Humans were not blessed with superior strength, speed, eyesight, claws, teeth or camouflage that other predators were. You want to know what hunting is? It's putting food in your gullet with any tool you have available to you. Our one tool that makes up for every other "lacking" attribute in the wild, is our intelligence. Use your head, and do as you see fit by your own time, fiscal, and physical constraints to put food in the freezer. Everything else you do, is as they say, icing on the cake.
Bait is one more tool that we came up with to feed ourselves and our families when hunting was required to survive. Are you going to go back 100 years ago and tell my great grandfather that he wasn't a hunter, because he fed his family by baiting rabbits into traps? Deer to a corn field or favored oak tree? Fish to a hook with some other fish on it?
To anyone who would say so, I say Grow up, and stop trying to measure your own penis against everyone else's.