I have often worried about showing up to an area in the dark, hanging a stand, and then getting "busted" by a warden for hunting over something I had no way of knowing was there.
Oddly, I've never had such a scenario.
I have. Kinda-sorta-almost.
Climbed up into a stand on public land - MN law is "public land, public stand". This particular stand was an abandoned loc-on bolted to a tree for a decade or so, still in decent shape, perodically hunters would replace/augment the ratchet straps or screw-in steps. Minding my own business, glassing around, ranging trees, and I keep looking back to this funny speckled brown rock that I didn't remember from last season. When I climbed down and checked it out I saw that it was a molasses block with corn in it. Well, dukes, I've just illegally hunted over bait without realizing it. I was pissed, and grateful that I didn't shoot anything. Immediately called the game warden, sent her pictures and GPS coordinates, and hunted other spots on the same chunk of public land. This was at the base of a slope leading to a ridgeline paralleling the Lake Superior shoreline. I spend the rest of archery season hunting the ridgeline and top half of the slope, leaving the lower half of the slope alone, without success.
Come rifle season, I talk to another couple of hunters who tells me that the wardens are working this giant baiting operation all along the base of the slope. I pretty quickly realized that my report had been exaggerated several times over, with the end result that I had the entire slope - except the meadow with the bait in it - to myself, while the ridgeline was a bit crowded compared to previous years. Shot a nice fat doe a few meadows over from where I had seen the molasses block.
10/10 would report baiting again.