First of all I want you to know my feelings on baiting. The way I look at baiting is the same way I look at steroids in baseball. In baseball if you take steroids it will make the game easier. However, you still have to be able to make solid contact with a 98 mph fastball. Give Rambo a bat and I doubt he can hit a ball 450 feet. With hunting, baiting will make it easier, however you still have to make the shot.

So if you are against bating please do not comment on this saying how it is wrong or anything like that. Because chances are you say you are against baiting, but you hunt over a food plot you planted earlier this spring or next to a farmers field. And don't say a food plot is different than baiting because it really is not. They are the same thing execpet I don't plant mine months in advance I just throw it on the ground.

Now to my question....

I am bowhunting in Michigan for my first time this season. I normally hunt in Indiana where baiting is illegal. It is legal in Michigan and I was looking into some baiting strategies. I live in Indiana and hunt about 4 hours north of me in Michigan so putting out food every day is not an option. I am going to do some scouting this weekend and put up some trail cams. I will go one more time before season to set up my tree stand after checking out what my cams caught. I have heard of a lot of people using just plain corn and carrots to bait but I feel if everyone else is doing that then I need something to set me apart and keep the deer coming back to me instead of the other piles....

SO...............

What tips or advice can you give me? Is there something I should use other than corn or carrots? I have a few things in mind, but I wanted to see what you guys think.

2 months till opening day!!!!!!