"They love pears."

"i put pears in the area i hunt and had deer all over them"

I've had the same experience. I used to hunt some property that the owner wanted me to spread loads of bait for him on a couple of his own spots ebery time I was hunting there.
Out of curiousity I used to keep track of what the deer seemed to prefer. They would eat the pears forst, no matter what the smorgasbord was. The pears went first.