Duck hunting and trolling

[keithm87]

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?

[C-Hawk]

I thought you needed to be anchored unless pursuing a cripple.

[keithm87]

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.

[Reelax]

Yea...... can we start shooting some of them funny lookin black ducks?

[keithm87]

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?