We used to hit it extremely hard in AK on two sites. Each site had a large 70 gallon (Metal) over pack barrel. Each site, during the baiting season, went through about 1000lbs of dog food, 50 gallons of cooking grease, 10 gallons of molasses, sugar, half a truck bed of day old stuff (bread, cup cakes, etc..) from the hostess factory, and every left over cake, cookie, turkey, barbecue, veggies, fruits we could get our hands on and stored in the freezer during the year. One good year we had left over NBC bomb shelter hard tack candy in 88 lbs metal boxes.... Hard work getting it going but some of the funnest times we would have with the kids and friends.. We'd drop it off the first week of May and never took a bear from our stands till the 16th of May, and totally lights out the first week of June.. The bears wouldn't eat the dog food and other stuff till their plugs came out, then holy crap keeping it full was a problem... Especially when a Griz or two would decide to camp out..... A 5 gallon honey drip always hung above to keep them always near. They started excavating the entire area within a ten yard circle, we got lucky as there was never nothing to clean... I miss baiting, it is a blast. Good luck to all of you that are able to do it in Idaho and elsewhere..
