spring bear bait

[fishermccann]

So you only hunt once a month?

[Fishy Wishy]

One more for the road.

but best bait is beaver...

I thought that is what we were talking about.

[alfoldivandor]

I would just fry some fat for day or two , it worked for me in the past in august beside the blubbery patch ,

[sawbill]

TD, I can't believe you suggest chicken and pork. Chicken especially goes bad almost immediately and I found bears won't even look at it once it starts to go bad. They wouldn't even touch chicken when it was still good! This is live trapping nuisance bears and the fall hunt I'm referring to though.

I'd stick with any meat scraps, especially beef.
I never liked fish that much either because it too goes bad fast and unless bears feed on it naturally, say suckers during the spring run, then it was usually left untouched at my bait sites. Again, I'm talking about the fall hunt.

The spring is much easier to get them coming to a bait because they're hungry. The boars are not that interested in food but being the season to be jolly, they've got other things on their mind. That's what makes them easy pickings.

[400bigbear]

TD, I can't believe you suggest chicken and pork. Chicken especially goes bad almost immediately and I found bears won't even look at it once it starts to go bad. They wouldn't even touch chicken when it was still good! This is live trapping nuisance bears and the fall hunt I'm referring to though.

I'd stick with any meat scraps, especially beef.
I never liked fish that much either because it too goes bad fast and unless bears feed on it naturally, say suckers during the spring run, then it was usually left untouched at my bait sites. Again, I'm talking about the fall hunt.

The spring is much easier to get them coming to a bait because they're hungry. The boars are not that interested in food but being the season to be jolly, they've got other things on their mind. That's what makes them easy pickings.

We used any scraps we could get Sawbill but pork and chicken was the preferred bait they liked . Our stuff was out of date but not sour . Our baits too were done daily by using onion sacks . We never had to barrel bait . Never used fish either . It can be a draw but bears can be picky . I've seen them even sort through the bag and only take pork or chicken . One year there even was a local lad whose freezer quit and had partridge breasts in it that he didn't want to risk eating himself . They weren't sour but the bears picked them out and left them but went at the chicken and porkchops etc that were also in the bag . Most of us were trappers too and we would try and hoard a few beaver carcasses . We would use some sweets but was never the base bait in the spring . Sweets though we pushed in the fall along with chicken and pork, beef .

We liked the bags because the bear would hit daily because he could not gorge and hole up and also he wouldn't have the energy or inclination to forage far . It's more work and fuel costs but once the clients got there they usually shot the first night on bait . 10-12 bears in a single week and we shut the operation down . In other words tagged out . Most bait spots worked year after year . We would start with around thirty baits then cut back . If we got sow with cub hits we didn't use them . If a bear was shot there it was rarely if ever hunted again till the following spring .


We would bait in the fall for Ontario residents but never cared to get into it much because we had our own stuff we wanted to do and wanted to bird and duck hunt ourselves or fish plus you want to leave some for seed for the next springs hunt . With the cancellation of the spring hunt I would only take on a few residents or close friends . I never liked eating fall bear either as much . Too fat and they are muscled up unlike when they come out of hibernation .


Our client base for spring hunt was alot of Europeans with some Yanks thrown in . They came for one week and went home . We rested after . LOL

And yes I agree chicken will spoil fast . Keep the baits fresh . Let the sun and cool areas guide you .

[eyeguy84]

hey thanks for all the awesome insight folks. Ill be using many of these ideas this spring and am excited to see what happens

[sweetbaits]

Sweets added with Alpha Bear Bait works Best. Bear Magnet TV has a bait barrel that is designed for heavy weight black bear hunting. I have used it on all my baits the Bear Magnet System works very well. Can't Say enough about it and very easy to use. Add sweets to the top of bait barrel and around the sides, plus smear/spread sweets all over logs, trees, and the ground. They use a pellet called Alpha Bear Bait. It literally works Awesome! Well worth the $. Hope this helps

[waltman]

So you only hunt once a month?

And only when he is grumpy ha ha so stay out of his way!

[northern_rednek]

Deer chow, they won't leave it alone.


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[Greenhorn]

I have lots of bear videos posted to get you pumped,lol.