Better be careful if there are wild hogs there. If you bait the next thing you know the landowner will have a hog problem

When baiting was legal in Colorado a guide friend of mine baited with dead cows and molasses, worked great also anise oil is said to work great on a rag hanging in a tree. Good luck

Does anyone ever use plain old corn? We are not allowed to bait anything in PA. But, bears sure love the backyard corn feeders that people have for viewing deer.

I've had success using a varmint call to bring in bears - usually when I don't have a bear tag.... :-)

Corn would certainly work. I had a 50 gallon drum on a tripod with a spin feeder on it set up behind my hunting cabin up in northern MI to keep does around to bring in the bucks when the rut was getting near, but I never hunted within a 1/2 mile of it. One day when I was up there to cut grass in late August I filled it with 300# of fresh corn and late that afternoon I looked out the window and there were three cubs that probably weighed around 40#. I watched them for a few minutes and then saw the sow come slinking in to check them out. Then she went back a ways and laid down as it was getting dark. The next morning I went out and she had either taken her nose or a front paw and pushed the feeder off center just enough to allow all the corn to fall on the ground and the only thing there was a dead coon. Those bears must have eaten all night and didn't like that coon getting in on the goodies. It looked like the sow had probably just smashed him into the ground with a front paw, as there was no blood around and it looked like she had just flattened him with a paw.

300 pounds in one night...wow. They do love their corn either on the kernel or the cob. They really make a mess and flatten a corn field once they find them.

That was the last time I used a feeder up there, as I figured there was no way to keep a bear from doing that without extending the legs up another few feet to get it up higher. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle messing with it and I hope those bears had some belly aches after eating that much corn in one night!

I know what happens when I eat too much corn...LOL

For bait here in AK I use wet cobb grain. It has molasses and corn in it. Lots of vitamins and protein that bears crave. We use some sweet stuff like anise oil. And bacon grease works wonders too.

We had a sow and her 2 cubs clean out 100 lbs of dog food and other associated goodies in 1 night. When a bear finds a good food source they will not leave until it is gone. They may go just out of sight and continue to return until they can eat it all.