Originally posted by TEXAS715:
This is what I have told by the wardon.
Ducks on the other hand I have been told that you can't plant to attrach them for hunting purposes.
That warden is either terribly mis-informed (and plain wrong) or a card carrying member of PETA.
The ONLY crop that you can't hunt over, provided that you don't manipulate your crops in any artifical manner, is Japanese millet. If you read the regs ... here in TX, Millet can NOT be hunted over until the SECOND season after planting.
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http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/season/2006/waterfowl/methods/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A hunter MAY hunt any migratory game bird: :
over standing crops, standing flooded crops and flooded harvest crops;
at any time over natural vegetation that has been manipulated.
Natural vegetation does not include planted millet. However,
planted millet that grows on its own in subsequent years after the planting is considered natural vegetation;
where seeds or grains have been scattered as a result of normal agricultural practice;
on or over a normal soil stabilization practice;
on or over lands or areas where seeds or grains have been scattered solely as a result of a normal agricultural practice or pre-harvest manipulation of an agricultural crop, except waterfowl and cranes may not be hunted where grain or other feed has been distributed or scattered as the result of:
pre-harvest manipulation of an agricultural crop; or
livestock feeding;
over crops or natural vegetation where grain has been inadvertently scattered as a result of entering or leaving a hunting area, placing decoys or retrieving downed birds;
using natural vegetation or crops to conceal a blind, provided that if crops are used to conceal a blind, no grain or other feed is exposed, deposited, distributed or scattered in the process.
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A hunter MAY NOT:hunt migratory birds with the aid of bait, or on or over any baited area;
hunt over any baited area until 10 days after all baiting materials have been removed;
hunt waterfowl or cranes over manipulated planted millet, unless the millet was planted not less than one year prior to hunting ;
hunt waterfowl or cranes over crops that have been manipulated, unless the manipulation is a normal agricultural post-harvesting manipulation in accordance with official recommendations of State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
No person may place or direct the placement of bait on or adjacent to an area for the purpose of causing, inducing or allowing any person to take or attempt to take any migratory game bird by the aid of baiting on or over the baited area.
or
livestock feeding;
over crops or natural vegetation where grain has been inadvertently scattered as a result of entering or leaving a hunting area, placing decoys or retrieving downed birds;
using natural vegetation or crops to conceal a blind, provided that if crops are used to conceal a blind, no grain or other feed is exposed, deposited, distributed or scattered in the process.
A hunter MAY NOT:
hunt migratory birds with the aid of bait, or on or over any baited area;
hunt over any baited area until 10 days after all baiting materials have been removed;
hunt waterfowl or cranes over manipulated planted millet, unless the millet was planted not less than one year prior to hunting;
hunt waterfowl or cranes over crops that have been manipulated, unless the manipulation is a normal agricultural post-harvesting manipulation in accordance with official recommendations of State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. No person may place or direct the placement of bait on or adjacent to an area for the purpose of causing, inducing or allowing any person to take or attempt to take any migratory game bird by the aid of baiting on or over the baited area.