Planting chufa is baiting?

CRC

Old Mossy Horns
Each year approximately two acres of chufa is planted specifically for the benefit of
turkeys and turkey hunters. Chufa is a small, nut-like tuber that is relished by turkeys and is the
most popular crop planted for turkeys. Because of restrictions imposed by baiting laws, no
plantings specific to turkeys (chufa) are established until after the spring turkey season. Planting
of chufa prior to or during turkey season could potentially give an unfair advantage to turkey
hunters and is prohibited

From this WRC document page 141

http://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Hunting/GameLand-Plans/Brunswick-ColumbusCo-GLMP-DRAFT.pdf
 

nccatfisher

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
Of course it is baiting, that is why if you are a NWTF member you can buy it at a reduced price through them because they condone baiting.:rolleyes:
 

CRC

Old Mossy Horns
Of course it is baiting, that is why if you are a NWTF member you can buy it at a reduced price through them because they condone baiting.:rolleyes:

Just found it interesting the WRC cited baiting laws as a reason they cannot and will not plant chufa in April or May
 
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nccatfisher

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
Or possibly the person that wrote that publication person beliefs on the matter possibly.

OR possibly, they thought that it may actually be like baiting if they planted during the season because they would be out there scratching for the actual seed they had planted. My observation has been this. If the turkeys where you have planted it have not been familiar with chufa they will not bother it at all, it won't be touched. Once mature if hogs get in it they will find it or if you go out in the field and manipulate it yourself, take a pitchfork or potato rake and expose just a small place and turn them up. THEN it is on, they will take over from there and annihilate the whole field. And in fact it is illegal to manipulate the field like this once planted in SC and hunt over it.
 
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oldest school

Old Mossy Horns
it's as ncactfisher says in relation to the link.

in terms of the thread title,it's better than bait. it's in a league of it's own. LOL.
 

Eric Revo

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
If you spread the nuts on the ground during turkey season you're doing the same thing as spreading corn on the ground, even if you throw a bit of dirt over some of them. Pretty simple to understand that concept.
That stuff will come up in the spring....actually comes up really well once the ground warms up in the late spring. It's a nut sedge so it's pretty hardy once you get things right.
I can't imagine anyone baiting with it, the stuff is unreal expensive compared to wheat or corn.
 
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