I do not hunt bears as I do not like to eat them, but, have friends that do and friends that guide also. Most guide in Maine do in fact use sweets and get alot of bear that way. Canned cherry pie filling dumped onto a pile of sweets will bring in the bear here. However one such place the bears come into rather good. But, there is a big bear that has killed 2 of a friends bear hounds as he would not tree. He also would not come into sweets. He preffers meat and gets into a pile of animals discarded after being skun out by a trapper. To date no one has shot him yet though they have tried to get him more than once. I also had a grandfather that shot one off his door step that was eating an old sponge cake he had thrown out. So sweets would prolly work best.