baiting bears

[snowy river black and tan]

Hey guys bear season is just around the corner and I was wondering what some of your bear baiting methods are.

[cecil j.]

Hey guys bear season is just around the corner and I was wondering what some of your bear baiting methods are.

baiting bear if it`s done right / like hanging strips of bacone in a trai down through a made pathway (route ya took too strech-out the way an direction ) too follow is good/ wiloates no laws that dfg can think-of and works ..................////////////////////////////////! I have seen bear croud-up-into established bait piles of 200-800 lb bait and they wollow in it and sleep near-it/ then your goen too get a whole bunch of split tracks when ya turn loose /////////////! Bait works best too get bear intoo the area you picked-out that you want too run in with your dogs . Look through the woods (walk it out yourself) learn were any elbowd limb trees are and check too locate deafted trails you can use too get around on when ya follow out after the dogs once there on track I`m mentioning all this because too me what area ya string-out the baccon in and available oppurnitys for the bear too go up and your knowledge of the woods there too those good trees for a bear to use/ means way more than any of the rest of it. Big bait piles brings rigg box-top strike dogs that 8/10 time instantly strike open just winding the put-out bait pile . So youd be putten out bait 4 everyone not just 4 you ! jack

[bearbredplotts]

i walk up these old logging roads that are so grown in you couldnt drive nothing. along these logging roads is the grass that the bears eat when they first announce their presence.
after i find sign, i lay out a small bucket(1. gal) of sweet cattle feed. i also like to use anise oil. i put the anise as far up a tree as i can possibly reach, and let it drip down all over the tree. Loganberry oil is good too.
after that i put up my trail cam and take notes of all the bear that come in and try to time the bigger ones.
i like to rebait at the same time every day after they start hitting the set. after i got the big guy timed i then bring in my dogs and the race is on.
it seems to me that when a sow with cubs hits the set, she will usually claim it as her own and run all other bears out of there. shes smart, shes got to feed herself and two cubs- a free meal is worth fightin for i guess.
i use this same setup along roads where i want to get a strike when the dogs are on top. the only difference is a want the prevailing winds to blow bear scent into my dogs nostrils.

[Spanky]

Every state has different laws regarding distance from roads and containers so you have to apply what is legal in yours. I used to use onion sacks and hung them from the tree. The sacks would be filled with old bread and sweets along with some sweet feed. This prevents the bear from grabbing a piece and running off with it if you have a stand hunter.

The biggest and most important is the cooking grease. Pour it over the sack and make sure there is a area below the sack that is cleared of all debri so when the grease drips off the sack it will saturate the ground. You can do the same with a barrel or log jam set. Once the first bear hits the bait he will leave a scent trail back into the woods for all the other bears that are traveling through

[snowy river black and tan]

Thanks guys all great ideas. I learned this from a friend, but what we do is find a place we want to run bears. I buy grain. Oats, barly and cracked corn with molasses. I take a 90# bag haul it where Im going, dig a hole and throw it in. I also haul 3 gallons of used cooking oil and dump 2 gallons of it on the grain. Then I cut up some logs and throw it on the bait and dump the last gallon of grease on the logs. The logs slow the bears down. The grease on the grain realy attracts the bears and keeps the deer and elk away. If the bait runs out the bears keep coming back and chew on the grease covered logs. This works good for me because I have to drive about a hour and a half to spring bear hunt. The bait usualy last about four days. Witch is about how often I go.
The grain is easy to haul and doesnt make a mess. The dogs dont have a problam striking with the grain on top of the dog box. The only problam is the price of grain is going up fast.
I realy like the idea of hanging something up in a tree. Has anybody used a stink bait, using this method.
Hope this helps somebody out. If somebody does any thing else let us know.

[cecil j.]

Thanks guys all great ideas. I learned this from a friend, but what we do is find a place we want to run bears. I buy grain. Oats, barly and cracked corn with molasses. I take a 90# bag haul it where Im going, dig a hole and throw it in. I also haul 3 gallons of used cooking oil and dump 2 gallons of it on the grain. Then I cut up some logs and throw it on the bait and dump the last gallon of grease on the logs. The logs slow the bears down. The grease on the grain realy attracts the bears and keeps the deer and elk away. If the bait runs out the bears keep coming back and chew on the grease covered logs. This works good for me because I have to drive about a hour and a half to spring bear hunt. The bait usualy last about four days. Witch is about how often I go.
The grain is easy to haul and doesnt make a mess. The dogs dont have a problam striking with the grain on top of the dog box. The only problam is the price of grain is going up fast.
I realy like the idea of hanging something up in a tree. Has anybody used a stink bait, using this method.
Hope this helps somebody out. If somebody does any thing else let us know.

yrs ago wed get a 100 lb sack size burrlapp put chunks of bones/suiett an meat in there then add fish oil and pan greese from baccone alo put lots of molasses in the sack . hang it up and dragg the dirt road clean and come back the early next mornen an run off it ! Ya can`t bait that way in alot of states no more and I learned a bear not feeden off bait an started naturally an worked-up cold trailen out the track/ ya tree a larger percentiage of bear on yor turn looses !openions may change but facts remain !

jack

[beardogger4life]

snowy river up here in wa when we used to be able to bait we would go to different bakreys and get day old bred products(bread, doughnuts, ect. that are past the experaion date) and they would let us load up the truck for like ten bucks. then we would go up in the hills and set up the bait near water. if we did not have a bear come in in a week we would use a beaver carcus and tiewire to a stick and hang as high in a tree as we could for a lure and before long the baits were getting hammered. bears love beaver meat i promise and it works great,although it also attracts bobcats but if the bear is there first they wont come around.

[Terry L. Zink]

I've always used grease, it is cheap, we put over a old dead stump. The grease gets down in the stump and those bears eat and dig all day. Then the deer and elk don't bother it.