[kenton6]

Yesterday I posted this story, http://mainehuntingtoday.com/b2/index.php/all/2005/12/27/baiting_deer_on_the_rise_in_maine
about how baiting deer in Maine is becoming a problem.

Do you think it is a problem? Do you bait deer? (You don't have to answer that if you don't want to) and do you know hunters who do bait.

Do you think baiting should be allowed and if so why.

Would you report someone who you know is baiting deer?

 

[Earlthepearl]

I don't bait deer, but I think it is a good idea to help them along with nutrition during the late winter months. Maybe with some of that mineral stuff you buy in Cabelas etc.
I would not turn someone in who was baiting deer. Let the dam wardens get out of their trucks and do the job they spose to be doing. Only time I ever see one is in their truck riding around, bothering people doing stuff legal and all.
Hey Mr. Warden........ get out of the dam truck!!!

 

[stweedie]

I don't bait deer, and I don't think baiting should be legal. I know that there were a group of guys near my camp that were using grain to shoot all of their deer. The only reason I know this is because a local in town was telling me how the wardens found the stands and baits but the hunter's had already tagged out and couldn't get them for anything. I'm the kind of guy who does things by the rules. I wouldn't be able to feel very proud of myself if I baited my deer. All the fun is trying to find them, figure them out, and outsmart them. After that fraction of a second it takes to pull the trigger the work begins.

 

[Lil John]

I don't care much for bait myself. There is plenty of natural bait out there, Does, beechnut, acorns, raspberry, etc.
Bait is for fishing, it dosen't belong in the deer woods.
If you aint man enough to "hunt" for your deer, then step aside and let me show you how it's done!

 

[kenton6]

YEEEAWWWW! You tell em LJ.

Maine certainly is a unique place when it comes to hunting whitetail! Wouldn't trade it for nothin

 

[aroostookbasser]

Your a good man LJ..........up here in the county if you use bait and I find it.....the Warden fines you!!!! I have a trail cam that I place........pictures don't lie and I don't have to appear to say a word.

 

[Lil John]

Thank you, thank you very much.
I'll be here all week.

bows

 

[aroostookbasser]

uh.......does piling apples from an area tree out in the edges count as baiting or is it just strategic feeding?

 

[sremington]

That is strategic feeding in my book.. :wink:

 

[aroostookbasser]

An old guide trick ..........

 

[kenton6]

Kinda like one of dem pineapple trees.
I remember a few years back coming across netted grapefruit bags filled with apples hanging from pine trees scattered all through one of my favorite hunting areas.
Dang if the wind didn't blow them all away! Shucks!

 

[aroostookbasser]

That's taking the idea way out on a limb...pine or otherwise. I don't blame you there. But what's relocation of a few yards vs making pine trees bear fruit. Or leaving two rows of corn standing on the back corner of the field.

 

[kenton6]

Still baiting and I don't think any of them Warden fellas would accept your explanation.

I think you is yankin my chain potato man.

 

[aroostookbasser]

I've been bashed...trashed and now ............mashed

 

[kenton6]

:lol: :lol:

 

[sremington]

Where did potato man come from? Did I miss something? :?

 

[aroostookbasser]

See what can happens when your not paying attention?

Them Christian Outdoorsman sneaks in and takes over!!!!!!!!

 

[Dirigo]

Where did potato man come from? Did I miss something? :?

cause he lives in The County?