Bear baiting
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swampdog
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Anthony T.
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Anything sweet will do it. Molassas works well. I know bear hunters who fill socks up with mollassas and hang it by treelimbs so it can drip out slowly. They kill bears too so it must work. They will eat about anything you have extra laying around really.
birddog
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On my bear hunts, twice I've added to what the guides put out (usually pastries) by putting some Anise (available in the supermarket) around. It's a sweet attractant and a cover scent. Both times I used it, I got bears.
PS: Heading up to Maine in two weeks to bear hunt, can't wait!
PS: Heading up to Maine in two weeks to bear hunt, can't wait!
birddog
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We're going near Sherman. Other years I've hunted closer to Millinocket. This is a bit north of there.
redneck2
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I knew a guide that would go to local bakeries and get the older pasteries they were throwing out. Made sure to get the stuff with icing and fruit filling. Kept it in a freezer until a few weeks before season then start baiting.
I've heard that fish (maybe canned tuna, etc) attracts due to smell.
I've heard that fish (maybe canned tuna, etc) attracts due to smell.
NRA4LIFE
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Where I've hunted bear in Wisconsin, no meat or meat by-products were allowed. No fish either. Here in WA, no baiting is allowed. The Do-Good-Nicks voted to ban that about 10 years ago. In Wi, we used mostly pastries and candy. I lived in MO at the time and I was getting outdated Hostess items from the continental bakeries. I would get whole pickups full of the stuff for $5. Twinkies, fruit pies, ho-ho's, bread, etc.
ACP230
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The couple of years I hunted bears I used mostly what we had leftover. Turkey and deer bones, old bread, fruit, bacon grease, etc. I started the process off with a couple of cheap jars of grape jelly. I also used wild apples I picked on the way to my stand, but the bears weren't too impressed with those. The also disdained homemade pickles that the folks whose house I hunted in back of gave me.
In Michigan no metal, or plastic containers can be used to bait bears. So, I dug a hole in a small rock pile at the edge of a little clearing. Then put the bait in, and put the largest rock from the pile back on top. I could scope the pile from the top of the little ridge and see if the bait had been hit. The rocks kept other animals from getting in--most of the time. That kept the mess down. I did have a coyote or dog dig around the edge once, but it didn't get much. Bears would lie down and pull all the rocks toward them with their paws and then chow down.
I thought about applying to the bear license lottery this year, but missed the deadline.
In Michigan no metal, or plastic containers can be used to bait bears. So, I dug a hole in a small rock pile at the edge of a little clearing. Then put the bait in, and put the largest rock from the pile back on top. I could scope the pile from the top of the little ridge and see if the bait had been hit. The rocks kept other animals from getting in--most of the time. That kept the mess down. I did have a coyote or dog dig around the edge once, but it didn't get much. Bears would lie down and pull all the rocks toward them with their paws and then chow down.
I thought about applying to the bear license lottery this year, but missed the deadline.
Sunray
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Fill a large glass jar with bacon fat. Poke holes in the lid and hang it upside down high in a tree, close to the trunk, in the sun. As the sunshine melts the fats, it drips down the tree. Set your stand up so you can see the bottom of said tree. Yogi will be along.
salthouse
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Never done it myself but a hunting buddy swears by a mixture of the cheapest dry dog food you can find mixed with strawberry jello and a little water. My plumber goes out in the morning and cooks up a pan of bacon in the woods. Good luck- don't forget to post pictures of your hunt!
Dr. Dickie
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The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the camping ground in the Popemobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods.
A helpless Liberal, wearing sandals, shorts, a Save the Whales" hat, and a "To Hell with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically,
thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Liberal from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Liberal in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Liberal Environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy?"
"It was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom.""Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he sure doesn't know anything about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and snatch another one?"
A helpless Liberal, wearing sandals, shorts, a Save the Whales" hat, and a "To Hell with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically,
thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Liberal from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Liberal in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Liberal Environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy?"
"It was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom.""Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he sure doesn't know anything about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and snatch another one?"
Lupinus
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cover yourself in honey and YOU can be the bait 
damascusblade5
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Bear Scents
Check out http://www.bearscents.com I just used their bacon scent last week and had a large black bear try to come up my ladder when he smelled where I had sprayed it on the trees around me as a cover scent(not my brightest moment).He spooked when I tried to get my gun down on him,but came back the next evening and I got him. Make sure to put some sweets in your bait,any snack cakes or doughnuts.I put pancake syrup over them also.
Check out http://www.bearscents.com I just used their bacon scent last week and had a large black bear try to come up my ladder when he smelled where I had sprayed it on the trees around me as a cover scent(not my brightest moment).He spooked when I tried to get my gun down on him,but came back the next evening and I got him. Make sure to put some sweets in your bait,any snack cakes or doughnuts.I put pancake syrup over them also.
CATAMOUNT KID
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Bear bait
Try a smuge pot with bacan grease.
Try a smuge pot with bacan grease.
WTBguns10kOK
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Be a man, don't bait. You can't hunt a bait pile, it doesn't move.
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