Bear bait?

[Special T]

Cool product. What kind of batteries does it use? I hard from a bear hunter that stale bred from the store and a 50 lb bag of industrial cooking sugar was the way to go. Haul the bread in  put in hollow stump and them spray with a surgar water mix. was best to mix as much sugar as the water could dilute,warm water, put in a 2 liter or other bottle and spray all over stump and bread... I have also heard about the jello and anise oil...

[BLKBEARKLR]

When I bear baited in Alaska, I used a 55 gallon drum chained to a tree, hole cut out of the top of it, only one way into the barrel. Have it set up so that they are in your shooting lane, they reach in open up the vitals and it is a good shot for you.

I only used dog food, maple syrup mixed with chocolate syrup, you can get everything right from costco by the gallon.  Instead of using a lot of scents, I would take an old pan out there, melt the crap out of the marshmellows, mix in jello and keep stirring and I would lay this all over the trees and things.

One thing you want to make sure of is EPA, yep thats right I said it. A lot of times you use grease it soaks into the ground. In Alaska everything has to be cleaned up when finished including the dirt, so would check Idaho rules out and see if this applies.

I have heard and seen a lot of different baits out there, one thing I told myself is if I am going to eat this animal, I dang sure do not want it eating spoiled meat, molded bread and other things that can go bad out there. With what I used I had bears hitting my stands within a couple of days and never had a shortage of them until I pulled my bait. Good Luck and have fun with it.

Joe

[BeeMan]

  This is the best bait I've ever used!!
And still do...............

[saylean]

Some guide I saw on TV used big 55 gal barrels with small holes on the bottom of them, filled with popcorn. The popcorn would slowly come out the bottom and force the bears to eat slow, yet keep them around. Not sure how many kernals it takes to fill one of them barrels, but it looked like a neat idea.

[BlackRidge]

I guess I'm glad baiting has been deamed illegal here... otherwise I'd probably stumble across someones sambuca pile and get shot by accident

[Rhinoron247]

On our Out of state hunts, we would take plastic milk jugs fill then half full of bacon grease.  Poke a bunch of small weeping holes in the sides.  Wrap them in burlap and hang them high above and out of reach on an active bait.  Make sure they got some direct sun light.  The sun turns them on and off switch.  Will keep the scent at the bait between refreshes.     

[L8NITE]

Over ripe cantelope will bring bears in for miles...also put  cherry jello and a little water in an old coffe can and put it on a can of sterno or small backpacking stove and burn it, the smell will carry for a long ways. I used rolled ration with molasses from the feed store in a 55 gallon barrel. You can also dilute molasses and put it in a pump up sprayer and spray all the surrounding area around your bait site. Just keep in mind that what ever you use for bait your meat is going to resemble the taste. So rotten meats are a bad idea. Good luck!

[Annette]

Rotton meat never bothered the taist of  the bear meat back in the 80s....

[billythekidrock]

Rotton meat never bothered the taist of  the bear meat back in the 80s....

I would agree. It takes a lot more than a couple weeks of eating to change the flavor. Maybe a few months along a salmon stream, but not not a short term bait.

[rasbo]

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[PNUTCHI]

Look up Jess at Baitem907.com , She makes quite a few things we use up here in AK.  It's the best around and pretty cost friendly too.

Other than that we use alot of popcorn and marshmallows and candy anything that's sweet.  You can also go with old fryer grease most of us don't because of Brownies, but since you won't have that issue go for it.
Brad

[saylean]

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[champ41]

Dig a hole 2 feet deep get some dog food and some grease (you can get it at a tavern or gas station if you just ask) then put a half bucket full of dog food and as much grease as you want into the hole then cover it up with the heaviest logs you can find. and dump some more grease on top of the logs. Bears would love it and it would easy and cheap to set up.

[BlackRidge]

Look up Jess at Baitem907.com , She makes quite a few things we use up here in AK.  It's the best around and pretty cost friendly too.

Other than that we use alot of popcorn and marshmallows and candy anything that's sweet.  You can also go with old fryer grease most of us don't because of Brownies, but since you won't have that issue go for it.
Brad

Good link!!  If I ever get to hunt in a state where its legal, I'll definitely be giving their stuff a try

[NRA4LIFE]

We used a lot of waste candy back in WI as any meat or meat byproduct was illegal.  My cousin got these 50 lb blocks of Skittles and other types that came in these cardboard barrels from a factory in Iowa.  We peeled off the cardboard and the candy was one solid block as hard as rock.  We cabled them to trees so the bear couldn't roll them away.  They would just sit there and lick it like a giant sucker.