Guessing there will be a drop in whitatail archers

[kodiak06]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

All baiting is ILLEGAL no matter the reason

[LDennis24]

Baiting is illegal, disposing of unwanted alfalfa and old grain contaminated with bugs or moisture on your own property is not. 

[Rigby416]

You're missing the point....The more deer and elk not taken by hunters will feed the Wolves and Grizzley's they are importing into the state.

[hunter399]

Baiting is illegal, disposing of unwanted alfalfa and old grain contaminated with bugs or moisture on your own property is not. 

That's what I keep hearing from other folks.
Picked up one apple tree the other day,kinda spending my salt money on fruit tree.

[Ridgeratt]

How long before the apple tree is productive? I think I will try this. Maybe a little bigger and spread out.

[nwwanderer]

They will eat it all this year, protect it!!!

[LDennis24]

If you plant apple trees North of Spokane anywhere, protect the trunk of the tree with a wrap of some sort. The deer will either strip the bark and eat it in winter or they will rub off velvet on your apple tree and kill it that way. Good healthy apple trees bought from a nursery should produce in the first year even. Don't buy fruit trees with any black coloring on the leaves anywhere and don't buy fruit trees with dead black wilted branches. Even tiny branches that you think can be cut off. They have a disease and it will spread to your other trees. If you can't water them for the first few dry summers and they won't be in moist ground then they are going to die FYI.

[BLDtraLR]

First move the grouse opener to the 15th instead of the 1st like it has been for 50 years. HOW did that work
Just screwed the bowhunters . I see no difference in brood population.
Now this.   Let's just take all the FUN away from bowhunting.
I only hunt over bait on 1 spot because i can not because i'm told not to. Made things FUN.
I did put apples out in front of cams because IT WAS FUN.
Like was said there is a reason we have GMU's  restrict it where it was found and out lying area's for starters then see where it goes. Statewide band is just stupid
THESE PEOPLE RUNNING THIS SHOW ARE IDIOTS.
I sure hope i don't drop an apple or a rice krispie treat out of my pack on accident anywhere next to my cams  OR shoot at a deer 5 miles in and there just happens to be a grouse standing under him and a miss judge the yardage and shoot low  on sept 1ST 
I'm NOT A POACHER but i still like to have FUN
GOOD JOB FUN WRECKERS

[OutHouse]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

All baiting is ILLEGAL no matter the reason

Thanks for the update. Well, I can still get lots of pics but I will have to place the cameras more strategically.

[TeacherMan]

I used to focus on natural baits when I hunted during the early season in Washington. Alfalfa field corners in a tree stand always seemed to be the spot for me.

[huntnnw]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

then there wasnt a bruiser buck in the vicinity of your sites. I call a bruiser is 160 plus and I couldnt even begin to count all the bucks Ive gotten on cam. Then to multiply that by all my friends who are diehard whitetail guys and I could post hundreds of big buck photos at salt or bait.

[hunter399]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

then there wasnt a bruiser buck in the vicinity of your sites. I call a bruiser is 160 plus and I couldnt even begin to count all the bucks Ive gotten on cam. Then to multiply that by all my friends who are diehard whitetail guys and I could post hundreds of big buck photos at salt or bait.

I agree
Always a few decent WT out there.
Not only was trail cams fun and exciting.
Kinda my off season exercise,excuses to get out and explore.
It's a real bummer on the bait ban.
I'll still try and setup a few cams ,minus the bait.
Nothing like it was before the ban,I'll be using a lot of info I got last year going forward.

[teal101]

Baiting is illegal, disposing of unwanted alfalfa and old grain contaminated with bugs or moisture on your own property is not. 

$10 says its going to read similar to the Gamebird regs and pretty much anything short of the grain naturally falling off the plant will be considered baiting.

https://www.eregulations.com/washington/hunting/game-bird/game-bird-baiting-regulations

[OutHouse]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

then there wasnt a bruiser buck in the vicinity of your sites. I call a bruiser is 160 plus and I couldnt even begin to count all the bucks Ive gotten on cam. Then to multiply that by all my friends who are diehard whitetail guys and I could post hundreds of big buck photos at salt or bait.

I am not so sure about that as applied to the area I hunt. I cam a quarter mile up the mountain would have really nice bucks, many like the ones you kill, but they don't seem to come down to the bait.   

[huntnnw]

I enjoyed getting pictures of deer by putting out salt and/or bait. However, I've never seen a bruiser whitetail near a bait site. It sounds to me that the CWD excuse is a subterfuge for another agenda. So is bait per se illegal regardless of intent? What if you are baiting solely to get pictures? Is that off the table or only if it is related to hunting?

then there wasnt a bruiser buck in the vicinity of your sites. I call a bruiser is 160 plus and I couldnt even begin to count all the bucks Ive gotten on cam. Then to multiply that by all my friends who are diehard whitetail guys and I could post hundreds of big buck photos at salt or bait.

I am not so sure about that as applied to the area I hunt. I cam a quarter mile up the mountain would have really nice bucks, many like the ones you kill, but they don't seem to come down to the bait.   

another thing with mature bucks is 200 yards could make all the difference in cam pics or none. People think you just dump something and whamo a huge whitetail just strolls in. In 30 plus years of hunting whitetails and what I call big bucks I have yet to kill or hunt a giant in the same area ever. The rarity of a 160 + buck in this region is hard to find and you gotta cover alot of ground to turn 1 up. I have access to some primo private ground 1k acres. In 10 years with extensive glassing, cams and hunting 1 buck in that time frame woulda grossed around 160 or so and that buck was last year. Every year there is 140-150 buck around,but its that next level that really is a needle in a haystack