Don't feed the wild life.... Plain and simple. It will be illegal if you or anyone else shoots over the bait..
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The best person to ask is your local game warden. He is the one who is writing the tickets!
actually you need to take a poll between 5 wardens with sworn affidavits since they all have their own regulations, which you can then show a judge and have a chance.
There were some guys a few years ago who baited their private property for turkey before season. Just tossing seeds a few months in advance. Opening morning green pants came right on and wrote citations and I believe took firearms. I would never bait in CA you are asking for trouble all it takes is one guy to see you or stumble across that bag and a warden will be waiting for you during deer season.
yeah. and regarding the "unless I'm hunting comment". if I understand correctly, Deer are pattern minded. get a feast for a day or 2 in 1 spot and they will continue to return..so guess where the first spot you would likely look on deer season would be?
I think it's illegal to feed any kind of wild animal, but I could be wrong better check regs.
You won't see many rubs....in all my years down here it's very rare on public land. Now I'd deffently hunt that area there are bucks in there it's just hard to tell by just tracks. Most of the time the really big tracks can be a buck.
I'd start walking the trails in that area to see what's going on. Also brush the tracks away so you can see what's been there since your last visit
I hunt mostly private property these days and I see lots of rubs......I even saw a buck this morning doing a scrape.....Also saw 2 bucks sparing.....Spike and a small forky.
1st pic is a bucks rubbing tree....2nd pic sparring.
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1st pic is a bucks rubbing tree....2nd pic sparring.
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Well yes.......Butt these pix are from another piece.
ps......MMC is private, but anyone can join....MCC sighting in rifles this morning & turkeys.
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So if I planted a plot of Tecomate seed on my own land in March I would be considered baiting when hunting season comes around?
That sounds really stupid. The regs even say, in so many words, if it is growing it is not baiting. Not buying that story at all. I call B.S.
Fairy tail or urban legend, one or the other.
Now it may be illegal to feed wild animals, I'll have to check, but that is a far cry from baiting.
So I guess the consensus is don't do it.
I'm still not buying it.
The seeds would be long gone after several months.
So when they were hunting, there couldn't have been any seed left.
If the seed was still on the ground and not germinated, that would be baiting, yes I see that.
The seeds would be long gone after several months.
So when they were hunting, there couldn't have been any seed left.
If the seed was still on the ground and not germinated, that would be baiting, yes I see that.
So what?
Does that make it baiting in California?
Because many ,many other states it does not.
A lot of the baiting issue is gray......There is no law that says you can't plant a food plot, apple orchard, pear orchard, berry patch, corn field, wheat field, etc.....What you can't do is manipulate the habitat.....For instance, cut the corn or wheat and leave it on the ground.....It's also illegal to feed wild animals, despite just about everyone having a bird feeder out (turkeys like them).....I would think putting apples out would be considered feeding deer.....And here's the confusing part. F & W code says bait must be removed 10 days before hunting.....What?
I was hunting Palomar one time and in the middle of nowhere, there's a pile of corn......Deer tracks all over the place.....I was with another guy and we got out of the area.....What if a warden had found that pile and was watching it and I had shot a deer 300 yds away and hadn't seen the corn yet?.....I think they call this area of influence.
I know some guys that got tickets in the IV on the dove opener a number of years ago.....Apparently there was a pile of grain that been dumped out of a train.....They had no idea it was there and there were a bunch of folks surrounding it (they got tickets too).....Despite not even being close to the pile, they got their tickets none the less ( area of influence).
Here's the baiting law as written the F & W code book
http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#257_5
I was hunting Palomar one time and in the middle of nowhere, there's a pile of corn......Deer tracks all over the place.....I was with another guy and we got out of the area.....What if a warden had found that pile and was watching it and I had shot a deer 300 yds away and hadn't seen the corn yet?.....I think they call this area of influence.
I know some guys that got tickets in the IV on the dove opener a number of years ago.....Apparently there was a pile of grain that been dumped out of a train.....They had no idea it was there and there were a bunch of folks surrounding it (they got tickets too).....Despite not even being close to the pile, they got their tickets none the less ( area of influence).
Here's the baiting law as written the F & W code book
http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/current/mammalregs.aspx#257_5