re: Is this legal?

Was written up ten years ago with no corn on ground (turkey season). Field was considered baited for 12 days after the last grain of bait is gone.


Note: I didn't bait the field, so I had no way to know it was "baited" since the corn had been gone for a couple days before I hunted there.

Wear one of these

quote:

---

My cousin just asked his supervisor this question over the phone. After explaining it to him he said you can be ticketed for baiting and that colored plywood or tin submerged in water is considered baiting "material"

---

obviously you don't make the laws or write the tickets, so I'm not arguing with YOU, but that seems like such bullshite. Not bullshite in the sense that you're lying, but in the fact that its ridiculous.

the way the guy explained it in the op is that he would put it in a pond that never had bait in it. That's like putting an empty, battery-less feeder in a food plot that has never had corn. never has corn been on the site but a device that can be used for corn is put there and it can be illegal?

Yall are doing it all wrong. I use something like this. My hunting clothes for Deer and duck. Draws them in from near and far.

quote:

---

I have heard and read in more than 1 location of people baiting using burlap sacks full of sweet potatoes submerged so that they released a sweet smell the ducks like

---

Works... or should I say, "worked back in the day." Now they have infared sensors, I believe.

Game wardens are not the most intelligent sorr out there so i am not even sure if they know about nuances like this. I do know that when they are unsure, they still write the ticket.

Damn, why can't you guys just straight up hunt instead of always trying to figure out how to circumnavigate the law?

Counselor: "mr. Greenjeans, did you find salt, grain, or other feed distributed or otherwise present in the area that day or on any day previously?"

Geenjeans: "No, I found a white board, and that white board...

Counselor: "Objection, non-responsive."

Magistrate: "Sustained. Greenjeans, you are to answer counselor's questions and not stray from the question asked."

Counselor: "So Greenjeans, you found a white board submerged in water with out the presence of salt, grain, or other feed?"

Geenjeans: "Yes, that is correct."

Counselor: "Your honor, we move for a dismissal, and will institute a 1983 action immedietly. We ask the court to warn the witness-the witness had rights."

Magistrate: "Charges dismissed. Bailiff, please escort Greenjeans to a holding cell, the witness had rights."

"The witness has rights."

Illegal.

For those that dont duck hunt, laws are much more strenious..... Migratory birds are federal game.

Dont bait fields, or attempt to fool a duck into thinking it was baited. Same punishment.