Originally Posted by flags

Back when it was legal to bait for bear in CO, this was before the massive influx of displaced morons from CA ruined the place, I knew some guys that took bear every year by using cow or horse carcasses. They would buy old broken down stock and lead them up to where 2 or 3 canyons came together and then they would shoot the cow/horse at the head of the drainages. When the meat became fly blown and the maggots appeared, so would the bear. But such things are no longer legal in CO but they may be in your areas.