Need a No Fail trick for bears

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So for the second year in a row, I've baited hard, taken over 300 trail cam pics of 3 bears and less than a week before the season they disappeared. My last bear on cam was August 26, I bait every 24-48 hours with corn, molasses, dog food, used deep fryer oil, vanilla extract etc. and recently have even tried some meat, cakes and bread. All I'm getting is raccoons and a fox now. Any ideas what's wrong? I gotta find a way to get one before the goose hunt gets going.... Thanks
 
try a Pic a nic basket :D On a more serious note. I have a buddy who traps beaver. He has outfitters from Alberta, who drive many hours to come and buy all his carcasses from him, for bear bait. If you know any trappers in the area check with them for carcasses.
 
It's a little late but back in the olden days, when I was young, the guys would catch suckers and hang them from a tree in a burlap bag. The stink of rotting suckers would attract a number of bears. This was for the spring but I suspect it would also work in the fall with defrosted fish.
 
I'm not sure bud, I bait with the same stuff and I get bears regularly. Get a popcorn popper and about 5lbs of kernals. Make an XL garbage bag full and dump corn syrup over it. spread it all over the bait site because bears love to pick the popcorn up piece by piece. The popcorn scent will travel a long ways, I can smell a bag full when im sitting 20 yards away 15ft in the air, so a bear should beable to smell that half a mile away atleast.

anyone else baiting close by (within a mile or so) that could be drawing them away? weird that the were there then all of a sudden stop coming.
 
thats a nasty thread hijack right there... I love it,spit tea into my cup reading that.
Not a bear expert by any means but just finished a non-fiction book called the Black Grizzly Of Wiskey Creek ( good book btw.) anyway the experts they brought in all said the same thing as some of our own experts here. beaver. get a tail or carcass, its like a drug to the bears. they will come, black or grizz.




pharaoh2 said:
Bring someone who starts a bear defense thread. It's a known fact the bears come at them 5 times a day, your bound to see one. The question then will become should you use 00 buck, a slug or somthing else? :evil:
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I've heard if you take a can of sardines and nail it to a tree (don't open the can) it's supposed to work well. Put it up high so they have trouble getting to it.
 
Bring someone who starts a bear defense thread. It's a known fact the bears come at them 5 times a day, your bound to see one. The question then will become should you use 00 buck, a slug or somthing else?
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BTW This only works when hunting season is closed. This time of year there's no need to defend myself... That said if anyone knows of a nasty bear that wants to try his hand at attacking me I'm all for some tactical bear hunting...... :D
 
Leave a bag of garbage on the porch... :D

But seriously, in all the time we have been trapping nuisance bears around here, It still surprises me the number that walk by a trap with a veritable "buffet" inside, fully ripe and stinking for miles. Many more "experienced" or cautious bears really do know when it is too good to be true.

If your bait isn't working, try to simplify before you get more complex. I would try the carcass or a single bait. I have never tried the honey burn, but it is on my list for the next overly stubborn bear.
 
I've got a bag of fish guts in the freezer if you want em. Saved em for bear, but haven't got around to using em.

There yours if you want em.
 
crazydave said:
Do you happen to have your stand anywhere close to a oat field? if you do that is where you will find the bears.
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Oats to bears is like catnip to cats. They roll around in it and slobber all over it. My cousin's husband and 2 or 3 friends killed 9 bears in their oats fields several years ago. This was along the Dokis road at the west end of lake Nipissing.
 
i like to us maple syrup instead of honey .i us a copfee can with a smaller soup can inside have a small canndel to heat it up you only need a very small flame it smells so nice sticky sweeet yummmy DUTCH
 
I can understand the frustration as bears seem to change their feeding habits this time of the year, if anything they should be going overtime on chowing down right now. They were on my bait all day saturday while I was helping build a garage and then sunday there was nothing while I was in the stand, they wouldnt' even show up when I would leave for a few hours...

I had come back into town yesterday to work around the house and one ran accross my lawn around 6:30pm yesterday.....muphy's law I guess.
 
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