Well, here in MD, baiting is legal. I do throw corn and apples out every once in a while, but out of the five deer I shot at that stand....none was eating off the bait pile. I do believe that the buck I harvested was because of the pile because the does concetrated around that bait pile EARLY in the morning....like 3:30 to 4 am......almost 100% of the time I would spook them off ( I am limited in hunting area, so hard to really put that bait pile in an area where I cant spook them).....but when they came back, they had a buck trailing em or was just walking the trail...thats it. I thought it was strange. But the does stayed around early in the morning to feed, so I believe the buck hung around because of that reason. But I never harvested a deer that was actually feeding from the bait pile.