I don`t believe baiting has ever been illegal in Michigan. It just took off in the late `70s when the compond bow came along and the numbers of bow hunters started to increase. Many bow hunters thought they needed to bait to get the deer close enough for a shot. Then it became a competition, where you had to bait to see deer because so many of the other hunters were baiting and drawing the deer to their areas.

Now we have a whole generation of hunters who have never hunted any other way.