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Old 03-20-2011, 12:59 AM
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I saw a youtube video of a 10 lb. hard candy sucker, with a chain thru it, on a bear bait. The bears were sitting around licking the sucker, it looked like a good idea.
Anybody ever use one of these?
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Old 03-20-2011, 08:33 AM
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Here is one I tried last spring,they were the first things to disapear.

Home made bear pop 3lb.ers

Take 4 bottles of white Karo syrup
5 lbs of white sugar
1 bag of brown sugar
2 or three boxes of strawberry jello
1 bottle of cheap vanilla


get two (plastic) coffee cans ready and spray them down with pam or some non stick stuff. Make two handles out ot wire or coat hangers and make them to where they stand up in the coffee can.

Mix everything together in a Big tall pot. You need the room to stirr and a long handled big spoon.

Boil this mix, take care cause it bubbles lots and will burn the crap out of you. The bubbles on your hand wont go away like water, it just stays there and burns.
Boil this mix down for a good while. Keep a big bowl of cold water next to the stove. From time to time get a little on the end of the spoon and put it in the water.
Keep boiling it down till when it hits the water it turnes really tacky. When it gets to where you want it then at the last stirr in a teaspoon of baking soda. This makes it kind of froth up.
Then fill your containers, put in your handles and then put them in the freezer to cool off.
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Old 03-20-2011, 08:36 AM
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here is another one,never tried it yet

Bear lollypop recipe
5 pounds sugar, 5 pounds flour, 1/2 Gallon water, 1 bottle corn syrup, 1 bottle/ jar honey any size, 1/2 bottle of cooking oil wesson is fine med size not the one gallon jug.
Take a five gallon bucket line with Crisco put all required items in mix, mix, mix until it is all combined. Let sit till it starts to set up about 2-4 hours then place a u-bolt or whatever you would like to use to hang it in the middle and let stand for a couple of days.
Take to the woods after you remove from the bucket and hang from a sturdy tree limb.
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Old 03-20-2011, 01:29 PM
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I was told that adding cinnamon really made it irresisitable. It was a must have ingredient. Maybe brings in the Cinnamon bears better!!

I talked with a guy who ran his baits once a week, and the bear suckers held bears there when his other bait would run out. Seems like a good way to make a bait attractive all week long as the sucker lasts a very long time, bears can't run off with it, nor can they eat it, they can only really just slurp away on it making it great bait for longevity. One sucker lasts over a month on an active bait.

Seems like an idea worth trying.
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Old 03-21-2011, 01:02 PM
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I really really like this idea!! This will save alot on gas money for restocking and should allow for some really neat pictures!
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It's bear sucker construction night tonight at the Lodge, which means beers in the garage! I am going to try and get four made up, hopefully that will last through the season.
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