rule stands without dates.
