The articel doesn't suprise me, I have grown up in Texas hunting my whole life, where it is legal to use "bait". In my 20+ years of hunting I agree with the article, your mature or shooter deer will normally stay clear of bait sites during daylight hours, at least thats whatI have learned. Today I hunt on a ranch in west Texas and we do supplement feed year round, however we do not hunt anywhere close to the sites and we get really good pics in the daylight around these feed sites (this is a good tool to let us know what is on the ranch). You can throw diggs all you want towards Texas for feedingbut a lot of places in Texas the supplemental feeding is needed, we don't have rich farm lands and ag crops near by to hunt the deer on their way to. The region I am in there is litterally not any type of ag crops or anything for the deer including grassy plains, it is just rocks and cedar for the most part and the supplemental feeding helps the deer herd to reach it's maximum potential as well as help the herd health!!! As for hunting it some on the ranch do and some don't, as for me being I am strictly a bowhunter most of the year (unless my daughter goes with me) I hunt off the beaten path on trails and staging areas....The bait (supplemental feed)has it's purpose and as said before your most mature bucks aren't going to hit the bait in the daylight anyhow....