Can I
 

Shoot a duck out of my boat on Big Lake if my motor is killed???

They had two big groups of Bufflehead ducks with lots of Drakes....could of got some good shots of them on the water.....

had one group land 30 yards away from us...about 15 of them

I know tomorrow morning when I go back fishing in the Fog I could smash some birds

Public water...shouldn't be anything wrong with it.

Motor has to be shut down and out of the water.

X 2......that includes trolling motor.

I speak from experience. All forward (or backward) motion has to be stopped before you shoot. Cost me $375 for four coots even though my motor was tilted up and out of the water.

So you can't be drifting with wind and shoot? Don't people drift hunt rivers all the time?

Gotta be anchored. The boat has to be connected to the bottom some kind of way. Power pole will work.

should be able good as long as your stopped and motor 's' out the water. never read of being anchored to the bottom but they might mess with you because your in a bay boat and not a hunting rig.

Reason sink boxes are illegal is because they are suspended and not attatched to the bottom. Call the wlf. They will be able to help you more than us.

Just go shoot some and toss your anchor out. Simple as that.

Calledwl@f....motor out water....not power at all to cause boat to move


That's it.....nothing about being anchored

Im pretty sure the law reads something like : you can hunt from a boat as long as the motor is out of the water and all motion as a result from the motor has been stopped

I talked to a warden on the phone...even told him what I wanted to do...

Told him I have been fishing an area in the am and they have had some buffleheads their.... Told him were I was and that not s signal boat has been in that area ..... I said I just want a bufflehead



He said make sure gun is never loaded until motor stopped and out og water .... No method of any kind to held you move...... Etc trolling motor


He was laughing and said...man never has someone this honest or straight about what he wanted.... He said..you want to eat tbem??? I said not really.. I just want one male to mount. .. But I will eat them if I get extra.... He laughed and said good luck... I might go try myself never shot one of those ....and I saw two canvas backs also

No method of any kind to help you move? Does that include wind?

Don't think they will have much wind in the a.m.

I just hope I don't scare the **** out of someone in the fog...its gOing to be loud

Out of all the answers, I think Meaux Fishing is the most accurate. When I went to court, the judge ruled that although my motor was out of the water, my forward motion (as a result of my motor propulsion just prior to me pulling my motor up) had not stopped. I argued that while that may have been true, it was the wind that caused me to continue moving. As Judge Judy might say, "sorry".

As far as what might or might not have been true, the agent was positioned on a point in full view of where I was and observed the whole "capital crime". Hard to argue with an agent of the court.

Lesson learned.

Lol, I bet you shoot and then hear some motors crank up and haul ***!!! Good way to stop potlickin.

I would hunt Joe's cove but W's has the area covered with waders now thanks to his post.

Lol!!!!

Is that were they are????? Haven't seen many around last few days........