Baiting ban has been lifted

[aquatic-archer]

Baiting ban has been lifted in the lower peninsula with the exception of the T.B. zone.

[Hockey9019]

Good

[RevDerb]

Does me no good.

[Hawgrider]

Its all about choice. Make no difference to me for the most part.
But Its nice to know I can use bait for the bow hunt for nice close clean kill shots.

[TomE]

Since most hunters baited around me on Federal Land , it means I can venture back out there now without much fear of being ticketed for someone else's baitpile . The size of said baitpiles will have to be taken into consideration though.

[MichiganShootist]

I put my 2 gallons of corn out this morning:)

My back yard is 5 wooded acres and it backs up to 100+ acres of woods.... so we enjoy having the deer stop by for a snack.

BTW if you use a funnel it's easy to full up one gallon milk jugs with corn.

[dpgperftest]

I see no reason or had a reason to bait. Real hunters dont need to bait

[miked]

I see no reason or had a reason to bait. Real hunters dont need to bait


:popcorn:

[MichiganShootist]

Real hunters dont need to bait


I assume you still hunt with a sharpened stick:banana:

[Hawgrider]

I assume you still hunt with a sharpened stick:banana:Yeah purist tootin his own horn.

[dpgperftest]

:popcorn:
hehehehe



I assume you still hunt with a sharpened stick:banana:

Last year I was using Potato Chips I had a very young doe sleeping APROX" 15 feet from me for about a week I named her lucy:hide:

[Ruger]

Does me no good.

Same here! Although I was never real big on baiting.

[pkuptruck]

Same here! Although I was never real big on baiting.

ditto. I prefer to hunt... shooting is done on the range.... :woohoo1:

LMAO...

( cant wait for the responses...:fur3: GrIN )

[Too Tall]

I figure if the native Americans used bait, it can't be all that bad of an idea....then again...they also used fire drives (I don't recommend setting the woods on fire).

[Ferd]

Just another tool for people to use. Not sure why people get all riled up over how someone else chooses to hunt. I haven't used bait in the past and not sure if I will now. But if someone chooses to do so, more power to them. Follow the law; Fill the freezer.

[Big_Jim]

Its fine with me, I have more important things to get worked up about. Two gallons isn't that big of a deal.

[dpgperftest]

Baiting ban has been lifted in the lower peninsula with the exception of the T.B. zone.
LINK please

[Ferd]

LINK please

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153--257664--,00.html


Baiting will still be prohibited in Deer Management Unit (DMU) 487, the six-county Bovine Tuberculosis zone in northeastern Lower Michigan. The counties where baiting will continue to be prohibited are Alcona, Alpena, Iosco, Montmorency, Oscoda and Presque Isle.

[mikethepike]

I feed the deer and the deer feed me.......circle of life:-P

[wardog6t]

Real hunters dont need bait!

[dpgperftest]

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153--257664--,00.html
thanks

[Leader]

I see no reason or had a reason to bait. Real hunters dont need to bait

You hunt in a damn CORNFIELD !!!!!!!!!!

[dpgperftest]

You hunt in a damn CORNFIELD !!!!!!!!!!
OH Oops did I forget to add that tidbit :hide: Not really a true statement sometimes I hunt in the bean or Whitfield :door:

[bad86ta]

double post...

[bad86ta]

Some of us need to bait...

It's pretty hard to see deer while hunting when there are VERY few deer to begin with, it also makes it even harder when all your neighbors are illegally baiting and you choose to obey the law...

Here in ingham county I see no reason to bait, the deer are tripping over each other and there is also lots of farm land to hunt.. In the harrison area (clare county) the deer population is non-exsistant... I used to see 30+ deer a day out of my blind, last year I saw 1 yearling all of opening week.

The DNR has no idea how to handle our deer population, deer regulation should be done on a much smaller basis... Perhaps county to county or even tighter then that... The current system flat out just isn't working...

[miked]

Real hunters dont need bait!


Do you ever hunt near natural food? How about a food plot? How about patterning deer traveling to or from a food plot or natural food source?

People are so quick to ride the high horse and criticize others for how they do something.

Unless people are cutting their own osage and bamboo by hand and making their own bows using stone tools; using cane arrows with real turkey feathers tipped with hand knapped flint broadheads tied in with sinew and pine pitch then stalk and kill their animals wearing nothing more then buckskins and mud no one really has right to judge anyone else for how they hunt. Just my 2 cents.

I've hunted with and without bait over the years. It's a tool just like anything else. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's no guarantee.