Unfortunately, my experience with that particular branch of law enforcement has produced similar results. About 2/3s of them are knuckleheads.

I kind of look at that sort of thing as habitat improvement. Brush hogging it prolly goes over the lone to baiting, only in my opinion of course. Having been an avid duck hunter most of my life I tend to view things through that lens and is prolly why I think that way. My only experience with doves was as a kid shooting them off of high line wires with a 22. We usually hunted some ponds on the season opener but that was mainly in hopes of bumping into some teal.

Anyway, I have know a lot of folks, and have done it myself, that have planted wild rice and millet and other stuff around duck waters. I never understood why that wasn't baiting but it isn't. If you grown corn though, and bush hog it down, it is.

Go figure.

BKb