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Old 02-18-2015, 10:48 PM
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Default What do you use for bear bait?

Hello AO.
I have been speaking with several members about what they use for bait.
Lots of different baits and the reasons behind using them.
So lets hear what you use/ your bait set-up!

I will go first.
I dont use meat very often. Usually use a 5 gallon pail filled with a dozen timmies donuts and 75% water and 25% honey. Put it in the freezer and it will usually stay semi solid for 48 hours once removed. Once that bait is melted and eaten i use donuts in a barrell with peppermint extract on them. Seems to work and very few critters touch it other than bear.
Thinking about using beaver again this year, paired with the above setup.
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Old 02-18-2015, 11:08 PM
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Always got a 5 gallon stink bucket .. usually fish remains from ice fishing season , and then its cheap dog food some type of grain and popcorn.. always have a beaver in steal case so they really have to work at getting it out !!
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Old 02-19-2015, 03:40 AM
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I quad out my genny and hot air popcorn machine, Fill a few 5 gal pail with reddin orvillbakker, ha, and good to go.
5" oval hole in the pail lids, but rope them, peg to the ground.
Re do it if they've cleaned it out.
Even works good in a bit of rain as bears rarely stand up the pails, or leave then upright.

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Old 02-19-2015, 05:23 AM
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Best bait I have ever used was German Rye bread that I used to buy at a bread maker in Winnipeg at 5.00 a big industrial bag, that they were about to throw away. I would fill up a 45 gallon drum stuffed full.

In front of the barrel I would scrape away all of the leafs etc and put down 20 to 40 liters of used restaurant grease, so that every bear that visited the location would leave a great secent trail back to my bait from wherever it went.

Every time I baited I would bring in a coleman stove and burn a can of honey and or a package of bacon until it was burnt to a crisp. I would also hang a bucket of honey and honey combes that I would get from a local bee keeper and hang it in a tree where bears could not get at it and where the sun could heat it up during the day.

This setup worked great for me and what I like about this set up it that I didnt have to deal with any stinking animal parts, carcasses or roting fish.

Biggest Black bear had a skull measurment of 22 1/4"
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Best bait.... used tampons. hang em in trees like christmas decorations. Guarantees to bring in Boars. And best yet, its not considered baiting. So start collecting them guys....
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Best bait.... used tampons. hang em in trees like christmas decorations. Guarantees to bring in Boars. And best yet, its not considered baiting. So start collecting them guys....
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Old 02-19-2015, 12:05 PM
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Best bait.... used tampons. hang em in trees like christmas decorations. Guarantees to bring in Boars. And best yet, its not considered baiting. So start collecting them guys....
Not baiting ? How so ? is it not an attractant ?
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Best bait.... used tampons. hang em in trees like christmas decorations. Guarantees to bring in Boars. And best yet, its not considered baiting. So start collecting them guys....
I'm trying to figure out the punchline.
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