Flooded Corn: Senator Calls USFW To Conduct Formal Study

[Fromm]

The ban will not be on flooding a corn field, it will be on hunting a flooded corn field. 
You folks think a ban on hunting over “bait” will stop water from touching corn are nuts.   

Corn fields will still be flooded, blinds will be moved accordingly and the public land hunter will still be bitching. 
We might even see some rice fields pop up and blinds over looking them.   Some rice should grown decently on the east side.

Artificially flooding a properly harvested corn field is way different than flooding an unharvested field. Field corn produces 6 tons per acre.

[92xj]

The ban will not be on flooding a corn field, it will be on hunting a flooded corn field. 
You folks think a ban on hunting over “bait” will stop water from touching corn are nuts.   

Corn fields will still be flooded, blinds will be moved accordingly and the public land hunter will still be bitching. 
We might even see some rice fields pop up and blinds over looking them.   Some rice should grown decently on the east side.

Artificially flooding a properly harvested corn field is way different than flooding an unharvested field. Field corn produces 6 tons per acre.

Flooding of unharvested corn fields will still take place.    Hunting those fields will “stop”, and shift to other places on the property, but the flooding of standing corn will continue to happen to keep the birds around.   

[Fromm]

If it were made illegal to hunt over unharvested intentionally flooded corn you then would not be able to plant and flood due to it influencing the ducks. A prime example of this is hunters are not allowed to hunt in close proximity to the grain elevators on the Columbia and snake rivers because of the influence they have on them

[92xj]

You’re not getting it.  But that’s ok. 
When or if this ever happens, we’ll revisit this thread and I guarantee you, there will be standing corn fields with water in them.   Not saying they will be hunted, but there will be water filled fields.   

[Fromm]

You’re not getting it.  But that’s ok. 
When or if this ever happens, we’ll revisit this thread and I guarantee you, there will be standing corn fields with water in them.   Not saying they will be hunted, but there will be water filled fields.   

I do get it.  If flooded unharvested corn was outlawed then under current area of influence laws you would not be allowed to hunt around it. Look at the buffer fish and game put around the grain elevator at wallula.

[johnsc6]

Hopefully you know if this gets traction in will most likely end all dry land field hunting.... We don't have corn compound problems here on the west side and we still have 1/2 the mallards of 10 years ago.. They are dead, and the only reason USFW or WDFW doesnt do anything about it is Revenue  $$$

A ban on flooded corn would have zero effect on dry field hunting...except to improve it dramatically. This would simply close a loophole in current baiting regulations. Already illegal to dump corn in water - this would make it illegal to artificially dump water in unharvested corn. Ducks feeding in dry corn would then need to fly to water, much of which is accessible to public hunting. It's the corn+water combo that's the problem.

And you have faith that when the government gets done changing the rules it will only be artificially flooded fields?  If so you have more faith there ability to manage than I do... I dont hunt artificially flooded corn, but Im not for giving the government any reason to target any hunting methods. Bear baiting, hound hunting, bow hunting any of it, Seems slippery to me