Author Topic: bear bait? (Read 4929 times)

BULLBLASTER · « **on:** April 17, 2009, 08:12:19 AM »

anybody know where i can get some good bear bait in spokane?
anything that works, grease, bread, molasses, whatever else?
also, anybody know what works real well?

NRA4LIFE · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:22:27 AM »

April fools has gone and past.

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:29:43 AM »

thanks for the update i hadnt realized it was over so soon

... serious question, i am going to idaho to hunt bears and would like some real input, if you have any.

jackelope · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:37:18 AM »

eastmans had a bear bait show and nate was collecting leftovers from the local restaurant and keeping it all in a bucket to use for bait.

NRA4LIFE · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:39:12 AM »

OK, that's different. Try and find a surplus bakery store. They sell "day old" stuff and have to get rid of a lot of stuff that goes past expiration dates. If you can find a surplus Hostess outlet that can be a gold mine. Candy makers also. They have waste candy that they get rid of. Another great place. Any restaurant can be good too. Fryer grease can go a long way if you have old bread to sop it up with.

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2009, 08:56:01 AM »

cool thanks i will call around for old bread and fryer grease.

NRA4LIFE · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2009, 01:37:49 PM »

If it's legal in ID, bacon grease slathered on anything is killer. Same goes for carp and suckers.

whacker1 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2009, 01:47:49 PM »

check with some of the restaurants - Mike's old fashion donuts in the valley might be good.

elkkiller · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2009, 09:39:47 PM »

Go to a feed store and buy a 5 gallon bucket of molasses, another thing you can do, if legal, is cook honey or molassses.

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2009, 10:13:40 PM »

I like to use a PETA Activist, tied to a tree like he's hugging it, with a bacon headband, fruit roll-up shorts and maple bar shoes

smdave · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2009, 10:19:14 PM »

When we could bait here we went to the bakery and a local butcher for meat scraps, molasses over the top cover with some logs, you should be good to go.

Dave

rougheye · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2009, 10:22:09 PM »

Go to your local grocery store and ask the butcher for all the beef and pork fat , they ussually give it up for free . Nice and light if your packin a long way .

cohoho · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2009, 10:24:17 PM »

If legal------ The very "Best"..................Bear Crack---- Jello, cherry flavor, marshmellows, vanilla extract, honey and molasses, pour and mix in to a old pan at the site burn the jello, it stinks so freaking bad, add marshmellows and other stuff burn the p.o. out of it and then smear over a stump, tree branches, trunk, something it will absorb into, they will eat the tree to get to it and works amazing quick to bring them in first, then cheap dog food, smothered in grease... Old halloween candy for extra special treats and of course doughnuts, strawberry jam and the last thing a honey gallon bottle with a nail hole in it to drip down on your barrel... Have fun, I loved baiting and miss the heck out of it. Great way to be very selective over shooting boars only and better quality animals...

billythekidrock · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2009, 06:03:33 AM »

Do any of you remember that the last year or so of legal baiting that it was against the law to use anything processed? That would make most of the above illegal even if baiting were legal in WA.

Now if anything were legal to use then I would go with the original bear crack, Fructose, as the best. Purchase it by the bag, moisten it and let it harden into chunks. Light, easy to pack and you don't have make a mess by cooking it. If you wanted to render it or use it for smoke then just take a small propane torch to it.

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:15:30 AM »

went to the bakery and got a truckload of bread pies donuts etc. then to the store for jello and things for crack. went out friday afternoon to set baits and couldnt get where we really wanted to be but found some good sites, (the guy helping me liked them and he has done it before). set 3 sites and cooked crack at each one. didnt putthe barrel out yet waiting for a site geting hit good before we put the barrel on it and cameras. lots of mollasses and syrup... even i ate some of everything!!! going back to check if anything is hit soon. thanks for the help!!! its about an hour drive so not too far bu would be better closer

I WANT A BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:18:38 AM »

OH YA... and i got my hunting bow dialed in awesoe yesterday!! broadheads hit right with fieldpoints to 80 yards

and also loaded some bear medicine for the 45-70!!!!!!!

cohoho · « **Reply #16 on:** April 19, 2009, 11:44:44 AM »

Opposite for AK, no fish what so ever.. When did they stopp baiting here? Get them barrels out now so they get used to them and their smell.. Heck the bait isn't going to go bad, in fact it will probably get better as it gets ripe..... get it out so they also get used to it. I'd bait a month ahead of when I decided to hunt, they never cared if we were there or not as long as the yummies continue they'll be back over and over again. Word to wise get that cameras high up and angled down, buddy lost two expensive cameras to bears taking and chewing on them, one had a pretty nice metal box and lock on it but they managed to bust it up.... Anything that might have residue from when you carried the bait up will have that smell also and they will investigate it for sure, if it smells they'll give it a taste or chew for sure. Another thing, if you can find it is Old civil defense candy (1950-60's). Military bases have been throwing it away for years, comes in 41 pound metal boxes all sealed, all hard tack diet supplement candy.... Never said the bears in the area I hunted had the best dental and probably no lack of cavities...

Good luck and keep us posted, baiting is so much fun...

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:36:05 PM »

well, no confirmed bears yet, havent put barrels out just burying the bait (bread donuts pie cookies and syrup) under logs. two of my sites are empty every time in there, just hung cameras wed. we'll see. talked to some guys that normally bait the same general area and they havent been hit good either... too much snow. at least i am eating good on bait days though, pies and donuts are good with syrup, but cant eat a whole one of anything or i get too full

heading back in a few days to check cameras... something tells me i will get a few pics of some dufuses eating donuts and pouring syrp around though!!!!!

littlebuf · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:06:54 PM »

get a pick up load of apple fritters, they'll come to that

bigdave · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:09:13 PM »

When I was a teen still livin' at home, I would go out and flyfish for Bluegills at the lake in the spring when they were on their beds. I would freeze them by the bucket full. One hot July day when my parents were gone on vacation, I left three 5 gallon buckets of frozen bluegills out on the back porch to "ripen". Well, It got busy at work and I kinda forgot about them for a "few" days. I was workin' nights at the time. The afternoon my parents came home there was hell to pay and my Dad demanded that I get rid of them right away. Well, you guessed it one of the buckets tipped over in the back of my toyota corolla and that car never smelled the same again...ever.

Fish works though, the smellier the better.

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