We never baited the bears...We’d drive the logging roads and have a “strike” dog on the hood or the top...Believe it or not, a good “strike” dog could smell if a bear had crossed or went down the logging road in the past few hours...He’d start baying, then we’d get the trail dogs out and have at it...
I forgot about the logging roads. They do extended quite a ways north. Fisherman and poachers also use them. Some years ago we started a canoe trip from a lodge on a big body of water over a hundred miles from the nearest paved road. We set camp the first night at the portage on the big lake. Later that evening a bass boat pulls into the portage area and starts fishing. We are like WTF. The outfitter later said the logging roads reach that far north..