Duck-baiting hunters fined

[scott_r]

Yes, it's called POACHING.

That is not poaching, that is illegal baiting.

 

[foxytrapper]

Pretty stiff fine for one shxt duck. That'll learn them.

 

[captonion]

Law is law....

That being said, I don't see the big deal about baiting ducks..you can bait deer,bear, and coyotes. It should be legal, or illegal to bait all across the board IMO.

 

[2fat2fly]

Law is law....

That being said, I don't see the big deal about baiting ducks..you can bait deer,bear, and coyotes. It should be legal, or illegal to bait all across the board IMO.

deer,bear, and coyotes don't react to baiting the same as waterfowl, or it would be permitted.

 

[captonion]

deer,bear, and coyotes don't react to baiting the same as waterfowl, or it would be permitted.

LOL....Hows that? They all come to eat the bait! Do they not? There is a limit for ducks just as there is for anything else!

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

LOL....Hows that? They all come to eat the bait! Do they not? There is a limit for ducks just as therr is for anything else!

Hundreds of deer and bears don't swarm your bait until it is completely consumed. It's also not very easy to hide the three extra bears you killed over bait.

As far as comparing baitng coyotes to baiting ducks, coyotes are generally considered nuisances and we as a result tend not to be as "sporting" as we might be otherwise with them.

 

[captonion]

Hundreds of deer and bears don't swarm your bait until it is completely consumed.

Not in hundreds, but they do come in unnatural numbers to the bait. The use of bait takes game out of their natural routine to eat. You use bait, you will see more game! Just sit in a stand using apples, or bear bait, and another with no bait on the same property, and get back to me on that!

By the way the bating of deer in Ont is now on the table. It may just not be legal this fall!

 

[.17]

Not in hundreds, but they do come in unnatural numbers to the bait. The use of bait takes game out of their natural routine to eat. You use bait, you will see more game! Just sit in a stand using apples, or bear bait, and another with no bait on the same property, and get back to me on that!

Save your breath my friend,even though your right.

 

[2fat2fly]

Not in hundreds, but they do come in unnatural numbers to the bait. The use of bait takes game out of their natural routine to eat. You use bait, you will see more game! Just sit in a stand using apples, or bear bait, and another with no bait on the same property, and get back to me on that!

By the way the bating of deer in Ont is now on the table. It may just not be legal this fall!

Yes, but if you shoot at one, he won't loop around for another go at it. They are predators, and as such are quite a bit sharper than a bird.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

Not in hundreds, but they do come in unnatural numbers to the bait. The use of bait takes game out of their natural routine to eat. You use bait, you will see more game! Just sit in a stand using apples, or bear bait, and another with no bait on the same property, and get back to me on that!

By the way the bating of deer in Ont is now on the table. It may just not be legal this fall!

You can't turn un-productive deer land into productive deer land with just bait, you can with ducks.

Baiting ducks is different than baiting other animals, not that difficult to understand if you know anything about how the game you hunt lives day to day.

I did here about the deer baiting, making it illegal will only make it tougher for use to keep the deer herd at a manageable level. It will probably lead to higher doe populations, which are conducive to deer numbers but not to quality populations.

 

[captonion]

OK

There is a duck pond I hunted where the ducks flew in good to poor. The pond is about 12-15 acres, and 2-4'deep on average. About 20yrs ago we seeded it with wild rice. after about 4 years the woodies flew in like crazy, and later in the season the ring bills take over. I'm talkin ,insane morning hunts.

My Question. Since wild rice wasn't native to this pond, is this baiting?

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

OK

There is a duck pond I hunted where the ducks flew in good to poor. The pond is about 12-15 acres, and 2-4'deep on average. About 20yrs ago we seeded it with wild rice. after about 4 years the woodies flew in like crazy, and later in the season the ring bills take over. I'm talkin ,insane morning hunts.

My Question. Since wild rice wasn't native to this pond, is this baiting?

No different than a food plot, there is a difference between planting wild rice and laying in bushels of corn. You could attract ducks to a cement cattle trough with corn or buckwheat, you couldn't with wild rice.

You enhanced duck habitat by planting the wild rice, as you said the ducks were already there.

 

[CROWCA]

You could plant what ever you like harvest it and leave it on the ground it is not baiting!Mary Jane might work,if not you could sell it to the BC boys!!!!!