I mean, that is how you hunt bears mostly. You leave food plots to bring them in and keep them coming back. Some guys use dogs to run them up trees. Id wager less than 10% of all bear hunters ever, walked them down. Hunting a fellow predator species, one that is better at everything in the forest than we can ever be, is near impossible for most hunters. They can smell you upwards of 5-6 miles away. If a bear doesnt want to be seen, he wont be.
Hunting over bait isn't hunting, imo. Only justification is eradication program or actual shtf scenario and you need to be exceptionally efficient.
Otherwise fairchase all the way.
I don't hunt bears because I don't like bear meat, but push come to shove I'd definitely sit a gut pile, but that ain't hunting.
Neither is a tree stand over a corn pile, imo. But I'm a western hunter, you guys in the Midwest have tiny places to hunt usually. Out here we go where their food is, find em, close distance, and shoot.
Then hike 12 miles back to the truck, lol.