Will Ohio every ban baiting deer?

They just made it legal… I don't think baiting is a bad thing, I do think it needs to be regulated somehow.

Only time I would bait is by a camera to see what bucks I have in an area in the summer. But with today's camera technology you don't even need the deer to slow down anymore with the fast trigger speed. I would never kill a deer over bait but that's just me. Nothing wrong with it just not my style. And no I doubt it will ever become illegal in Ohio.

I don't feel Ohio DOW will make it illegal unless, heaven forbid, some type of disease kills off a lot of deer that was caused by group feedings(such as EHD).

Also, sort of on the same subject, if the deer herd is stable and doesn't drop to scarce populations, why would they ban baiting? They are only trying to keep a sustainable population balance.

What do yot meae their studys show it does not make a difference. Lol i doubt they will change and before my post gets blown out the water its their words not mine.
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CWD is the only reason I could ever see them changing it but that's even a pretty weak leg to stand on. Right now the deer are in herds larger than you'd probably ever see at a bait pile so baiting them isn't going to get them any closer than they are now. That being said.....I hope they do ban it. I'm not a fan but for my own reasons and not theirs.

If they do it would be fairly hard to control. There is a big loophole in this which is food plots. It will stop those that aren't allowed to plant on the land they hunt and those that just don't want to do it but those that do still have a way. They would have to do quite a bit of work to outlaw the planting of deer specific food plots, and if they did you just have to look for farmland. I don't think they are going to ever tell the farmer he can't go sit in the back corner of his corn and hunt. I started using mineral attractants this past year to attract deer to cams throughout the spring/summer and early bow season. Other than that I have used food plots designated for deer to use and AG fields to my advantage to harvest deer. I don't see baiting as a big issue, I think people just need to use some sense when doing it. I have plenty of natural attractions that bring groups of deer into just as much as I ever had with minerals, food plots and AG fields.

alaskangiles said:

They just made it legal….

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Not true...unless you're speaking in biblical terms.

Funny you should ask I recieved a survey from the DNR via email and the last section was about baiting since CWD has showed up in the state. They wanted to know if I supported regulating bait. I selected "strongly support" hunting bait. I dont know if they would make it like turkey where you cant even hunt the area or if it would be more of sitting on a fedder or bait pile. And someone mentioned a picked corn field. They are talking about a site specific bait like a feeder or corn pile. A grain field and food plot are not considered bait, they dont want the deer all to congergate at a small place, you increse the odds of them spreading disease that way.

mrex said:

Not true...unless you're speaking in biblical terms.

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One time I will say this. I will not get in a measuring contest with you on everything. I see you do this with a couple other guys on here and I think it's childish. Do not make me part of it! I don't care if you think your better than me and know more than me. I can live with that, so I suggest you find a way to do the same.

If you could delete this after you get my point, thanks.

My recollection of the ODNR's wording is baiting is legal but ineffective. The only way this can be true is if the hunter success ratio of the totality of baiters is poor. Could be that way. There are a ton of bow hunters who cannot hit a barn. Maybe they bait more. They use the word, ineffective, but don't confuse that with " does not work" because corn baiting for deer is profoundly effective for drawing deer to a small place on a regular basis. I could kill a deer a day over corn if there were enough deer. (btw: always has been legal so they didn't just make it legal) .

bakerboy said:

My recollection of the ODNR's wording is baiting is legal but ineffective. The only way this can be true is if the hunter success ratio of the totality of baiters is poor. Could be that way. There are a ton of bow hunters who cannot hit a barn. Maybe they bait more. They use the word, ineffective, but don't confuse that with " does not work" because corn baiting for deer is profoundly effective for drawing deer to a small place on a regular basis. I could kill a deer a day over corn if there were enough deer. (btw: always has been legal so they didn't just make it legal) .

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Incorrect. It was legalized within the last 20 years, perhaps within the last 15, I'm not certain of the year but it was since Mike Tonkovich started as the deer program director, and that was in 1996. I only remember because I knew a group of fellas that hunted over bait in MI every fall and when it was legalized in Ohio they were extremely excited about it. They still hunt over bait to this day.

brock ratcliff said:

Incorrect. It was legalized within the last 20 years, perhaps within the last 15, I'm not certain of the year but it was since Mike Tonkovich started as the deer program director, and that was in 1996. I only remember because I knew a group of fellas that hunted over bait in MI every fall and when it was legalized in Ohio they were extremely excited about it. They still hunt over bait to this day.

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Ok. Too far back for my memory.

alaskangiles said:

One time I will say this. I will not get in a measuring contest with you on everything. I see you do this with a couple other guys on here and I think it's childish. Do not make me part of it! I don't care if you think your better than me and know more than me. I can live with that, so I suggest you find a way to do the same.

If you could delete this after you get my point, thanks.

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Measuring contest? Baiting has always been legal, just not as popular as today.

bakerboy said:

(btw: always has been legal so they didn't just make it legal) .

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Correct.

brock ratcliff said:

Incorrect. It was legalized within the last 20 years, perhaps within the last 15, I'm not certain of the year but it was since Mike Tonkovich started as the deer program director, and that was in 1996. I only remember because I knew a group of fellas that hunted over bait in MI every fall and when it was legalized in Ohio they were extremely excited about it. They still hunt over bait to this day.

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As usual…wrong.

Coonie must really be sick not to chime in on this one! As long as I can remember......about 50 years, baiting has always been legal on private ground. And yes that was before Tonk was around....in fact that was before Bob Stoll was around.

Bawana said:

Coonie must really be sick not to chime in on this one! As long as I can remember......about 50 years, baiting has always been legal on private ground. And yes that was before Tonk was around....in fact that was before Bob Stoll was around.

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Since when has being wrong ever stopped Brock from taking an unfounded jab at Mike Tonkovich?

No way the ODNR outlaws baiting...

You guys are all a holes to one another. Always looking for errors in the other guys thinking.

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BuckeyeHutch said:

No way the ODNR outlaws baiting...

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I would have disagreed with you a couple years ago but it does not seem likely now. At one time, the planned response to CWD included the banning of baiting and supplemental feeding but it doesn't appear that's going to happen.

If i knew how to post new post i would. Any how freind of mine seen a taged buck monday runing lose standn by the road monday here in guernsey county standing by the candy shack out of 265 should the dow be called? Not tryn to change subject
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