In an area that I have to go light, I use a cereal mix, it might be hard to find, but I can buy it by the 55 gal drums about a ten min drive from my house, the mix runs about $35 (its a sweet mix of sweet cereal that is left over stuff from general mills and stuff) and then a drum of mollasses for about ten bucks, and just some scents that I mix up sweet smelling stuff never hurts. But anyway, that stuff lasts along time, you only need a little bit. take a log and cut it out hollow, about a foot and a half long, and the hole should have about an 8 inch diameter. Fill this hole up or even half way, depending on how much you want to spoil the bears, and put a rock big enought to cover the hole nicely, and big enough so coons can't tip it off, and put some sticks or dead logs around the bottom so no critters dig up underneath it, and that should be good, once they find it, they come in and hit it every day. You can sometimes find them laying in wait for you to come, you can even beat on a 5 gal pail or tree with a stick, and make a dinner bell effect. mollasses makes them mill around at the bait for a while, licking and stuff, and if you spray sweet smelling stuff on the trees, it makes the scent disperse and the bear come in faster, this helps alot when it is the baits first day out. This works really good, so I hope this helps.
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