Bear Hunt

Great story and display of determination and focus, to do that alone.

The picture of that bear caught red handed stealing the pale is hilarious.

Those trailcam pics are amazing. Lmao. That's one crafty bear you managed to outsmart. Congrats

Thanks guys, yeah the pics made my day. My wife still laughs about it.

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Originally Posted by fratri

FishHog can you talk a bit more (in detail) about your baiting technique. Seems a lot easier than hauling a 55 gallon drum.
Thanks

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Just a 5gal pail (plastic will work but get chewed up pretty good). I went to metal, drill 2 holes in the bottom outside edge (about 11/2" dia). I run a piece of all thread up through the bottom and the top with a wing nut on top. Couple washers and nuts to hold it there. Use the wing nut to get the top off, fill it up and put the top back on. I put a heavy rock on top so coons can knock it over, and a couple small rocks covering the 2 holes to keep the squirrels out.
I take the wire handle off the pail and drill those holes large enough to run a chain through and chain it to a tree, about 12' of chain.

They typically just roll it around and popcorn falls out. some are more aggressive and even the metal pails can take a beating, but they hold up better.

I pop corn in a turkey fryer pot, once I have a bear coming, I bait daily, but 5gal of popcorn in a garbage bag is easy to hike in with and seems to keep them coming. I had 2 sites that were active, but this bear seemed to be taunting me so I hunted him the most. Had a small one coming in as well that I could easily have taken, but I'll let him get bigger.

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You can see the pail better in this pic.

Great story and bear, congrats.

the picture of him taking the pail is priceless lol

Well done , a good source of plastic pails is your local restaurant. They may not have 5 gallon but will surely have the ones that are about 2 1/2 gallon and they will likely happily give them to you for free or real cheap just to get them out of the way. I have the 5 gallons that say tahini on them and the smaller ones that had mustard and mayo in them.

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Originally Posted by FishHog

Just a 5gal pail (plastic will work but get chewed up pretty good). I went to metal, drill 2 holes in the bottom outside edge (about 11/2" dia). I run a piece of all thread up through the bottom and the top with a wing nut on top. Couple washers and nuts to hold it there. Use the wing nut to get the top off, fill it up and put the top back on. I put a heavy rock on top so coons can knock it over, and a couple small rocks covering the 2 holes to keep the squirrels out.
I take the wire handle off the pail and drill those holes large enough to run a chain through and chain it to a tree, about 12' of chain.

They typically just roll it around and popcorn falls out. some are more aggressive and even the metal pails can take a beating, but they hold up better.

I pop corn in a turkey fryer pot, once I have a bear coming, I bait daily, but 5gal of popcorn in a garbage bag is easy to hike in with and seems to keep them coming. I had 2 sites that were active, but this bear seemed to be taunting me so I hunted him the most. Had a small one coming in as well that I could easily have taken, but I'll let him get bigger.

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Thanks for taking the time to respond. One day I may have to give that a try. Congrats again

Great story and pictures, well done

Nicely done congrats, too funny