Eductate me. black bear bait barrels

I'm told that when the Game Warden wants to catch a bear they use oats and molasses, the kind for horses.
 
We used meat scraps from a butcher shop mostly bones, used deep fryer grease mixed with Oats.
The bears get the grease on their paws and track it all over the country.
Beaver hung in tree is also a excellent attractant.
 
I also use the good old "blue barrel", they seem to work fine. Tied off with heavy gauge cable. Oats and corn work well, cookies work great, and slather on some caramel sauce to get them licking.

One year when I first started I set up my tree stand, paced out a tree 50 yards distant, and squeezed three bottles of caramel sauce right on the tree. Two hours later I shot the biggest bear of my life.
 
I like 45 gallon steel drums,filled with bread ,old dog food,cookies pies , candy ,coated in molasses .lota of luck using buttery dollar store popcorn with cherry juice powdered mix in it.Anise oil is awesome for scent along with used fryer grease from restaurants.beaver carcasses work excellent if you know a trapper and have a freezer to store thrm in ,get as many saved up as possible,it's their favorite meat lol. Bea or castors are also excellent attractors for bringing in bears,thry love castor and will roll around in it and mess with it for a long time.
 
I chain a plasic 45 gal barrel to a tree vertically. About 3/4 of the way off the bottom I have
cut a 10" hole in the side. Put in bait via the hole ,,,,,, DONE.
 
Keep it simple. Keep the access holes on the smaller side. Open tops and huge holes i don’t recommend at all. The barrels with the bolted ring for the lid work best. 1 inch drain holes work good. Bait is really a personal thing. 20 guys will have 20 different ideas on how and when and what they use and they all work. Early spring i run beavers and fresh beef scraps and straight hog fat. And i grease the absolute piss out of the bait site. Once they are rolling on that i switch to oats grease and beavers as needed. The goal is to bait bears not freedom feed them. Get them on your schedule not theirs.
 
Gonewild said:
Keep it simple. Keep the access holes on the smaller side. Open tops and huge holes i don’t recommend at all. The barrels with the bolted ring for the lid work best. 1 inch drain holes work good. Bait is really a personal thing. 20 guys will have 20 different ideas on how and when and what they use and they all work. Early spring i run beavers and fresh beef scraps and straight hog fat. And i grease the absolute piss out of the bait site. Once they are rolling on that i switch to oats grease and beavers as needed. The goal is to bait bears not freedom feed them. Get them on your schedule not theirs.
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I dont put out bait until dandelions are out, and only if I’ve got time to start hunting in 7-9 days for this very reason.
 
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