Bait Barrel in input please.

westcoastshooter said:
100% inaccurate. I have done it. Never been guided. Got out and tracked. Baiting to me seems like an unfair system. Sit in a blind, wait for a hungry bear to show up...
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Kinda like sitting in a blind in an orchard or the edge of a field and waiting for a deer to show up...

You are splitting hairs there partner...

The difference is, that with bears, you locate the dining location via scouting extensively (small shifts in location makes a difference)... then you hump in the food source, many, many trips over the span of weeks... AND THEN... you get to sit in the blind and HOPE that you can fool the senses of an alert adult bruin... and remain calm enough to perform at the moment of truth....

yeah... that sounds like an unfair advantage... over say, sitting in an apple tree (or oak dropping mast) or in a pile of hay bales...
 
westcoastshooter said:
I have never once sat in a blind to harvest a deer either.
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Don't care if you like baiting bears or not, period. If it is legal and the OP is asking an honest question don't ruin his/her thread with what you do or don't do or what your ethics are. This is the hunting section of CGN, for people who hunt in all different, legal ways across Canada and around the world.

If you don't like baiting bears, fine, start your own thread.

Move along.
 
I can speak for MB where there is exactly 0 chance of seeing a bear in the spring from a non baited blind (unless you stumble upon one somewhere). SOme of my best nights in the woods have been spent over a bear bait. Last spring we had 3 wolves come in on a sow with 3 cubs (2 of which were chocolate). The verbal sparring etc. that took place was 10000 percent better than just seeing the bears themselves and again that would have only occured over a bait site. Back to the original question, there are as many recipes for a good bait site as there are views on hunting. The only true lesson I have learned was to be careful with meat in your barrels. I had a local connection for scrap and bone and for the first day or two it was out the bears loved it. Once it turned a bit green they were 100 percent off the bait. I thought this was maybe a one off however it occured until we cleaned out all the barrels and started again. I love the sweet and popcorn or oats route as they are easier to use and require the animal to stay longer at the bait site itself.
 
bears are like people in that they have their likes and dislikes.

some bears prefer green meat, others not so much.

I watched a bear hook pieces of pork trim out of a pail with a claw and shake the maggots off before he ate it...an hour later another bear walked up to the same pail and ignored the meat while licking up maggots.

before we were regulated to one barrel we used to have a meat barrel, a grain barrel and donut feeders, pails of hard donut grease, even dog food.

some prefer meat, some grain and grease, some like donuts.

but they all like beaver and deer in my experience.
 
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