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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 240803" data-attributes="member: 3373">I also question the benefit of banning bait. I have hunted over bait as well as going without a bait pile. My experience is that there were lots of does and fauns using the bait, not often that a buck came in to feed. Unless they were feeding at night. Is there a reason a bigger buck is affected more by CWD than other deer? How do you prevent the yarding up of deer during the winter? When deer get into big groups during the winter that is a much bigger group than those around a small pile of grain. I never used a bigger pile than about a bucket full so it was mostly 2 or 3 deer coming in.  Wondering whether banning bait is more of a "feel good" rule because at least I'm doing something. Would you also ban food plots? If you do, would it then be illegal to hunt a clover or alfalfa field? Making it illegal to hunt the edge of a sunflower filed prior to harvest?CWD is a problem without an easy answer. Then again, how big of a problem is it? Some states have had CWD for years and it doesn't seem to have a huge impact on the number of deer. For awhile moose suffered from what was commonly called 'brain worm', not sure of the scientific name, but now you don't hear so much of it. Kind of ran its course.If baiting is banned it really won't affect me at all, just wondering how much of an affect it will have on the deer. Not a big fan of rules that are put in place with no evidence of benefit. The times I have hunted over bait was when we had a big excess of deer and I was in more of a herd reduction mode and hunting does. It offered close shots and very clean kills. On the land I hunted back then the landowner(s) hunted big bucks. Then never hunted over bait unless it was some natural food such as a patch of unharvested beans or corn and that wasn't common.</blockquote>

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