Well, you might not be able to bait bears where you are, but you could certainly hunt over natural food. This might be your next best option. I know a guy that has about six giant oak trees in his yard and then a few more oaks down where his stand is. To make a long story short, he gathers all of the fallen acorns in his yard and carries them down to where the oaks are in the woods by his stand and just piles them up right underneath the oak trees. The deer just seem to love eating them. I don't know what you should do, but there is usually a way to draw them in legally if you think hard enough about it.