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If CWD continues like it is, baiting will be illegal everywhere. Ohio is banning baiting on private ground if the CWD counties
Up until 2 years ago, WV allowed baiting on public land also, so long as you stopped by Aug 31, with archery season coming in last Saturday of September. If you made salt licks, then they lasted until early season and also putting out corn would change deer travel routes on the public as well, and increase shot chances. Now, you can hunt right over bait on private land and cannot bait at all on public. However, the vast majority of baiting always happened on private, so the new law makes very little change. This all occurred in part due to CWD, but there are some relatively powerful folks that want baiting on private land to continue. I say make it all illegal, but people will keep doing it so long as they sell dried corn!