I don't hunt over bait here in California. I don't think we can, legally, but I have to check my regs to be sure...I hunted over feeders for the first time this year in Texas, at the Solana Ranch. I came home with tag soup. Easy? Slam Dunk? It wasn't in Texas. Can't speak for the rest of the places as I haven't hunted there.
My beef with baiting is the whole commercial aspect of the hunting shows on TV. Go to the store, buy a bag of whatever, and pile it out and watch the BIG BUCKS come in. Then shoot one. That is what is spoiling our kids, 'cuase our adults our buying into that and that's what's getting passed on! I hunted the same 3000 acre piece out here for almost 20 years. We puzzled out those blacktails, wore leather off our boots and fat off our bodies, and killed our fair share of nice animals. We lost access when my auntie sold, and now I'm doing the same thing on new properties. One thing I saw, on a shared lease, about 4000 acres, with great bucks on it, was a father and his two overwieght sons, doing laps on the road in his F250. Every time the wife and I walked out of our sets back to the truck this guy would pull up and groan about not seeing animals. If he could've bought a bag of whatever and piled out somewhere, he would've, so his sons wouldn't have had to walk to find where the deer were. It's sad.