RE: Bear Bait recipe "Bear Crack"
Fructose!
Get any sugar type substance that farmers feed calves. This stuff will work wonders.
Use a good stink bait to attract and the fructose will keep em there. Use it as a dry sugar, or let it sit and become hard like bricks, or heat it an create a thick syrup. Pour over logs and stumps. The bears will literally eat the wood.