We bait in the UP, just kinda always have. I enjoy watching the deer . I now hunt IL as well, there is no real difference between the cut corn and my corn pile at home. We can also bait bears in MI, which I think makes sense, because I'm with GMMAT, why one and not the other. We see more bears than deer in early bow with the bait anyway.I also do not care if someone baits or doesn't, especially in the woods of the UP, where baiting is pretty much the way it's done, if you don't bait you are in the minority. I will say though that no matter how much corn I put out at home, I've never seen the number of deer I will see in a cut corn field down here, regardless of densities or deer.