Half the battle for us is just getting lucky. My general area doesn't home many bears, but a guy from my work is in bear country. We cannot bait bears but we can bait deer. A site for legal purposes is not considered baited after 10 days of being bait free. We do have them coming in regularly to our deer sites so we will stop feeding prior to season and hope they stay on pattern a few extra days, and pray we are on stand when they show up. very difficult to pattern a bear otherwise.