RE: baiting
Legal in Fla. on privite land. When I was in a club we did it on every plot we had. Then sat in a shooting house. Saw lots of deer. You still needed to put in LOTS of time to kill a decent deer.
The woods in the south are way different than the woods in the Mid West or NE. Acres upon Acres of planted pines, no Ag fields in Hunting club areas or on the public lands. Deer Move, Bed and eat Anywhere / Everywhere. A food plot or feeder down here is like a river bottom or pinch point in the mid-west.