Colorado?
We are in Washington. Most of our bears are pretty small compared to bears in Alaska.
One of the guys from work baited a black bear for nearly a year up in the woods where he had a second job. The first day of bear season in the middle of August; he shot the poor thing while it was eating the treat he had put our for it. To hear him talk... it was a great big bear nasty bear. He brought the rug he had made out of its hide to work.
It looked like he shot Yogi’s friend BooBoo. I have seen sheep skins that were significantly larger. After that he was known as Howard the Bear Killer. I don’t think it is legal to bait bears around here these days. Either way it doesn’t seem very sportsman like.