Bear Baiting

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What do you guys use for bear baiting in remote areas? I use to be able to get to my baits every couple of days but now I don't seem to have as much disposable time and I'm looking for something that I can fill up a 45 gallon drum with and leave.
 
Stale bread and syrup, day-old donuts, cereal grains and molasses, fruit (no citrus or bananas), etc... Use pork fat in a large onion bag raised above ground as a "strike bait" to get them coming in. I have a friend that uses beaver carcasses for bait, but I find it too messy and awkward.
 
Bread and used deep fryer oil. In a 50 gallon barrel. I can now go in just once a week. But it takes a couple of trips to fill the barrel. Later in the season I will use pancake syrup on the bread.

My stink bait is spoiled goose meat suspended about 15 feet up. Everytime it rains it gets refreshed and does it stink.
 
In my expereince with baiting remote fly in only areas, bears will empty out the bait barrel onto the ground to get at one little peice of beaver in the bottom. Having seen that over and over, we started keeping beaver carcasses frm the local trappers and cutting them up real small (frozen with and axe) to use as bait. Of course we also use other things like molasses and oats. Try not to have anything bigger than a mouthful in the barrel or they will take it away into the dense bush to eat it. Small peices for sure and the oats scattered around will keep them there around the barrel licking up oats for weeks. Also make your hole in the barrel as small as possible. Just paw size so they have to work at fishing something out, it keeps them around longer.
 
I used bacon grease and bacon and had solid activity every evening. I also buy bags of icing sugar and throw it in the wind, the stuff floats for great distances and bears love it. Flavoured jello powder also works good.
Of course we also use donuts, fryer grease, and beavers but we dont fly in.
 
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Fall bear, meat scraps are by far the best to keep bear around...I have a line on 45 gallon barrels of peanut butter tailings that I'm hookin a friend up to try this fall.
 
Try a feeder and maybe try hanging it up with a chain across two trees so it is impossible for them to get to. Alot of links on YouTube about bear proofing deer feeders.
 
We use popcorn with a smalli(ish) hole on the barrel. Easy to fill entirely with little weight and the bears take a long time to eat as they seem to eat it piece by piece. We had a bad experience with bread as it went moldy which is understandable but the bears lost interest once it turned green. We also used meat scraps and the same thing happened when it turned green. The bears literally turned up their noses and padded right by a bait that they had been hammering. One of our bait sites had "bear suckers" which were in essence lollipops made of corn syrup etc. that were poured into a steel pail and bolted to a tree. These were supposed to be a way of keeping the animals at the bait for a long long time as they have to find out how many licks it takes to get to the bottom. We found them almost impossible to make properly but the theory is sound. Good luck either way
 
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