Live Bait Dog Training

Indiana DNR Takes On ‘Live Bait’ Dog Training Suppliers
Officers arrest Henry County trapper said to ship wildlife to southern states

By Don Jordan

Posted 12/1/07

You would have had to be watching the news like a hawk earlier this month to discover Indiana’s latest wildlife scandal, but if you did hear about the arrest of a Henry Co. man for selling trapped animals to be used for “live bait dog training,” you were probably as disgusted as I was.

Fishing in Montana

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Judging by the huge number of Orvis-clad, brand-spanking new $1,000 fly rod-totin’ so-called fly-casters standing in all of my old fishing holes on Soda Butte Creek, you would never know an economic recession is sweeping the world.

I know. It doesn’t sound good. Gripes about all those people in “my” fishing holes makes me sound like one of those red-necked back-woodsers who hates all tourists and seasonal residents. You got me, dude. Mea culpa. Criticizing the newness and price tags on their gear (not to speak of their Mercedes SUVs) isn’t really fair. I don’t care. It isn’t that they don’t have a right to be here, or that they aren’t perfectly decent people, it is just that there are so darn many of them.