Baiting

[Westsideelkchaser]

I know you can’t bait bear however they are plentiful and a predator so I like seeing them killed. My dilemma is I had a hot spot that is still good but I have found a persons bait now for at least 4 years and it has made my hunting worthless as they hit the bait and not the berries. I’m actually pretty mad because I could easily kill a bear in a day when the berries are ripe now I keep finding the baiters site and all the bear sign is around that obviously and I find gut piles from bear they killed but when I try to report it it goes nowhere

[Dan-o]

Don't steal the camera. 
That's theft on your part whether their doing something illegal or not. 

Do report it.

Do follow up on it.

Good luck.

[hunter399]

Id definitely keep your face off there camera.
Id still hunt it but keep a distance,like 1000 yards away from that site. You shouldn't be punished,cause someone else is stupid.
10 points toward special permits ,if you don't turn them in somebody else will.

[duckmen1]

Yeah it sucks for sure. One year I was calling in a clear cut for bear. It was a thick cut so after calling I started creeping onto slash piles quietly and tried to glass. Looked down and found apples buried into to slash pile. Thought it was weird. So went onto another slash pile. Same thing. Looked up the ridge and saw a guy with rifle shouldered pointed right at me. I jumped down and crawled out of site. Realizing a baiter was there and taking aim at me. Scared and upset I called the warden. He followed up and went into investigate. He said every slash pile up there was full of apples and he planned to sit for a week straight up there till he caught them. I never did hear a follow up but was very happy to see the response of this warden. He was a good guy.

[fishngamereaper]

NFS, DNR , wdfw, or private timber Co.?

Timber Co. will bait and hire guys to whack and stack bears to save young tree's.

[Bowhunter3]

NFS, DNR , wdfw, or private timber Co.?

Timber Co. will bait and hire guys to whack and stack bears to save young tree's.

So I would assume it’s money that gives them the ability to bait?

[hunter399]

NFS, DNR , wdfw, or private timber Co.?

Timber Co. will bait and hire guys to whack and stack bears to save young tree's.

So I would assume it’s money that gives them the ability to bait?

Yes and no.
Property damage,which causes lost revenue in future timber.
It doesn't cost them anything to get damage permits, probably some pictures and locations of "damage"(money lost).

At the same time big timber does very little for promoting the average boot hunter.

So it's win,no win , situation.

[Alan K]

Depredation permits start when damage occurs in the spring through early summer.  They aren't issued beyond early July, and they aren't just for large timber companies. They are available to any timber owner experiencing damage.  They also are boot hunts only, no bait, no dogs, no traps.  The only ones able to use such methods are government agents.

If anyone is seeing bait in the woods this time of year, it needs reported.  No doubt illegal for the 99%, but maybe tribal?

[callturner]

Possibly deer or elk baits, up to 10 gal is allowed. Not everybody does it but it is legal. I use grain and alfalfa pellets. and apples. Not everybody is baiting bears. I start in june

[Westsideelkchaser]

It’s been reported hoping to hear a reply tomorrow. It’s on dnr land so not a private timber company and I bait deer also so I can 100% tell it’s not for deer as it’s a lot of grease stains on wood and what looked like some dog food

[Jonathan_S]

Sounds like a place from which to move.

[buckfvr]

Sounds like a place from which to move.

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[Cougartail]

Baiting coyotes is legal. Many do it and hunt with thermals at night.

Sucks but whoever is doing it can as long as he kills no bears at the site.

[hunter399]

Baiting coyotes is legal. Many do it and hunt with thermals at night.

Sucks but whoever is doing it can as long as he kills no bears at the site.

I didn't think of that.
People bait deer,elk,and all kinds of critters!

[boneaddict]

Its only illegal if they shoot a bear,  until they make all baiting illegal its all good.    I think tribal can also bait bear.  I dont know that for a fact, but they can run hounds so why not?