Bait Sight - Lots Of Action...But... (pics)

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Lots of wildlife action at my son's bait sight but no bears yet.... There is a big bruin in the area so he should find it sooner or later.

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Ron
 
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Amphibious said:
looks like you're hunting at the dump?
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bahahaha ! that was a funny topic.



Good luck man. Your son should some more potent smells like fish in fruit juce with strawberries, sugar and stew meat. Put a combo like that in a black bag or bucket in the sun for a few days.... does the trick. If your sun has a quad tell him to pour some on his tires when hes driving around the bait area as well.
 
220Swifty said:
Do ontario bears have a taste for cardboard and garbage? out here we pick that s**t up, because it serves no purpose and ends up scattered in the trees.
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Your condescending comments have been noted and thanks for your insight. But I'm curious as to why you would you assume that any and all of the bait sight components will not be removed at the end of the season?

Also in addition to the sweet doughnuts I expect he's also got plenty of "stink" at that bait sight. He's not a novice at baiting bears. Here's a few pics from 2006, 07 & 08. There's no guarantee for 09 but if I were I betting man I'd put my money on him.

2006 This was a little one and his first with a bow.
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This 2007 bear was a good sized bruin weighing in at 525 lbs also taken with his compound.
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Here's another of the 2007
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This was his 2008 kill at a little over 400 lbs.
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He also helps out with some guiding for American hunters and this is a pic of a few of their bears from 2008.
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Ron
 
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Bait barrels, treestands, etc. I am sure are removed after the hunt, but after hunting baits myself, as well as guiding bear hunters, i know for a fact that the bears and other critters that frequent the bait will drag everything not tied down away. The first year i hunted, i had others doing the baiting. They used beef bones as part of the bait, and some of the more active barrels looked like a cattle graveyard from 20 yards out. By the end of the season, bones were spread in a 100 yd radius.

I am not suggesting you won't clean up after yourself, just that by placing things like cardboard on the site, it is going to be alot more difficult to get everything back to the way you found it when you pull out.

On a more personal note, when i hunt, i like to be immersed in nature, and staring at a heap of junk kills the feeling for me.


Not meant as an insult, just observation.
 
I have always found that sweet smells get bears coming back and staying around, but pungent smells get them coming in from miles away,,,

I had a friend who would pour a beeswax and brown sugar mix over a tree stump..basically a glazed tree stump... bears would lick that thing forever..
 
sealhunter said:
I have always found that sweet smells get bears coming back and staying around, but pungent smells get them coming in from miles away,,,

I had a friend who would pour a beeswax and brown sugar mix over a tree stump..basically a glazed tree stump... bears would lick that thing forever..
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I'm heading north in the morning and will be seeing my son over the next couple of days and will discuss this with him.

Thanks
Ron
 
ronecol said:
I'm heading north in the morning and will be seeing my son over the next couple of days and will discuss this with him.

Thanks
Ron
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If he finds this not to be the case let me know,...i'm not a seasoned bear hunter,..but the few times that I have fooled around with them, that's usually how it worked..stink had them coming from everywhere, sweet had them staying..

but...based on the pics of previous years, no doubt he knows what he's doing..


Good Luck !
 
Ron, someone mentioned sardines for bear attraction. In the years when I spent a lot of time with a BC provincial Game Dept. predator hunter, a single can of sardines was his favourite method of "taking care," of an unwanted bear.
He would virtually hide the opened and fixed up can, maybe in a brush pile, so nothing else would get to it, but the bear would find it.
In the days when some of us hunted bears over bait, with our bows and arrows, we would bury the meat in the ground. As I remember, maybe three inches of dirt over it. The bears would find it, then spend more time at it. But crows and other birds wouldn't get it.
 
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