#1 Bear Baiting Trick

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I know there is at least one other thread about bear baiting. I'm starting this one because I would like input on everyones number one trick or tip... Not really interested in what to use as bait etc as it's too late to start trying to accumulate anything other than what I have.... Soooooo, what is your best kept secret for getting big blacks in during daylight hours once you get to your bait site????

I was gonna try two things this year:

1- Molasses in a thick wool sock hung high above the bait

2- spraying homemade anise in the tree's around the bait and using it as a cover scent to and from the bait.


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Wrong Way said:
Before heading to your stand, nuke a bag of popcorn.....about two minutes longer than you should (DON'T OPEN!!). bring it with and once settled pop the bag open...can be smelled for miles and brings em in.
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There's one i have never heard... Sounds easy and cheap, much like me.. I'll try it..
 
If it's a big bear he didn't get big being fooled by food smell at a bait with a lot of human activity? I would go with honey burn and beaver.
We fooled one by leaving a hunter at the bait and have another hunter walk away from bait taking as he walked away.
 
Buy 3-4 cans of sardine from the $$$ store. Open them and sprinkle the juice on the bushes and trees around your treestand. Hang the cans on branches and you're all set.
Make sure you pick the biggest bear from the crowd. :)
 
1st - Stop trying to bait bears, and start baiting ravens and crows. Often smells in dense bush dont travel as far as most people think, and most of my baits are in pretty dense bush. If you put out lots of large bones (thigh bones, so the birds dont fly off with them), in a open area near by so the birds see it from the air, the cackling of the ravens can be heard for a long, long way way off. I put out sent trails from the bones to my baits.
I do this to help get my baits started.

Bears are very opertunistic and will come into ravens cackling and check it out. The added sound of cackling ravens combined with (Stinky beavers) really makes a big difference!

One of the best tricks that dramatically increased the number of bears at my bait.


2nd - Once bears find my baits, I put out lots of grease on in front of your baits (I pour a minimum of 5 gallons infront it the barrel every time I fill my baits. This saturates the ground with nice smelly oil). The bears will get in on there paws and track it everywhere they go bringing in other bears.

This took me from seing two to three bears a night to seing as much as 15 different bears a evening. one evening, I actually saw 13 different bears at one time from my stand!!!

Two best trick I ever learned over 25 years of baiting bears.

Collin
 
Honey burns...chicken grease....cotton balls soaked in jello mix hung from trees. If its your bait and only you hunting it don' bring stangers in when you bait, let the bears get used to you. When I was guiding I had many bears sitting at the bait tree waiting for me to show with lunch.
 
Wrong Way said:
Before heading to your stand, nuke a bag of popcorn.....about two minutes longer than you should (DON'T OPEN!!). bring it with and once settled pop the bag open...can be smelled for miles and brings em in.
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I do the same thing, but in a bigger dose. Pop an XL garbage bag full the night before, tie the garbage bag up to keep it half-ass fresh. I can smell it in my treestand 25 yards away and 20 feet up so bears should beable to smell it miles away. Worked two years in a row, bears within 2 hours of putting it out ( on an established bait already)
 
DVXDUDE said:
I do the same thing, but in a bigger dose. Pop an XL garbage bag full the night before, tie the garbage bag up to keep it half-ass fresh. I can smell it in my treestand 25 yards away and 20 feet up so bears should beable to smell it miles away. Worked two years in a row, bears within 2 hours of putting it out ( on an established bait already)
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Do you burn it though? Makes all the difference.
 
1) The person doing the baiting of a given site does the hunting.(The bear will associate your sent with the bringer of food NOT death.)
2)When baiting give the buckets /barrels a good banging(dinner bell), when going out to hunt do the same routine.(Pavlov's theory applied)
3)Doughnuts, muffins etc day old bakery what have yous make a good bait,grease ya to an extent....put it this way, would you rather eat old Tim Hortons or a bucket of smelly fish and grease? Don't get me wrong a bear will eat it if there's no other easy food around. You are more likely to get bears that have been eating garbage with a bait like that however.
 
Hunt from a tree stand as high as possible. Only hunt the bait when there's a favorable wind,ie. in your face. Leave the bait if the wind starts swirling. There's no scent available that will completely cover or mask human scent. Smaller bears will often bolt when they catch your scent and approach a while later from upwind thinking it's safe. Big bears won't be back while you're there, perhaps in the middle of the night. Once they've caught human scent, they'll generally do a loop around the periphery and only come to the bait when human scent free. Also, remain very quiet and keep your movements very slow, I've watched big bears sit in a wooded area a short distance from the bait watching and listening.

Anise is a great attractant. If you're going to use beaver, chop the meat up into golf ball or baseball size pieces and spread it around the bait, better yet cover it or bury it a bit so the birds don't get it. Bears will grab large pieces of meat and disappear under cover to eat it, the same goes for fish, don't dump whole fish at a bait. This also works great for bow hunters as it gets the bears moving around the bait and allowing for good shot placement.

Remove the castor glands from beaver and cut them open and hang from a nearby tree.

Lastly, save the pictures and video for after the shot. ;)
 
Wrong Way said:
Before heading to your stand, nuke a bag of popcorn.....about two minutes longer than you should (DON'T OPEN!!). bring it with and once settled pop the bag open...can be smelled for miles and brings em in.
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And hopefully by the time you get home the stink of burned corn will be gone and (if lucky) your wife/GF will still be there.
 
It is easy to get a bear to come to your bait. The big thing is to keep him there. In the fall a bear is trying to put on a thick layer of fat for hibernation. Use the best bait to do this, and you will keep bear at you bait. I have been baiting for some time @ the same spots where others bait...I have heard them complain that the bear quit hitting their baits with regularity all of a sudden, or they aren't getting ''that big bear'' on camera anymore. This is usually after I start baiting.

Smoked meat is a great attractant that bear can't resist...Also put suckers in a black pail in spring and set it on the shed roof until fall..This turns into a stinky oil about as thick as gear oil. I brush this on trees liberaly as an initial attractant.I use very little bait until they are getting hit. I use strictly meat scraps once I have them comming...The big bears will put a run on smaller bear, and claim these baits.

I NEVER use fish...I have found that once fish goes rancid your bait is pretty much frigged.

If there aren't any other baiters in your area(a couple KMs) pretty much anything works. If there are other baiters you gotta step it up a notch.
 
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The deep fryer grease really smells and gets them out. they will literally dig it up if you spray enough around...you can also try a grease pad....a piece of osb or plywood with lard/grease all over it, they will try to eat the board and get it all over their pads which will surely leave a good trail for other bears to follow.
 
A buddy of mine was deer hunting, and at lunch he pulled out a big piece of Garlic Kielbasa. Not long after he spotted something a couple hundred yards away from him and moving in fast. He ended up shooting a huge bear when it was about 25yards away, and the locals said it was the biggest they had seen.

So my choice is some kind of Garlic Polish sausage. :D
 
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