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Not sure Dave is in business due to health issues. Northport Nailer wild things spoons are the same blank coupled with the best paint job in the business. Haegens has the blanks if you need different sizes and will do basic paint jobs. They usually have a minimum size order required to do paint jobs.

It is entirely up to individual towns. If towns want bow only areas, a proposition could be voted on. There have been baited hunts at night in Amherst done by local police officers. Not sure if they still are conducting these shoots as remarkably a 12 gauge slug ended up going through the second story bedroom where a child was sleeping during one of the deer shoots near a neighborhood (I have no idea)

https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/poachers-posed-as-female-wildlife-photographer-to-score-big-buck-intel

You might have drifted by a rock. I can keep a small piece of worm 1.5’ off Lake Erie bottom (crawling with gobies), and not get touched

They breed multiple times per year. Extremely prolific. If you are seeing them in one place, they are probably everywhere. I will say that they don’t leave the cover of the bottom so if you get your bait up a little, you shouldn’t have trouble with them.

Thanks!