Fined $30,000 for baiting

[RUGER]

This was in Mississippi but WOW !
I would be about half scared to hunt around corn. LOL

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/spor ... /77110970/

Snippet from the article:

According to a media statement from the U.S. Attorneys Office, Northern District of Mississippi, Gene Stock, 36, had planted corn in a duck impoundment in Washington County. During the 2014-15 season, the statement said Stock used an all-terrain vehicle to retrieve downed ducks and to go to and from his blinds and moving blinds from one location to another. In doing so, he illegally knocked down corn stalks and scattered grain.

 

[Cache]

My buddy had something along the same lines happen last year in Arkansas. Had a lease in a soybean field and the game warden said the same thing. Thing is he was an hour away hunting with me when the warden decided to give the guys hunting a ticket. He left and drove up to see what the fuss was about and got a ticket himself.

 

[RUGER]

He left and drove up to see what the fuss was about and got a ticket himself.

How did HE get a ticket????

 

[Cache]

Game warden "witnessed" someone the day before driving through the beans. He admitted to being the only one there so the others would not be fined or charged. Everyone else's tickets were dismissed, he lawyered up and is fighting his last I heard.
His dad was one of the people hunting that day and it was only his second time to duck hunt. If not for that he wouldn't have gone.

 

[RUGER]

Wow.
That's crazy.

 

[Cache]

The whole situation smelled fishy. Game wardens went and searched their clubhouse that was 15 minutes away looking for evidence, found nothing.

 

[TheLBLman]

On one hand I'm glad to see game laws taken seriously, but on the other, we have way to many laws.

 

[scn]

If I had to make a guess, I'd say an aerial view of that field likely showed a very deliberate attempt to knock down corn (probably donuts in the standing corn). I don't know of any officer that would try to make a case on some slight, inadvertent knocking off of some grain. But, you take a different angle/path every time you go to the blind, move the blind knocking over a bunch of corn, bulldoze across corn rows "looking" for a duck knocking down or off a bunch of grain, then, yes, there are issues. Waterfowl are EXTREMELY vulnerable to baiting, and such often leads to some gross over the limits as well.

It sounds like a one side of the story deal to me.