Definately a food plot. You can do it fairly cheap with a mower, a tiller, a rake, a broadcaster, and some seed. I usually spend about 40 bucks on a 50 pd bag of winter wheat, oats, and fertilizer. I cut the plot with my mower, till it, seed it, cover the seed with a rake and am good to go.

It takes me an afternoon. It's a bowhunting plot so it's only about 40 yards from my treestand at the furtherst spot, but it works. I saw more deer over that thing the first year I did it than I had from the same tree 5 years previously.

You might also see if a mineral block is considered bait. I bet...unfortunately for you it is.