I don' t bait... but there is something you can use.... along with a bunch of squashed apples. They' re expensive... but pick up a hundred pound bag of raw peanuts in the shell at the local Southern States or whatever the close farm store is. I feed the deer in my back yard some at times. I' ll just put a few in each pile of corn. They' ll pick through the corn and eat every peanut first. They just love ' em. I think to get things started you might want to just broadcast a whole bag in a small area. They do love ' em.