Question for everyone:
Do you ever bring your shotgun out during duck season? The law is fairly clear that the boat can’t be under way and on when you shoot a duck, but time and again we encounter flocks in range, and it seems it’s as simple as kicking into reverse for a second to end progress and then shutting the motor off before firing a shot.
Obviously I can’t run up on them at speed, and can’t intentionally troll toward them, but if they fly over seems like some added fun.
Thoughts?
Duck hunting and trolling
Re: Duck hunting and trolling
I thought you needed to be anchored unless pursuing a cripple.
Re: Duck hunting and trolling
This is what the law says
“From or by means of any motor boat or sail boat unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sail furled, and its progress therefrom has ceased.“
I know people who drift rivers in canoes for them, which is legal.
“From or by means of any motor boat or sail boat unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sail furled, and its progress therefrom has ceased.“
I know people who drift rivers in canoes for them, which is legal.
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Re: Duck hunting and trolling
Yea...... can we start shooting some of them funny lookin black ducks?
Matt B
Re: Duck hunting and trolling
That is something I can’t understand, the migratory bird treaty oversees cormorants and ducks, so why are ducks legal to shoot but not cormorants?