Posted By: gnuts
Random Question of the Day... - 12/08/07 04:39 AM
Can you hunt from a jon-boat???
Here's the deal. I hunt on a 200 acre property. There is a 40 acre lake that is literally in the dead center of the land. This is the only real body of water within about 5000 acres so it is a game magnet. There are three main game trails that lead to the lake and the mud at the water's edge is beat to death with tracks. Some of them are HUGE. Like many of the other posts I have read, deer are not coming to the feeders accept at night because there are STILL so many damn acorns on the ground. Anyways, you can't effectively hunt more than one of these trails at a time...unless you were on a boat in the middle of the lake. I've got a 10 foot Jon Boat with and anchor. If it is LEGAL, I'm thinking of anchoring down in the middle of the lake one evening and just waiting. I have toyed with this idea all season but I haven't tried it because I don't know if it's legal.
The TPWD website has this to say:
Vehicles: It is unlawful to hunt from or by means of motor-driven vehicles and land conveyances or aircraft of any kind, except paraplegics and single or double amputees of legs may hunt from stationary motor-driven vehicles or land conveyances. It is unlawful to use motor-driven land, water, or air conveyances or sailboats to concentrate, drive, rally, or stir up any migratory game bird.
The boat is not "motor-driven" it does not have a motor of any kind. I use a paddle to cross the lake and/or fish. As I read the guideline, my idea should be legal.
Please let me know your opinion.
Here's the deal. I hunt on a 200 acre property. There is a 40 acre lake that is literally in the dead center of the land. This is the only real body of water within about 5000 acres so it is a game magnet. There are three main game trails that lead to the lake and the mud at the water's edge is beat to death with tracks. Some of them are HUGE. Like many of the other posts I have read, deer are not coming to the feeders accept at night because there are STILL so many damn acorns on the ground. Anyways, you can't effectively hunt more than one of these trails at a time...unless you were on a boat in the middle of the lake. I've got a 10 foot Jon Boat with and anchor. If it is LEGAL, I'm thinking of anchoring down in the middle of the lake one evening and just waiting. I have toyed with this idea all season but I haven't tried it because I don't know if it's legal.
The TPWD website has this to say:
Vehicles: It is unlawful to hunt from or by means of motor-driven vehicles and land conveyances or aircraft of any kind, except paraplegics and single or double amputees of legs may hunt from stationary motor-driven vehicles or land conveyances. It is unlawful to use motor-driven land, water, or air conveyances or sailboats to concentrate, drive, rally, or stir up any migratory game bird.
The boat is not "motor-driven" it does not have a motor of any kind. I use a paddle to cross the lake and/or fish. As I read the guideline, my idea should be legal.
Please let me know your opinion.