The people who own the land next to me started the season by throwing out one bag of bait. By the middle of October, when nothing happened to them, they were bringing it in by the pickup load. It's happening all over. The lack of enforcement just got other people to start baiting, too. They were mad because they saw other people getting an unfair advantage, and nothing happened.
Hunters elsewhere can have five gallons of bait at a time.
That's not because the DNR doesn't recognize that some people are violating the ban. It's a serious political problem in that area. DNR officers say the ban is so unpopular in the TB zone that elected prosecutors are reluctant to file charges. Some prosecutors have told the DNR that before they'll go to court, the agency must have a watertight case against a blatant violater. DNR officers have zeroed in on some big violaters, among them hunt clubs that in the past brought in bait by the dump-truckload.