In Indiana its legal to bait. but is it legal to take corn and drop it in the woods next to the field or is that considered baiting?

It is not legal to bait in Indiana, read your hunting guide again. You can legally hunt over agricultural spillage, but try getting the Conservation Officer to believe that corn just happened to spill near your stand. Any product brought to the hunting area and left for an animal to consume is considered bait here, thecharge isn't worth it.

Same here in Vermont.

What do you think a game warden would think if he/she were watching you spread the corn on the ground?

Oh you can bet your ass there's been a game warden watching you do something illegally at least one out of ten times. They're slick, don't try to outsmart them, you'll lose. It's legal here in Alabama, but you can't hunt over it. I bait during the spring and summer with corn, just to get pictures of what kinda deer I have. I haven't had much success this summer and early fall with corn and mineral salts, no big bucks on camera, only a spike and some does. I usually have at least two small baskets and a nice 8 point or an older mature buck. Is there a so called "magic" bait that even the smartest deer can't resist? Peanut butter, soybean pellets, some other type of attractant? What do you use for attracting deer to a camera?

It isNOT legal to bait in Indiana!

in maine its illegal to hunt over the bait. you can bait outside of hunting season.

if it is legal to place a salt lick i would recommend that. i always have does and fawns coming to mine spring, summer and fall, and that will attract the bucks in the rut! once the snow comes the salt lick is vacant because they salt the roads here in minnesota, but until then it attracts the deer! althouh i must say the salt lick sees more action in the spring time.

also look into and see if those grasses are legal to plant near your stand. i have never tried them, but everyone that i have talked to that has says it works good.

i really don't think you have to bait with grains to get a deer if you ask me. the salt lick really isn't necisisary but i like to catch deer on my game cam on the off season and i havnt had much luck just setting it up ona deer trail.

once gun season starts thebucks will be running for their lives and are not going to stop and eat some corn or lick some salt!

no bait here, just the fields were bait comes from