decoys left out unattended
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How would moving them be illegal?
If I arrived next time and they were there unattended I would just drag them on shore into their blind. Seems simple enough to me.
Leaving things on public land is illegal decoys were still there yesterday afternoon guys were last there Friday night
It is more of a grey area than distinctly illegal, in theory you could find yourself accused of interfering with a lawful hunt, I doubt you'd find yourself facing more than a couple angry words from the owners. Damaging or taking may be a different story, although I have packed up and taken decoys home to return to their rightful owners, different situation where I hunt areas with current flow and tidal influence and I only do it if a coming weather event is likely to cause them to become lost, most guys are grateful, one was cranky and a few have told me to keep the decoys.
Myself I'd risk it and put them in their blind, but I also wouldn't have sat all morning watching birds work an area without hunters that I had access to and not made the move. While ducks have habitual flyways and preferred pounds/feeding or staging areas that they use at the end of the day they can fly and go where they want. That is why going to where they want to be is key to success.
I talked to a C.O, and he said not...
1st off, they aren't yours, be like moving someone's ladder stand or game camera..
#### that. WE own it. Its OUR water. Last time I checked god didn't pay taxes to the CRA, and he doesn't do jack #### about managing our game species.
I would think leaving them IS illegal - at minimum it should be covered by littering laws? You're literally leaving big hunks of plastic in a lake FFS.
OP I like the idea of throwing the dekes in their blind. I'd be contacting a CO about it to see what they say - it might very well be illegal for them to leave them there, and the CO's might come and take them, or they might tell you what they're doing is perfectly legal and you can't do #### about it.
I wouldn't take them either, or cut them loose. But I might haul them all up onto shore in one big tangled mess.
And I would say that since you were the one actually out hunting at the time, it was their decoys which were interfering with YOUR hunt.
And I would say that since you were the one actually out hunting at the time, it was their decoys which were interfering with YOUR hunt.
And isn't interfering with a legal hunt an offense?
How is it interfering?
He merely moved them to higher ground so as to not get the anchor lines wrapped in his prop or someone else’s prop when traveling through in the darker hours of early morning.
Rob
No, I mean the dekes being left out is interfering with the OP's hunt.
I completely agree with your reasoning for moving the dekes. I'm sure one could come up with a lot of reasons to move them without coming across as acting malicious.
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tylerjwitty
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Id think touching someones setup would be no different than touching someones ladder stand or buck decoy. Id fine the person that touched them if i had the ticket book..
these guys have NOT been hunting their decoys for 72 hours and counting IE they have been floating since their last visit Friday night its public land (lake)
Anything left obstructing public land isn’t untouchable. Don’t steal it, don’t damage it unnecessarily, move it when it’s in the way. If to leave your vehicle blocking a road and it is pulled aside when the loggers show up, it’s the same thing. If you take something hone that is obviously not garbage that’s another story.
I had a problem one year with some one digging a pit on a field, late afternoon, and putting a pile of geese decoys, with out asking.
I happened to have a set of heavy harrows still hooked up to the tractor, that leveled things out very nicely.
I happened to have a set of heavy harrows still hooked up to the tractor, that leveled things out very nicely.
