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Title: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 04:25:00 PM: I have had my cam in its spot for 2 weeks and only have one image of an animal not sure exactly what it was cause my cam was too high. It is an area full of old rubs that havehealed over multiple times and last year I found the area and had tons of fresh rubs in it at the end of the late season. Do I put bait out to draw them to my cam OR do I keep the cam soaking till late season to see what kind of bucks I get during the rut? I am an archery hunter just to clarify. Thanks guys :tup:
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: hogslayer on August 30, 2013, 04:28:33 PM: If you found the rubs during the late season then the buck was running during the rut and they rut in a different spot then they live during the year. I would wait tell the apples get ripe and start putting apples out. Don't worry if you only get does at first. The big boy will soon follow.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 04:32:04 PM: I wont disturb there rut area by putting apples in the area? I'm talking its got a ton of rubs so I don't want to mess up their area for when they come to use it.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: vandeman17 on August 30, 2013, 04:35:32 PM: I am thinking that the area you are in is an area that the deer use later in the season and during the rut. I bet if you leave it out there you will start to see more and more critters show up. Are you on a well used trail? Bait would help but if there aren't deer in the area then it doesn't do you much good. I believe that bait doesn't draw the animals in but more just stops them as they pass and/or keeps them coming back once they have found it. :twocents:
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: bmccalister on August 30, 2013, 04:38:18 PM: You could bait the camera, but because they are in the area so late they may be bucks which migrate and are not even in the area until the rut. I would recommend moving the camera to an area where you know there are lots of does. If you find the does you will find the bucks. Good luck.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 04:43:23 PM: Quote from: vandeman17 on August 30, 2013, 04:35:32 PM
I am thinking that the area you are in is an area that the deer use later in the season and during the rut. I bet if you leave it out there you will start to see more and more critters show up. Are you on a well used trail? Bait would help but if there aren't deer in the area then it doesn't do you much good. I believe that bait doesn't draw the animals in but more just stops them as they pass and/or keeps them coming back once they have found it. :twocents:

Yeah its got tons of trails heading from the timber to the main trail. I put it at a intersection. I found lots of fresh poop on the trail and also in the timber but there are so many trails spread out that I just put it on the biggest intersection.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 04:45:00 PM: Quote from: bmccalister on August 30, 2013, 04:38:18 PM
You could bait the camera, but because they are in the area so late they may be bucks which migrate and are not even in the area until the rut. I would recommend moving the camera to an area where you know there are lots of does. If you find the does you will find the bucks. Good luck.

If I am hunting the front edge of the rut and the pre rut would they be there this year? it looks like they have used it many years.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: hogslayer on August 30, 2013, 07:59:48 PM: They should be. I am telling you though I would find some apple trees and start dumping a pack frame full every weekend at least. Sounds like you are hunting blacktail? If you are then the big boys won't be hanging out in the clear cut. They will be in the timber. So bait them with Apples. Once you get some bucks find out which direction they are coming in from and folllow there tracks back towards the home port. The big guys will only come out a few minutes before dark so you need to be close enough that you see him in those few minutes and blam!
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 08:30:50 PM: Quote from: hogslayer on August 30, 2013, 07:59:48 PM
They should be. I am telling you though I would find some apple trees and start dumping a pack frame full every weekend at least. Sounds like you are hunting blacktail? If you are then the big boys won't be hanging out in the clear cut. They will be in the timber. So bait them with Apples. Once you get some bucks find out which direction they are coming in from and folllow there tracks back towards the home port. The big guys will only come out a few minutes before dark so you need to be close enough that you see him in those few minutes and blam!

yeah I'm away's from a clearcut. yeah its blacktail. its a long skinny alder patch with timber on both sides and the ground in the timber is just overran and I mean beat up with dear tracks every place you walk and they head in the same general direction and intersect with the alder patch trail. the alder patch is about 10 ft wide and 1/4 mile long with a big bedding area at the end where it flattens out.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on August 30, 2013, 08:32:43 PM: *Deer
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: hogslayer on August 30, 2013, 10:28:17 PM: Sounds like you need to cut yourself a good trail and set up a tree stand.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: jnevs23 on September 01, 2013, 09:25:18 AM: I've been baiting one site all summer with salt, game block and apples. In the last 6 weeks I've had 2600+ pics. On 2 unbaited cams I've got maybe 100.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 09:49:26 AM: Quote from: jnevs23 on September 01, 2013, 09:25:18 AM
I've been baiting one site all summer with salt, game block and apples. In the last 6 weeks I've had 2600+ pics. On 2 unbaited cams I've got maybe 100.

sounds like I need to bait! haha
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 09:50:04 AM: now how to get apples for cheap?
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: billythekidrock on September 01, 2013, 09:53:24 AM: Quote from: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 09:50:04 AM
now how to get apples for cheap?

You can get lots of apples by asking to pick the up out of peoples yards. Ask if you can leave a bucket and often they will pick them up for you.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 10:09:19 AM: Quote from: billythekidrock on September 01, 2013, 09:53:24 AM
Quote from: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 09:50:04 AM
now how to get apples for cheap?

You can get lots of apples by asking to pick the up out of peoples yards. Ask if you can leave a bucket and often they will pick them up for you.
good idea.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: BULLBLASTER on September 01, 2013, 11:28:25 AM: bating will bring deer into that area..so yes do it... my buddy hunts blacktails and baits year round.... its amazing how many new deer show up... bating and a cam is the best way to really figure out what is in the area... its deadly in the rut... bring in the girls.... the big boys come in....
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: jnevs23 on September 01, 2013, 12:15:52 PM: I just keep an eye out for apple trees around town. My last couple loads were from a vacant lot with 3 crab apple trees. I also managed to get 6 bee stings in the process. I'm getting tons of pics but not sure where all the bucks I had on cam early in the year went. They will be back sooner of later
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 02:05:19 PM: is it rude to ask people cause I got tons of people with trees around my house.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: BULLBLASTER on September 01, 2013, 10:12:33 PM: Quote from: addicted2hunting on September 01, 2013, 02:05:19 PM
is it rude to ask people cause I got tons of people with trees around my house.

its never rude to ask anyone for apples or hunting permission, just be courteous and if they say no, just thank them for their time and move on. it never hurts to ask. if they don't like it its on them not you.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: Song Dog on September 01, 2013, 10:47:55 PM: I use salt blocks, peanut butter and creamed corn. I have a lot of deer and elk come in. The only down side is sometimes bear will come into the peanut butter also.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 02, 2013, 02:04:28 PM: what about pears? I got a buddy with a huge pear tree.
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: jnevs23 on September 02, 2013, 03:31:55 PM: im sure pears will work. Ive been dumping carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, squash anything I can get really along with the apples salt and game block. Its all getting chowed down
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: addicted2hunting on September 02, 2013, 03:34:51 PM: Quote from: jnevs23 on September 02, 2013, 03:31:55 PM
im sure pears will work. Ive been dumping carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, squash anything I can get really along with the apples salt and game block. Its all getting chowed down
excellent!
Title: Re: Baiting at your trail cam or no bait?
Post by: jnevs23 on September 02, 2013, 08:14:57 PM: sweet cob/wet cob mix works like crazy too. it will attract bears though