“Some hunters use bear bait”
From my perspective, that doesn’t seem like hunting.
Try hunting over bait.
It is far from certain. In heavily forested areas, there are only two ways with a plausible chance of getting a black bear.
Hunting over bait, and hunting with dogs.
Both systems are allowed in Wisconsin.
The average success rate in Wisconsin last year was 28%.
Big business here in Texas. People pay through the nose to sit in a (sometimes heated) box blind next to a corn feeder with shooting lanes cut and cleared. Then drive your truck or side-by-side up to your kill and in some cases have the ranch works actually retrieve and clean it for you.
I have never hunted that way and refuse to pay in upwards of $10K for that experience. The only hunting I ever did in my home state was to ask landowners if I could use the spot and stalk methods to locate a quarry.
If not, I would go to states that didn’t allow that and spent many a great day putting miles on my boots sitting on every hill glassing or moving quietly through a swamp edge or hard-wood bottoms for something to try and get close enough to take a shot and moving after a while.
If you haven’t bow hunted elk during the rut, tried to spot and stalk muleys or whitetails in a CRP field or some high mountain meadow, or hunted above 11,000 feet for sheep/goats, or horse packed into back country you haven’t lived. After the shot is when the work starts.