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Would you pay for a license to bait game species (other than migratory game birds) ?
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diamond hunter
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Heck,why pay a permit fee when whoever wants to bait just pours it out with no repercussion?
I'm afraid it's coming for deer. Hope I'm wrong
JCDEERMAN
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Nope!
I voted no. But if they do it, it should only be allowed for people who own the land. Not leases, or permission farms, cousins land or definitely not public land. It would open a can of worms. Farmers wouldnt like to see it. Some farms would have rival corn piles feeding fueds between hunters and it would create hard feelings and rifts between hunters and livestock (owned by the land owners who are kind enough to open gates to farmers). It would create an opportunity for hunters to have an excuse to increase atv (to lug in feed and feeders) use on land they dont own and lead to more gates being closed permanently to hunting.it could also leade to more litter -I have leased farms to hunters for yrs and i can tell you the number one and two complaints i receive are litter and lazy folks riding atvs on farms. All in all its a road that would hurt hunting long term.
You do. Its called a hunting license!!! Or it should be anyway…
Very true
RobDooley
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I was a new member/hunter on a lease many years ago. It was early season and acorns were still falling while I was in my lofty perch. I was scanning the terrain with my binos and discovered a covered trough feeder loaded with corn about a hundred yards away. I started to get down, I stayed put. I watched deer after deer file by that feeder as they headed for the white oaks. This year we put out some corn & BB2 early before the season opened. They barely touched it. Only a very few pictures. I don't think it is that big of a deal as long as it is not done year-round. I know how some feel about hunting over bait. I get it. Is it really any different than the acre food plot? Ethically speaking. I do believe if you keep bait out the deer will become more and more nocturnal.
megalomaniac
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Id vote YES... with the caveat that the extra revenue generated goes directly to decreasing the cost of hunting licenses or directly to prosecution of other game laws.
If it just gets lumped into the general budget of TWRA, the things I'm more interested in (making hunting more affordable, and aggressively prosecuting those with blatant disregard for game laws) won't see any benefit.
I could care less whether you bait deer, as long as it doesn't hurt my turkey hunting (baiting deer won't hurt my deer hunting... but if you are irresponsible and pour bait on the ground that molds and it affects my turkeys, imma turn your butt in), and you can waste all the $$$ you want. I am COMPLETELY opposed to baiting turkeys... that is completely unethical. Even worse than when I was a 7yo shooting songbirds off my grandmother's bird feeder in the back yard. My papaw should have whooped my a$$ for doing that.
Redblood has a good point about trash/ litter... you should see some of the backroads down here in MS with corn and feed sacks scattered all along the roads that have blown out of someones pickup.
If it just gets lumped into the general budget of TWRA, the things I'm more interested in (making hunting more affordable, and aggressively prosecuting those with blatant disregard for game laws) won't see any benefit.
I could care less whether you bait deer, as long as it doesn't hurt my turkey hunting (baiting deer won't hurt my deer hunting... but if you are irresponsible and pour bait on the ground that molds and it affects my turkeys, imma turn your butt in), and you can waste all the $$$ you want. I am COMPLETELY opposed to baiting turkeys... that is completely unethical. Even worse than when I was a 7yo shooting songbirds off my grandmother's bird feeder in the back yard. My papaw should have whooped my a$$ for doing that.
Redblood has a good point about trash/ litter... you should see some of the backroads down here in MS with corn and feed sacks scattered all along the roads that have blown out of someones pickup.
Im curious to know how baiting turkeys is unethical but baiting deer is not? Or are speaking of mature deer?
megalomaniac
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I really don't care that much about deer. Their population won't suffer if everyone starts baiting.
Turkeys are a different matter. They LOVE feeders, and HAVE to hit them in daylight (as opposed to deer, who usually hit feeders at night). You can absolutely wipe out a local population of turkeys if someone is baiting and set up on the bait. Just look at how many can be captured with bait and cannon nets.
Headhunter
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Nope, not even a consideration.
milkey
Well-Known Member
Your neighbor is pulling deer off your property to their corn piles . Why shouldn't everyone have that opportunity.
I get what you're saying and I do agree that it'll change their pattern up some. But I haven't seen that affect on them with my neighbor. I'm in one of the 5 counties of Ky where we can't bait now due to the cwd deer found in Henry Co TN. But when we could I know my neighbor was buying
on the cob by the truck load. I had no problem with him doing it and I bought corn too just not near as much as he did. I never seen any kind of difference in deer population from my place to his. The advantage I have over him is come mod October when acorns start dropping they'll pass his corn piles up and feast on my place with the hardwoods I have. I'm neutral on baiting, can take it or leave it. I think if some were ever allowed to bait they'd eventually feel the same way also. I've just got the mindset it will never change the way I hunt
And for the record, with CWD spreading like wildfire, (or at least being identified like wildfire) this seems like a very unlikely time for TWRA to allow baiting.
backyardtndeer
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Yes, absolutely agree with this.
Headhunter
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True, but the TWRA would rather build and maintain buck blinds and not put that money toward law enforcement which is where the state's wildlife (especially our fisheries) need HELP the most. The illegal alien/immigrant population will destroy our fisheries, they have already changed them (actually destroyed many different types of "catching") and it covers the entire state of Tennessee.
I was surprised with CWD spreading around any state would allow or expand baiting but Georgia and Alabama have.
