Ducaholic wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:Ducaholic wrote:Ericdc wrote:Called game warden, he said not to use millet. We’d be definitely manipulating it by driving or walking through it on levee road.
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Only because planting on the levee is not a normal agricultural practice. Is that what he told you?
That's not the reason. It's if you knock it down. If you plant corn for normal agricultural practices and then some moron comes out and does donuts in it, it is considered baiting because it is manipulated. You are fine to plant it, but you cannot tramp it down. You can flood it or leave it standing. You just can drive over it or cut it or knock a bunch of it down.
This is one of the reason I hate the baiting laws. If you have the money, you can easily bait legally. However, it is very easy to get in trouble for baiting even if you had no intention of baiting.
Nothing wrong with planting millet, it just can't be where you, your vehicles, your dog, etc. are going to knock a bunch of it to the ground. That's why the warden said "by driving or walking through it on levee road."
We had very low water a number of years ago. I planted millet all over the place where it would not get manipulated. By the time the season rolled around every little bird and probably some ducks and geese had cleaned it out. It was pretty amazing. I only needed to plant probably 10 times more to be useful.
You can knock it down in the normal practice of getting to and from the blind, setting out deoys, picking up decoys, retrieving downed birds etc. Anything beyond that is illegal. Both my Uncle and First Cousin are retired game wardens. It's a slippery slope. Eric is right, no reason to push it.
Right, and this wouldn’t be but a 20 ft strip about 1200 feet long, but anyway. We going to plant rye grass in October I believe.
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