Baiting Bill HB1618/SB1942

[bjohnson]

Bills introduced to allow baiting on private land. Your thoughts?

 

[themanpcl]

Personally I HATE the idea. I have enough people all around me baiting while it is not legal. If it were to pass, I would not.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Guessing that it doesn't apply to cwd unit. I know of some around me that already bait even with it being illegal. Don't know that it would make a difference for me as I would rather plant food plots.

 

[BSK]

Hate it.

Learn to hunt.

 

[dhpro]

Absolutely not !

 

[MickThompson]

If you care about your kid's or grand kids' ability to hu t, you'll stand against it. Nothing erodes nonhunter support for our lifestyle as fast as bait.

 

[Omega]

Don't care, I don't, and won't do it for deer, but what I have heard is many do it now anyway, legal or not. Besides, once CWD spreads, it will be a moot point.

 

[PWoody]

Agree with MickT. No way!

 

[KTS]

100% against it!

 

[Boll Weevil]

I'm in a CWD county so glad I don't have to worry about it ever being legal.

 

[MickThompson]

I'm in a CWD county so glad I don't have to worry about it ever being legal.

State law supercedes TWRA regs

 

[megalomaniac]

Could care less for deer... I dont think it really helps, and often hurts success on mature bucks.

I'm opposed to it because it opens the door for even more illegal baiting for turkeys

 

[gladesman60]

Would not want to see baiting legalized.

 

[dhpro]

Any word on other stuff at the TWRA meeting today? I looked could not find anything?

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Already legal to bait 365 days a year for hogs on private land. I vote no for deer.

 

[Lost Lake]

I'd like to see feeding of all wildlife except songbirds be illegal, and actually enforced.

 

[MickThompson]

Any word on other stuff at the TWRA meeting today? I looked could not find anything?

This is in the legislature, not TWRA

 

[MickThompson]

Right now the no's are 26- will our legislators even get 26 emails about this issue? Not likely.

 

[tntrkkllr]

Every one is so negative about this, is corn going to wipe the deer population out or something?? There's so much food naturally for deer to eat in Tennessee it's not Ike it's going to hurt anything. You can put corn out in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky , Georgia abd Alabama so why not here? In my side of the state there's so much AG that it I don't think it would matter if you baited or not. Yeah I'm sure it'll help later in the season when food is slim but like this year there was so many acorns the deer hardly touched our green plots. I guess all those states that allow it don't have
" real hunters " and it's going to ruin Tennessee just like them. I guarantee every one on here has a neighbor that does it illegal now and you don't care. If it's legal and you don't want to do it then just don't simple as that. I know I won't bother with it if they make it legal.

 

[MickThompson]

Every one is so negative about this, is corn going to wipe the deer population out or something?? There's so much food naturally for deer to eat in Tennessee it's not Ike it's going to hurt anything. You can put corn out in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Alabama so why not here? In my side of the state there's so much AG that it I don't think it would matter if you baited or not. Yeah I'm sure it'll help later in the season when food is slim but like this year there was so many acorns the deer hardly touched our green plots. I guess all those states that allow it don't have
" real hunters " and it's going to ruin Tennessee just like them. I guarantee every one on here has a neighbor that does it illegal now and you don't care. If it's legal and you don't want to do it then just don't simple as that. I know I won't bother with it if they make it legal.

You are asking the wrong question. The first question should be "how will this benefit the wildlife (not just deer) of Tennessee?"