Bear bait recipies

We've always used popcorn and molasses. It does not take long at all to make several dozen 5 gallon pails of popcorn if you have a popcorn machine... and its cheap too. Once the pails are made, they last for weeks. We use propane tanks, with holes about an 3/4 inch wide pierced in them, with a little door for getting the popcorn in. We chain them to trees and cover the popcorn with molasses. After a day or two, every single piece of popcorn is gone, which aint an easy task through such a small hole.

Another way that keeps them busy is to suspend the tank from a high branch, but not far from the trunk. The trick is to get them to climb the tree, swat the tank a few times and them go down and eat what fell out. Keeps em busy for hours, though really big bears dont like climbing all that much.

Far what it's worth, Tim Hortons does indeed throw out several garbage bags of donuts twice a day. A friendly talk with the manager will probably get him to tell his staff to leave the garbage bags outside of the dumpster so that you dont have to jump in to retrieve them. Make sure you pick em up though, and tell him when you've gotten enough for your needs.
 
thor7742 said:
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.
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dunno about AB but using any part of game meat as bait is illegal.
 
Go with the tried and true also the cheapest, Beaver after it has been in the barrel a couple of days the bears are in line, mixed up hops with grease also works like a hot damm. You can hunt Beaver in AB and trap them if you are a trapper such as I. When the Beaver are tipping the scale at 70 to 80 lbs theres to many Beaver up this way Beaver are a hazard
 
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Back in the day I used something stinky and oats. The best something stinky I used is some sort of carcass (calf or sheep, never used beaver but I keep reading it's bear candy). But the bulk of the bait is oats (sweet feed) the big advantage is that they have to eat it there no draging it off.

I used drums with redused access (bars through the top). Chained to a tree baricaded (piled up dead fall)to provde a broadside bow shot.
 
thanks for all the input guys got a couple of deals going with some local guys here all the timmys dayolds i can carry from the timmys up the road as much used french fry grease as i can handle from a chip wagon and 20 gallons of spoiled berrys and other fruits a week durring berry season from a fruit and veggie stand hopefully it will work now just to figure out where to put the baits and how i am gonna fit 2 50 gallon barrels in the back of my jeep cherokee every weekend from june till end of season
 
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