Spot and stalk is really hard. I don't know how other states do bait site registering. But folks who have had registered bait sites the previous year, get first dibs on registering their previous bait sites for the following year. Good bait sites can stay in the same family for decades, which makes it difficult for others to hunt into blocks and blocks of locked in bait sites in good areas. Might be a factor, Donno.
