Honey burn for bears.

Use a small tin can with no lid put honey in it and a coleman stove to heat, boil and burn it to a black charcol producing thick sweet smelling cloud. This is your attractant bait and use donuts, meat etc for feed. If you have bears in the area they will come in.
 
I used a small can of sterno for heat last year, and an old paint can.
what I did was to suspend a small can, inside the paint can with a wire, the sterno goes in the bottom of the paint can.
Be aware that if the honey boils over the whole rig will likely catch fire.
Lacking honey, sugar water (lots of sugar) works too.
 
This past sunday, on Canada in the Rough, they used a honey burn to bring in the bears...

Neat trick!

Cheers
Jay
 
My set up is a watch over it with a rifle deal, too much of a fire hazard to leave un attended.
Use it in conjunction with a bait station that has been set up for a while for best results.
Bait station gets bears into the area, honey zooms 'em in.
 
Bacon fat burn works well too. I use a small coffee can with a roll of tp in it and a bottle of isoproply alcohol poured on it drill some 3/8 hole around the top of the can,then put the honey or bacon fat in another coffee can on top. Light the bottom can and burn it till it is gone.

Andy
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I used a small can of sterno for heat last year, and an old paint can.
what I did was to suspend a small can, inside the paint can with a wire, the sterno goes in the bottom of the paint can.
Be aware that if the honey boils over the whole rig will likely catch fire.
Lacking honey, sugar water (lots of sugar) works too.
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x2...Sterno instead of your Coleman stove.....boiled over burned honey or corn syrup is a bi*ch to clean........JYC is right on the money
 
i bought one of those "world famous brand" folding stoves and some canned fuel just clean a tin can out and pour a inch or 2 of honey in and light the stove put it on top and your good to go
 
You won't need to burn anything. Just put the can out with the lid off and Yogi will find it. Mind you, so will ants, raccoons and everything else with a sweet tooth.
 
SO how does this sound, remember I'm a black bear newb. I'll have a few bags of old stinking meat festering in a couple of trees for a week or two. Then come the opener, I'll head out around 4:00pm, set up the honey burn, and wait over it with my 7mm-08 until dusk?

Is this a good time to try the trick, or is it just as successfull in the middle of the day? I've never deticated a hunt to bear, so I'm basically just ammending my deer tactics of morning/evening ambushing, and running through some swamps in the middle of the day.

Will they come out into a clearing to get at the honey? Or is it best set up in the thick swamp?
 
Skippy said:
SO how does this sound, remember I'm a black bear newb. I'll have a few bags of old stinking meat festering in a couple of trees for a week or two. Then come the opener, I'll head out around 4:00pm, set up the honey burn, and wait over it with my 7mm-08 until dusk??
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If you dotn have time to maintain a steady baiting regiment, sounds like a good plan to me.


Skippy said:
Will they come out into a clearing to get at the honey? Or is it best set up in the thick swamp?
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I guess it depends on how hungry they are. With this years bumper crop of damn near everything in the bush I dont know if you will get one out in the open until later in the year when they are really on the feed bag.
 
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