Be carefull what you wish for. Baiting bear can be a time and money HAWG. I baited (when it was still legal) and had to "feed the bears" every other day. I did like mentioned above and dug a small hole. I was hunting out of a tree stand with a bow so shot placement is crutial. I piled up logs to where it wasnt easy at all for a bear to access the bait except where offering an ideal shot. I would pile smaller stuff over the bait to keep smaller animals from pakcing it off. I used alot of fryer grease, and the cheapest dog food I could find. The mixture of the two makes bear scat look alot like cowpies. The hardest part was getting the bait "started". You NEED good stink bait. Find some old meat, out of your freezer, from the past date rack, etc. DONT USE POLTRY. Bears wont eat spoiled poltry. Put it in a good rubber sealed bucket and leave in the sun for a few weeks before you plan on setting up your biat. I wouldnt start a bait but a few weeks before the season starts, to expensive and time consuming. Set that "stink bait" out on top of some filler material (dog food, old bread doughnuts, whatever.) The smell from the stink will bring them in, and dogfood will keep them coming back. Once they see there is a positive food source there everytime they make there "rounds" they will put this bait station in there feeding cycle. Otherwize I like to either use propane bottles and just barely crack them open, the rotten egg smell brings them in too.
Ok done rambling on now. Good luck, you can do it, but its alot of work. Well worth it though in my opinion.
