well i prefer to hunt over baits myself. its funa dn you get some real cool trail camera photos of bears and stuff but if you want to do it w/ out baiting i would hunt the early season when the corn is still standing. w/ some good scouting you can probably take a big bruin although up around katahdin you arent going to find to many corn feilds so the option there would be to scout out some older cutoff for berries. i hunt the eustis area and over to solon mostly and have real good luck w/ bears hitting the baits though!