Black Bear Bait???
- Thread starter Crappieguy
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Chicken dung
Pathfinder
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- Northeast Ontario
Try Carbs / Sweets.
As of late Ive been using the molasses Horse feed and they love it (18$ for 55lbs). I know guys who make a whole bunch of popcorn sweets over it (kool aid powder etc.) but I cant be bothered to make that much popcorn.
Also Get some used Deep fryer oil and spray it around the bait and make sure they step all over it. (they will likely lay down while eating too). It makes a strong smell and they will make greasy tracks all over the bush that will bring in other bears.
A loaf of bread with molasses is good treat and ive noticed that a part sheet of plywood or wafterboard smeared with molasses or lard will keep them playing in it (they just about ate the sheet I have presently).
Good Luck.
As of late Ive been using the molasses Horse feed and they love it (18$ for 55lbs). I know guys who make a whole bunch of popcorn sweets over it (kool aid powder etc.) but I cant be bothered to make that much popcorn.
Also Get some used Deep fryer oil and spray it around the bait and make sure they step all over it. (they will likely lay down while eating too). It makes a strong smell and they will make greasy tracks all over the bush that will bring in other bears.
A loaf of bread with molasses is good treat and ive noticed that a part sheet of plywood or wafterboard smeared with molasses or lard will keep them playing in it (they just about ate the sheet I have presently).
Good Luck.
big giant head
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- Winnipeg, MB
I have been putting out about 25 pounds of donuts everyday for the last 2 weeks
This is what I use, and it works for all my friends, I have on tap, the best greese and beef, and bacon run off drippings, pour over hard bread ends, add some sugar, add some popcorn, and bingo when this stuff heats up in a plastic pail, it's like a dinner bell!!!!
This will not work in a metal drum, you have to use 20lt white plastic pails. And the cost of a bag of sugar, sure beats the hell out driving all over to buy day old donuts
This will not work in a metal drum, you have to use 20lt white plastic pails. And the cost of a bag of sugar, sure beats the hell out driving all over to buy day old donuts
I have about 7 skinned beavers, 50lbs of corn, 50lbs of oats, large garbage bag of popcorn, 10 litres of mollasses, 20 gallons of fryer grease. Got 3 largest beavers hung in a burlap sac about 15 feet in the air, everything else mixed together in a 50gal drum. Poured about 10gallons of fryer grease on a large rock, all around bait site.
thankfully my cousin is a trapper and freezes all his beavers after he skins them for bear bait. going to put out little by little after they start hitting the bait, then dump a big load when the season actually opens.
thankfully my cousin is a trapper and freezes all his beavers after he skins them for bear bait. going to put out little by little after they start hitting the bait, then dump a big load when the season actually opens.
IMO the best meat u can get for bear
Pathfinder
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I heard the same. Its good to be friends with a trapper. Ill have to hit up my buddy next year since his dad has a quota of about 30 a year to fill.
I use popcorn, sweet horse feed, whole corn, molasses, & apples. Household food scraps work well too. Some people use cheap dogfood. cheap peanut butter is also good. I smear it on tree trunks in front of my trailcam which makes the bear stretch up to get it & gives me a good indication of size. Dollar store sardines in oil work as good attractor baits. Nail a can to a tree near your bait.
You don't have to put out alot of bait. About 1/2 a 5 gal pail is plenty IMHO. I try to put out bait once a week in the preseason, then ramp it up to 2 or 3 times a week before the season starts. As other posters have pointed out; don't always bait at the same time, mix it up or the bears will pattern you, lol.
George
You don't have to put out alot of bait. About 1/2 a 5 gal pail is plenty IMHO. I try to put out bait once a week in the preseason, then ramp it up to 2 or 3 times a week before the season starts. As other posters have pointed out; don't always bait at the same time, mix it up or the bears will pattern you, lol.
George
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billC68 should chime in soon enough, hes got it to a science.
beavers work. and sweets.
put the grease on the barrel and around the site. they walk in it and leave a stink trail to make their way back and show other bears where the free food is.
beavers work. and sweets.
put the grease on the barrel and around the site. they walk in it and leave a stink trail to make their way back and show other bears where the free food is.
I'll add another 2cents tonight,
2 years ago I took an entire chicken, placed it into a 5gal pale and filled 3/4 full of water, I then sealed it and placed it on my roof for about 3months. When I opened that sucker no words can describe the smell that came out.. Overnight I had a TON of activity and the bears kept coming all season, the only problem was that damn smell if the wind blew anywhere near my stand! I probably won't try this one again myself, but it did work like nothing i've tried since.
2 years ago I took an entire chicken, placed it into a 5gal pale and filled 3/4 full of water, I then sealed it and placed it on my roof for about 3months. When I opened that sucker no words can describe the smell that came out.. Overnight I had a TON of activity and the bears kept coming all season, the only problem was that damn smell if the wind blew anywhere near my stand! I probably won't try this one again myself, but it did work like nothing i've tried since.
How you gonna see a bear with all those blue hats sniffin around
Seriously one of the best & easiest to carry around to get bears coming is a tin of sardines nailed to a tree. Once there coming you can switch to something more substantial.
