I have the same DNR as you do. I guess we have to find a Court of Appeals case that defines "In the vicinity of" to determine how close one can hunt to a food plot. The regs clearly state that you cannot pile up a bunch of pumpkins and hunt over them, but it isn't very clear as to how far away from a food plot you have to be in order to be legal about it.
I am not a big believer in hunting over bait, but I do believe in being able to plant something somewhere on your property in order to keep deer in the general area. The whole question being, as I stated above, what vicinity means.
