Baiting

[NMSbowhunter]

That's interesting. I knew about the Land Between the Lakes area having a lot of water but in my mind, I think of most of Kentucky as hills and hollows. I've been through Kentucky a couple of times, through the central part going up to Ohio. I'm sure it has a lot of habitat diversity, just like Mississippi. Maybe I'll get up that way someday to do an out of state hunt. It's some beautiful county.

 

[katiesmom]

Alabama last year added the ability to bait on private or leased land, not public, but you have to buy a $15 permit for it.

 

[Nutterbuster]

I think the stickier issue would be someone hunting on the public side within view of the bait. They tried to railroad our natural resource head for hunting turkey over bait. The "bait" IIRC was a bird feeder om private ground a few hundred yards away on private ground

I have often worried about showing up to an area in the dark, hanging a stand, and then getting "busted" by a warden for hunting over something I had no way of knowing was there.

Oddly, I've never had such a scenario. But, two separate times on two separate properties I've taken my dad out and put him on somebody else's corn pile. I still wonder if he believes me, but I've never put out bait.

Now, on the other hand, I have absolutely set up on a property line looking through the woods at other people's corn. I technically have a $15 baiting permit, and the bait is on private property. The laws say:

You have to have a permit to hunt over bait...check

You cannot distribute bait on public property...check

You cannot trespass on private property...check

LOOPHOLE!!

 

[KYHunter]

That's interesting. I knew about the Land Between the Lakes area having a lot of water but in my mind, I think of most of Kentucky as hills and hollows. I've been through Kentucky a couple of times, through the central part going up to Ohio. I'm sure it has a lot of habitat diversity, just like Mississippi. Maybe I'll get up that way someday to do an out of state hunt. It's some beautiful county.

All those hollows have a creek at the bottom lol

 

[skydoc]

It's like that here too. I find, as I walk along a ridge, so many draws with flowing water running down from the top, all down into creek bottoms below. These deer around here do not have to travel far for water.

Double edged sword with the large swamp on my private property. Got a big buck bedding in there. Want to put some mineral on private between swamp and public. Dont really wish to draw him closer to public, it is only access without him watching me walk across a 10 acre briar patch. He was a big 12 last year. Growing nicely so far this year.

 

[skydoc]

I have often worried about showing up to an area in the dark, hanging a stand, and then getting "busted" by a warden for hunting over something I had no way of knowing was there.

Oddly, I've never had such a scenario. But, two separate times on two separate properties I've taken my dad out and put him on somebody else's corn pile. I still wonder if he believes me, but I've never put out bait.

Now, on the other hand, I have absolutely set up on a property line looking through the woods at other people's corn. I technically have a $15 baiting permit, and the bait is on private property. The laws say:

You have to have a permit to hunt over bait...check

You cannot distribute bait on public property...check

You cannot trespass on private property...check

LOOPHOLE!!

What state are you in?

 

[Iron_llama]

I have often worried about showing up to an area in the dark, hanging a stand, and then getting "busted" by a warden for hunting over something I had no way of knowing was there.

Oddly, I've never had such a scenario.

I have. Kinda-sorta-almost.

Climbed up into a stand on public land - MN law is "public land, public stand". This particular stand was an abandoned loc-on bolted to a tree for a decade or so, still in decent shape, perodically hunters would replace/augment the ratchet straps or screw-in steps. Minding my own business, glassing around, ranging trees, and I keep looking back to this funny speckled brown rock that I didn't remember from last season. When I climbed down and checked it out I saw that it was a molasses block with corn in it. Well, dukes, I've just illegally hunted over bait without realizing it. I was pissed, and grateful that I didn't shoot anything. Immediately called the game warden, sent her pictures and GPS coordinates, and hunted other spots on the same chunk of public land. This was at the base of a slope leading to a ridgeline paralleling the Lake Superior shoreline. I spend the rest of archery season hunting the ridgeline and top half of the slope, leaving the lower half of the slope alone, without success.

Come rifle season, I talk to another couple of hunters who tells me that the wardens are working this giant baiting operation all along the base of the slope. I pretty quickly realized that my report had been exaggerated several times over, with the end result that I had the entire slope - except the meadow with the bait in it - to myself, while the ridgeline was a bit crowded compared to previous years. Shot a nice fat doe a few meadows over from where I had seen the molasses block.

10/10 would report baiting again.

 

[skydoc]

Post up your findings. I'm in SC Kentucky, and I border public. If there's a certain distance away from public that I have to be with that...I may have to change a few things.

I talked with the wildlife officer in my area. He advised that i can bait/place minerals anywhere on my property with no limits on proximity to public lands. He advised that I could hunt from either side of the property line as long as animal is harvested on private land. He was also very helpful interpreting some of the rules regarding a local WMA. Those guides read like ancient hieroglyphics to me sometimes.