While I can but don' t bait, I say whatever floats your boat and is legal fine by me. I will have to disagree that you won' t shoot a good deer over bait, having worked in the outfitting industry and have many buddies who either still do or own their own camps, I know for a fact good deer are harvested annually over bait in my neck of the woods. In Saskatchewan 95% of outfitting employs baiting techniques and most of you know what kind of deer our outfitters take down on an annual basis...proof in itself baiting will produce good quality bucks. However or a big but is solid homework, scouting and planning play a key role to hauling in brutes on a yearly basis. While plopping a bait in a general travel area will attract deer, placing a bait in a safety zone that large bucks frequent will attract not only small deer, does and fawns but them same bucks to check baits under broad daylight. To be successful at baiting and harvest top notch deer it takes the same amount time, patience, knowledge and scouting as other techniques. As one who knows it certainly isn' t the easiest way to hunt and I really don' t think guys who take animals over baits are that much less of hunters (in general..meaning the ones who truly take the time and effort to do it properly). Again I don' t guide anymore or hunt over bait but have a versed knowledge of the practice and work ethic it requires in my area to be successful on trophy class whitetails and as such it ain' t as easy as one thinks.

I mentioned it once before but if you want to hunt employing bait fine by me, everybody has their opinion and techniques that elude to success...far be it for me to point my finger or look down my nose at a fellow hunter doing it legally, enjoying success & time spent outdoors.

PS: When baiting is employed in high deer density areas where the chance of disease spread (CWD, etc) is high than I would have to agree that baiting should be banned. Any practice hunters use can lead to herd health issues or damage than it is in the best interest to remove or ban that technique. Here in our province CWD has reared its ugly head in areas where deer have become over populated and see limited hunting pressure (mostly farmland in the south west) and in this case I would frown upon any individual who would bait with the knowledge that this could further promote such spread or cases. As a sportsman I think part of our responsibilty is to respect and protect the resource that we so dearly love to chase..part and parcel a sportsman must be a conservationist & educator to ensure our resource will be their for generations to come.

Good luck and have a safe season