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only bear and game birds are illegal to bait. anything else, cougs yotes bobs deer elk moose etc, perfectly legal (for now) ive heard very limited things about people successfully baiting cougars tho. if anybody HAS done it, what did you use, what time of year, what age / gender of cat, snow/weather conditions, was it blind baiting or did you have reason to believe a cougar was close? any other pertinent info would be cool.
I've heard that beaver an horse meat are the best for baiting cougars. Not sure how you'd secure any of that though