Personally, I would probably do it and take a chance. The reason being is that I don't think this is illegal.

You can plant a food plot and hunt it. You could plant a food plot in the exact location you're talking about and there would be no issue. What if you hunted a farm and the deer were coming into the water troughs out in the pasture to drink. Could you shoot them at those? I don't see why not.

Can you shoot deer in a field if a farmer has big bales of hay laying in the field awaiting the winter? Its a good spot to find mulies out west - not sure about here.



Still hoping you get an answer to this - but I can't see where water would be considered baiting.