Where you hunt? Well we finsh the season with 23 bears. We hunt over bait and hounds. For baiting the key is the time of day when you place the bait. Try your hardest to bait about an hour before day light everyday. This way you are trying to convince the bear to come to the bait during day light hours. Make sure you do it about the same time everyday. Don't go back in the eve and bait it again only once a day. Remember mornings not eves.

We do have a good size group. There is about 20-25 of us that usally the main group. I know about the waiting period thats the same thruogh out the state. The reason we had this many tags is because alot comes from somebody who has a tag that knows one of the group members. or somebody knows somebody that knows one of us. Could be one of our cousin friend knows a friend that has a tag. and so on if thats makes sense. Every family members in the group draws for a tag, so we usally end up between 15-20 tags a year. Also if some hunter was not having any luck hunting by themselves call us for a last hope of harvesting a bear.
Anyways if I were you bait early than that. We usally try to get sweets and granola. We usally hunt with hounds but we did get a few over bait in fact the 525 was over bait. Remember to be scent free cause the bears nose is unbeliveieble. Also if you have a game camera put it up over the bait and keep track of the times and date. Example this one nice bear comes in a 1030 every other day.