Deer bait 101

[jasonl84]

Apples   

[jasonl84]

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[PNWheckle]

I'm new to this whole baiting thing and somewhat new to the trail cam stuff. About a week ago I setup a camera and apples in the timber here in Western WA along what I thought to be a well used game trail. I came back today to check it and not only are all the apples still there but no pictures of anything but myself. Am I just not thinking like a deer enough? Heres a picture to show you what the area looks like (thats me retrieving my camera).

[CP]

I put out a tube feeder full of corn last week and threw a few apples around, just a few because I don’t have many.  A bear comes along, chews on one of the apples, spits it out, pisses  on it and leaves.

 A day or so later he comes back eats the apple that he pissed on  , and the rest of apples, rips the bottom out of the tube feeder, then lies down and licks up the 5 gallons of corn that came spewing out.   He came back every day after that to sniff the feeder tube and chew on it. 

After all that this Tenaway trophy bull comes along and sniffs the feed tube.

Weird …   Looks like I'm done feeding for awhile.

[TRD1911]

Thanks for the advice. I Put out some apples and wet COB this week. Paid $16 for a 50lb bag; is that about average?

[BULLBLASTER]

I paid 11.99 for sweet cob in Spokane

[jasnt]

Only thing I hate about cob is it molds so easy. Prob won't be a problem this year tho

[huntnnw]

I dont use COB when I know it will rain...55lbs last about a day and half around here

[nwwanderer]

All of the fore mentioned baits are fine 'if' they have time to adjust.  Commodity corn is less than 7 cents per pound today.  Locally balanced vitamin mineral mixes are less than 50 cents per pound.  Fresh water is a big deal, the stars are aligning for a blue tongue event.

[huntnnw]

a fear I have is blue tongue where I hunt...no running water

[Wacenturion]

Picked up 320 lbs. at the Walmart in Shelton yesterday.  Price was $5.95 per 40 lb. sack.  Nice thing about this stuff is that the package date is printed on the bottom seam.  All the ones I got were packaged July 13, 2015.  Nice to know it's new stuff.  It also appears Walmart switched from the Remington brand to the now Wildgame Innovations brand.

They also had Primos Monkey Corn in stock....half corn and half deer attractant for $9 something a bag.

 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

That seems like a real good price. $5.95.

[jasnt]

A big reason I put in a watering hole at my food plot. Gets filled and over flowed while the irrigation is running. They will empty the water hole in a day and a half so it never gets stagnet

[Seabass]

Picked up 320 lbs. at the Walmart in Shelton yesterday.  Price was $5.95 per 40 lb. sack.  Nice thing about this stuff is that the package date is printed on the bottom seam.  All the ones I got were packaged July 13, 2015.  Nice to know it's new stuff.  It also appears Walmart switched from the Remington brand to the now Wildgame Innovations brand.

They also had Primos Monkey Corn in stock....half corn and half deer attractant for $9 something a bag.

 It makes ABSOLUTELY no difference how old the corn is! It's dry......it doesn't go bad. You guys are WAAAAYYY over thing all of this.

[huntingbaldguy]

Deer eat rotting apples.  They will eat 25 year old corn.