RAINY RIVER HUNTING

[KATOMAN]

We plan on making a fishing trip to the Rainy in Oct. A friend claims he can pass shoot ducks while we are fishing the river. I know we can't be operatiing the motor but what else would prevent one from doing this? We would be on the Minnesota side. 

[WoodChuck]

? ??? what happens if you bag a fowel and it lands on de canadian side of the river ah. ??? ???? ???

[Outdoors Junkie]

Send the dog after it? :)

[KATOMAN]

make a long cast...........

[Dr.Bob]

I think you (your boat) have to be partially covered in vegetation and anchored? or tied off to something solid in order to shoot from a boat.

[JohnWester]

I think you (your boat) have to be partially covered in vegetation and anchored? or tied off to something solid in order to shoot from a boat.

This is true.  You need to be somehow concealed by natural cover (even if that cover is one reed) to legally be hunting.  The exception is when you are pursuing a wounded bird.
good catch dr. bob.

[Dr.Bob]

Thanks BFG.

It has been a while since I studied the laws, but I used to know most of the fish and game laws by heart.? Thanks to my soon to be X I have been out of it for a while and am not up to date on it anymore.? And with the way regs have been changing so much, I do not dare to commit to hardly any of them.

Boy catching hawgs on the Rainy and picking up the smoke pole once in a while to take out a duck or a goose sounds like a heck of a good time though.

[GRIZ]

I think you (your boat) have to be partially covered in vegetation and anchored  or tied off to something solid in order to shoot from a boat.

This is true.  You need to be somehow concealed by natural cover (even if that cover is one reed) to legally be hunting.  The exception is when you are pursuing a wounded bird.
good catch dr. bob.

I didn't realize you had to be concealed by natural vegetion. We've all seen the duck boats covered in camo and grass, I figured the reason for that was for when there was no natural cover.

As far as the single reed bit it's still at the discression of the CO and he could issue a ticket if they thought deemable. You could fight it but it prolly wouldn't work and that would set the precedent for more detailed regs.

Myself I don't understand why it's not legal to camo ur boat and ancor in the middle of the lake with ur decoys out.