Bear bait recipies
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--use anything and everything!!!!!
--bread, scraps from kitchen, oil, grain, donuts, anything!!!!!!!
--especially beavers, if you can get a hold of a carcass from a trapper, your set., bears will walk across a pile of donuts to get to one beaver carcass
--use 50 gal drums.
--after you bait, jam the holes full with logs, that way you can stop skunks and what not from stealing your bait. plus, when you see a 6 foot log 8" in diameter thrown 20 feet from the barrel. you'll know it was a bear,
--I like to use the heavy plastic 50 gal drums, as there light to carry in, and also you can mark black lines so you can tell if a bear is big or not, judging by its height on the barrel.
--bait every 2-3 days, fill the drum up to the rim, you'll need to rebait every time!!!!!!
--go to a chinese food restaurant and pick up some oil, you'll go through it like water.
--bears will get oil on their paws and track it through the bush, thus other bears will follow it right to your bait.
here are some photos to help you out.....
small bear
you'll need lots of oil!!!!!!
heres the fruits of your labours!!!!!!
let me know if you need more help
--bread, scraps from kitchen, oil, grain, donuts, anything!!!!!!!
--especially beavers, if you can get a hold of a carcass from a trapper, your set., bears will walk across a pile of donuts to get to one beaver carcass
--use 50 gal drums.
--after you bait, jam the holes full with logs, that way you can stop skunks and what not from stealing your bait. plus, when you see a 6 foot log 8" in diameter thrown 20 feet from the barrel. you'll know it was a bear,
--I like to use the heavy plastic 50 gal drums, as there light to carry in, and also you can mark black lines so you can tell if a bear is big or not, judging by its height on the barrel.
--bait every 2-3 days, fill the drum up to the rim, you'll need to rebait every time!!!!!!
--go to a chinese food restaurant and pick up some oil, you'll go through it like water.
--bears will get oil on their paws and track it through the bush, thus other bears will follow it right to your bait.
here are some photos to help you out.....
small bear
you'll need lots of oil!!!!!!
heres the fruits of your labours!!!!!!
let me know if you need more help
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Grouseman basically said it all. I prefer bread left in a garbage bag in the sun the day I'm going out so its warm and moist. After I put it in the barrel I'll sprinkle Cherry jello on it for the smell. I also leave a bag of rolled oats in front of the barrel and might pour corn suryp on it to keep him around if the barrel goes empty. If you have a big bear visiting the bait, usually indicated by impressions in the ground because they will step in the same spot coming in and away from the bait, it might be best to have someone else come to the bait with you. As you get in the stand he loads the bait, making some noise and then leaves. Bears though always know your in the tree, so they come in very nervous, they grab so bread and leave, they come back grab more and leave but don't go as far. After a while they stay at the barrel and you will see the hair on their back relax. Now you can move about and even make a little noise with no fear of him running away. One last thing that I've noticed young bears make all kinds of noise until just yards away then they sneak in, big bears just appear at the bait with no noise at all. Good luck....Bob
Here's what I do...
I use everything for bait. Save up a years worth of bacon fat, smear it on a tree to get an idea of how tall the bear is. Dog food brings them in. I have a friend who works for a cracker company.....I get all the "floor crackers". Grease from restaurant grease traps is especially yummy to bears. I pour it on the ground around my barrels. When the bears walk away, they leave a nice smelling scent trail to lead other bears in. If the action on your bait slows down, change up the flavour, do a honey / molassis burn.
I use everything for bait. Save up a years worth of bacon fat, smear it on a tree to get an idea of how tall the bear is. Dog food brings them in. I have a friend who works for a cracker company.....I get all the "floor crackers". Grease from restaurant grease traps is especially yummy to bears. I pour it on the ground around my barrels. When the bears walk away, they leave a nice smelling scent trail to lead other bears in. If the action on your bait slows down, change up the flavour, do a honey / molassis burn.
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Use fish oil to lure them in/help them locate the bait from far away.
Put fish scraps in a 5 gallon bucket, seal it with a good lid. Let it sit on the sun for a few days, few weeks or few seasons.
Once the fish guts turn into liquid, bring the stuff to the bait site, open lid, soak rags and/or tree stumps.
Put fish scraps in a 5 gallon bucket, seal it with a good lid. Let it sit on the sun for a few days, few weeks or few seasons.
Once the fish guts turn into liquid, bring the stuff to the bait site, open lid, soak rags and/or tree stumps.
Fish scraps do not work everywhere and can in fact, if it is not a regular item in the area,kill a bait site.....so be careful.
Meat is best to start with....I prefer beef. Then you can switch, once they are coming, use pork scraps etc, then get into the bread and sweets, grain with used cooking oil. In remote fly in areas the popcorn trick is valuable and works very well.
As mentioned earlier...the ultimate is a beaver carcass......they can't resist!
Meat is best to start with....I prefer beef. Then you can switch, once they are coming, use pork scraps etc, then get into the bread and sweets, grain with used cooking oil. In remote fly in areas the popcorn trick is valuable and works very well.
As mentioned earlier...the ultimate is a beaver carcass......they can't resist!
yup, fish never worked for us either...
i put three suckers in the bottom of the barrel while baiting this summer, 2 days later we came back, to see teh barrel completly empty, except the fish, the bears had actually licked off all the juices and grease on the fish, not a single scratch on the side of the fish...go figure eh?
I guess even bears have standards, LOL
i put three suckers in the bottom of the barrel while baiting this summer, 2 days later we came back, to see teh barrel completly empty, except the fish, the bears had actually licked off all the juices and grease on the fish, not a single scratch on the side of the fish...go figure eh?
I guess even bears have standards, LOL
Last year we used a number of things.
-donuts(did some midnight dumpster diving at all the local Timmy's)
-meat scraps(have friends that own a butcher shop)
-oats soaked in used cooking oil
-powdered mollases (check your local feed stores)
-and last but certainly not least...beavers
We'd sit in the stand in the morning, go beaver hunting during the day, and sit in the stand again in the evening.
They loved the molasses. Just mix it with a little bit of water, and pour it on the trees, scrap barrels, etc.
-donuts(did some midnight dumpster diving at all the local Timmy's)
-meat scraps(have friends that own a butcher shop)
-oats soaked in used cooking oil
-powdered mollases (check your local feed stores)
-and last but certainly not least...beavers
We'd sit in the stand in the morning, go beaver hunting during the day, and sit in the stand again in the evening.
They loved the molasses. Just mix it with a little bit of water, and pour it on the trees, scrap barrels, etc.
Oil of Anise.....mix with water in a spray bottle and use it on the trees in the area you are hunting.......old pop poured on the ground works good too.
And for you who are near cattlemen, isn't it calving season? If it's legal in your area, it works like dynamite.
And for you who are near cattlemen, isn't it calving season? If it's legal in your area, it works like dynamite.
Yes he might mean that, ......along with dead calves. No one is going to use a perfectly good calf for bait.
We are not talking about new calves tied to a tree with the hunter sitting in a Machan........waiting for the tiger to come .............. sorry wrong century.
We are not talking about new calves tied to a tree with the hunter sitting in a Machan........waiting for the tiger to come .............. sorry wrong century.
The major problem with killing beaver's for bait, other than it'a a fur bearing critter and you need a special license, is that it has a negative impact on the moose population. Those little critter's are responsible for all the swamps in my hunting area that the moose love to feed in / hide from the flies.
This depends on where you are. In Saskatchewan, farmers can shoot pest beavers on their property, or allow (request) others to do so. No special license required BUT you are supposed to leave them lay where shot (not take the fur). I doubt if a CO in Saskatchewan would give you grief for using the carcases for bear bate.
Sasquatch said:Go beaver hunting during the day..........that sounds legal. I guess you had trappers licences and all??
Sorry guys......if you did great, but otherwise..................
here come the legal Natzi's
get ahold of a trapper who is looking to get rid of the carcasses.
and beaver hunting is legal in the prov of Ont, if you own property and are haing troubles with the things cutting down trees and daming your roads
Vanilla works well and so does anise(SP?)
