HB 1618

If it passes it passes. A Trophy Rock and mineral licks are possibly as likely to spread CWD as other baits. It doesn't matter me. The agricultural farm I hunt always has plenty of food sources including lots of persimmons, acorns and grass. This year it will be corn. There are always piles of it where they offload into the trailer which isn't considered baiting, just normal farming practices. I have not seen a deer use those piles yet as corn is all over the place after the harvest. Like many have said hunt your hunt the way you want.
 
IMHO they are just grasping at straws with this CWD ...deer are social animals ! Trophy rock , salt or feeding wildlife ain't going to stop the spread of this horrible disease....just let nature take it's course and quit making all the hunters mad . God or nature as some call it has a way of keeping things in balance until man comes along .
 
What can they focus on when they can't go onto property until a search warrant is gotten? I am at a lose as what they will be doing besides setting up road blocks and cking to see if deer are cked in. Is there some type of fee's they have to pay to get a search warrant?
 
mike243 said:
What can they focus on when they can't go onto property until a search warrant is gotten? I am at a lose as what they will be doing besides setting up road blocks and cking to see if deer are cked in. Is there some type of fee's they have to pay to get a search warrant?
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There is thousand and thousands of public land acres they can focus on harassing hunters on
 
knightrider said:
There is thousand and thousands of public land acres they can focus on harassing hunters on
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Funny you say that, I got checked at South Cherokee for the first time ever this year so there may be something to your statement. It's fine though I hope to see them more often. Our officers are hunters too and love to talk.
 
So there are thousands of public acres in each county that they should patrol? , I think my county got shorted a few thousand 🤣 , fire them send them home if no public land in their county? there is some tva property and a lot is land locked or a boat is needed. where is all the public property in your county?
 
mike243 said:
So there are thousands of public acres in each county that they should patrol? , I think my county got shorted a few thousand 🤣 , fire them send them home if no public land in their county? there is some tva property and a lot is land locked or a boat is needed. where is all the public property in your county?
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No 💩, forgot everything has to spelled out specifically for you. There is more than enough to keep them busy without worrying about baitpiles in counties with out lots of public land. My county has north cumberland,tackett,otie mills, thousands of acres of tva since you asked
 
Acorn Goat said:
The revenue collected from baiting permits would greatly outweigh the revenue from baiting tickets. Plus it would allow TWRA to focus on more important matters instead of the easy ticket.
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Bureaucrats that "give" you "rights" always want to manage you and regulate the "rights" for a fee. Through "inspections" which will mean just another reason to come on private property unannounced. And when they can make money doing it they will be even more likely to have reasons to question, investigate, interrogate, and gather "data" for a "report" that documents the wonderful job they are doing checking up you. The fees will give them an incentive to elaborate on how you should or should not be baiting according to their directives. If TWRA says its ok to bait with corn on private property they have shown their hypocrisy in saying it contributes to the spread of diseases. Which apparently is a concern not shared by the wildlife management organizations in surrounding states. TWRA should stop interfering with it as a freedom-of-choice and fair-chase issue on private property and leave it illegal on public lands that they manage. Anyone that currently uses bait (largely undetected) is not going to pay a fee to do what they are already doing. Next you could see TWRA ask for an increased funding for a "better computer system" to keep up with the new "baiting fees."
 
timberjack86 said:
Funny you say that, I got checked at South Cherokee for the first time ever this year so there may be something to your statement. It's fine though I hope to see them more often. Our officers are hunters too and love to talk.
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Did they check your license? Every time I get stopped up there they just ask how I've done and shoot the bull for a while. They never ask for my license. That's nowadays though. Back when I was hog and bear hunting, if you had a dog box on the truck, you got treated like a criminal.
 
CATCHDAWG said:
Did they check your license? Every time I get stopped up there they just ask how I've done and shoot the bull for a while. They never ask for my license. That's nowadays though. Back when I was hog and bear hunting, if you had a dog box on the truck, you got treated like a criminal.
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Yes we was bear hunting with dogs but they stayed and shot the bull for awhile.
 

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