bear baits

[savage17hmr]

I don't mean to be a party-pooper...but...You don't want to make the bear sick from spoiled food. Oats with molasses and honey work the best along with some scents (12 miles of dead fish i think).
Also, take your wife/g/f out with you when its "that time",works like a charm!
Just make sure you CAN bait in the area, and I believe you still have to mark where the bait is to warn others that there is a bear in the area. (atleast in Alberta)

 

[Jeremy]

I still think that Wendy would work best. Just tie her to a tree and hang a few steaks off her. Should do wonders

 

[moose_hunter]

i also heard rumor,s......and i do mean rumours .....that if you live in bc

you can spend $$$$ on a tank of gas and drive the roads till you see one...then get out of truck and blast the chit out of said bear...i hear they do this way cause they dont have the patience to hunt a real hunt...
well all of the above is stuff i heard.or read from here..

actualy most of us drive to where we hunt and WALK for a long ways until we find an animal, i am not a road hunter.

 

[BC Bigbore]

You don't want to make the bear sick from spoiled food

ROFLMAO Now that's some funny sh!t Spoken like someone who hasn't a clue

i am not a road hunter

Don't fret there young 'un. In a few years when you're old enough to get a driver's license, you'll be able to road hunt like everyone else

 

[Goose25]

actualy most of us drive to where we hunt and WALK for a long ways until we find an animal, i am not a road hunter.

Ya we know.... your not even a hunter.

 

[the_big_mike]

Ya we know.... your not even a hunter.

lol

Signguy, Jmasson and myself were out somewhere secret and found bear scat with berries..

we're gonna get some spoiled berries and fryer grease out there!

 

[Foxer]

Ok - enough with the thread hijacks and slagging guys. Yeaash Getting to be you can't have a decent bear thread around here

I dont' know much about baiting bears - but I've always wondered if it didn't make sense to use something similar to what they'd encounter that time of year anyway (Which was touched on by someone else). Wouldn't some sort of jam or other berry smelling product do well?

 

[crazy_davey]

actualy most of us drive to where we hunt and WALK for a long ways until we find an animal, i am not a road hunter.

I would have to agree with the others, you are not a road hunter because you are not a hunter at all, atleast not yet.

You are thirteen, experiance comes with time spent in the field, which you have not very much of, and dont tell us you do. It has been proven on other forums that you are nothing but a young troll looking for attention.

I have nothing wrong with kids, I actually like them when they are intersted in hunting and the outdoors. Just dont try and bulls**t your way onto a forum, you are much too easy too read.

 

[BIGREDD]

Beavers are a preferred food for bears... at least here. And if you can get a bunch of beaver carcasses from a trapper... freeze them... you know the rest.

 

[gth]

I usually head down to the local bread bakery and pick up all the moldy bread they will give me. (last year it was almost enough to fill the box of my truck) Then pick up some rolled oats, molasses and I get about 25 gallons of fryer grease from my moms restraunt.

I put around 60 loaves of bread in my bait barrel and then add about 2 gallons of molasses/water mix. Then I take a about 1/4 sack of rolled oats and mix it up with 5 gallons of fryer grease and I pour it all over the ground all around the area.

I will start around a week before the season opens and bait every other day.(Maybe 5 bait refills before opening day, and then only freshen the bait when I hunt after the season opens). I dont go as often or as early as I used to just because of the cost of gas now a days. I also only run one bait site now as I used to make baits all over the place.

Finding a good place to put the bait is the key. I usually make a run on the ATV around the middle of july. I will drive all over my hunting area and drop an egg on the trail or hang a can of sardines in a tree where I figure the bears are hanging out. When I come back in a day or 2 its usually pretty obvious where the most active area is. If you place your eggs and sardines properly you should have some good tracks to see what size bears are hanging out in what area.

I dont feel the need to bait for to long. If there are bears in the area they dont need a month to find the bait.

 

[walksalot]

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don't mean to be a party-pooper...but...You don't want to make the bear sick from spoiled food. Oats with molasses and honey work the best along with some scents (12 miles of dead fish i think).

Bears forage in dumps and if that isn't spoiled food I don't know what is. They have a system which can digest carrion.

Also, take your wife/g/f out with you when its "that time",works like a charm!

Who is going to tell the little lady that she is what they call bait in this hunting scenario. Given the time of the month, the time the little lady has to sit and ponder her role in this hunting scenario I pitty the poor bear which shows up. By the time she is through with it there won't be enough hide left to tie a decent wooly bugger.

 

[stewarch]

I still think that Wendy would work best. Just tie her to a tree and hang a few steaks off her. Should do wonders

I'vs seen pictures of Windy - I think she already has a few steaks hanging off her.

 

[Demonical]

Second the beaver carcasses for baiting. Apparently they are the ticket, if you can get them...
Guy I know in Whitecourt traps in the winter and guides bear hunters in the spring. He baits with beaver carcasses exclusively, gets about 80 of them each winter.
The only problem is rotten beaver stinks like hell. I think I'd want to use something that smells a little sweeter!

Some other stuff I've read about that is supposed to work great:

Honey burn. Put some honey in a metal pan, coffee can and heat it up. Produces a really strong aroma. I guess the idea is to just keep heating it right until it actually burns in the pan.

Likewise cooking bacon out in the fresh air. The black bear that came into our moose camp last October was after we'd cooked up a pound of bacon.

Take a junked 30 lb propane cylinder and cut a small hole in the bottom and put a hole in the top with a lid of some sort. Fill the thing with popcorn and pour molasses or honey onto it. The idea is the hole in the bottom should be just big enough for a bear to get a small amount out, so they gotta work to get the sweet popcorn out.
I'm sure if you poured old cooking oil or bacon grease onto it, that would be great also.

I saw one where a guy chained a pipe beside a tree and loaded the pipe from the top with dry dog food. The pipe had an elbow at the bottom where the kibble would come out. I could imagine this would be a pain if the stuff ever got wet...

 

[fogducker]

Take a junked 30 lb propane cylinder and cut a small hole in the bottom and put a hole in the top with a lid of some sort.

i think i will try one .....but i will cut about a six inch hole in it and weld a half coupling in it..... that way i can store it in the freezer and add all the food scraps in it..
when its full i take out of freezer when needed... then screw in a six inch pipe plug with a smaller hole on the end of it,
to let the bears get a sample taste of whats inside..
some good idea,s coming in here..
thanks for all the one,s so far

 

[grouseman]

Beavers are a preferred food for bears... at least here. And if you can get a bunch of beaver carcasses from a trapper... freeze them... you know the rest.

bears will climb over a pool filled with donuts for just a nibble at a beaver carcass

 

[Deano]

Meat works well, the stinkier the better. I also use lots of bread and I sprinkle jello poweder on it. Makes for a good smell and attracts the bears.

Hey, Moose Hunter is on my ignore list, why did I have to reead his post? I just love the way a 13 year old likes to lecture us on "Road Hunting".

Oh crap, I just saw the part about making bears sick. BWAAHAAHAAA!!!!!

 

[tracker]

-I agree beavers are number one but you have to cut them into small pieces as bear will take a whole one and be done for the day.
-Honey burn in a small fruit or veg can for attractant.
-Oats and cattle molasses in contanier/45 gal drum with small holes only for bears tongue will last for weeks chained to a tree.
-Donuts, sweets, buns bread, etc.
-My ideal bait if I could get it where we hunt (by water) would be a 200-300 lb pig left for dead stock wired to a tree. That would feed a lot of bears and stink.

If all fails take your bar- be in and make hamburgers with no gun.

 

[dw]

i also heard rumor,s......and i do mean rumours .....that if you live in bc

you can spend $$$$ on a tank of gas and drive the roads till you see one...then get out of truck and blast the chit out of said bear...i hear they do this way cause they dont have the patience to hunt a real hunt...
well all of the above is stuff i heard.or read from here..

ooooooh, Iv'e been hit Well you could do this in BC, but most of us have favorite spots we drive to then walk certain areas. Some bears hear that truck and run like hell. Go figure Baiting seems like a hell of a lot of work

 

[dumbdawg]

i gots a ton of pork fat in the freezer just waiting to go out

 

[Workin Man]

My local butcher gave me a bunch of pork fat last fall to mix with my ground venison. I'm hoping he will give me some more for baiting. Maybe load it into an old propane tank like Demonical mentioned. Approximately how big should the hole be?