Looking for quick results on baiting a bear

The fastest response to my bait site was using a recent stillborn calf, in my barrel, and strapped to a tree. I hung a bloodied piece of fabric above it on a limb, so the wind could catch it. Bear came in the very next day. I think it helps to wear rubber boots to and from your bait site, to decrease scent. Other things like sprinkled anise extract around the bait site and powdered dry jello, that gets tracked around by critters. Bears follow it back to the bait site.
 
Go about 20 mph over the speed limit and them bears will be wall to wall all over you.

Most of the cops around here congregate at the donut shop, so that seems like a pretty good bet.
 
Go to a bakery outlet and get the old Cinnamon buns and Honey buns they collect after a week and then sell as day old goods. This really works very well.
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You should also collect fryer oil from restaurants to throw into the mix. The trick to bear baiting is getting them habituated to your bait site where they keep coming back which means a lot of work replenishing your bait everyday or every other day. Plus you want a variety of bears coming in on it so you should be baiting for about a week or so before you start setting up on it. A camera trap helps with getting an idea on the numbers of bears and the time frame they come in on it.

The vast majority of my bait stand hits have been in the late evening. Of course baiting season in AK is in the spring and it helps that you have good shooting light until well past 1 AM. :D
 
I do what Hotdogs does and use alot of molasses or cheap panacake syrup, and I do mean cheap. If you get one coming in should be no problem. All the bait you mentiond should work o.k. I have a few stores that will save me there old or utdated meats, breads, dognuts, bacon etc. They will eat anything almost. Most the time I find a gully or dig a hole and cover it with loges etc. Unbelievable what they can move when they want to. I only shot one so I am sure you will get some good posts on here from folks with alot more knowledge of it. It was a black bear not real big about 250 or so, but the last one I will shoot. Lots of work. Most the time at least were I live it is warm, and you need to do alot of work fast, and know doubt have help. Like I said I dont know to much about it, and sure you will get some good input. I was using a 30-06 but there are alot of good rifles you can use for this. Good luck, have fun, and keep it safe! Like one post said grease from resturants would work great, and shoul be easy to get. Never thought of that.
 
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thanks everyone for the input and warnings Hogdog that was funny and true possibl grizz in my area should be interesting. Good luck hunting everyone shoot straight.
 
I have a local cafe scrape all the breakfast plates into a 5 gallon bucket that I pick up at the end of the day. Seems leftover hash-browns and bacon grease really brings them in.

This is the 450+ pounder I got 2 years ago using this method.
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ive herd of people cooking bacon on a small camp stove and having a bear to it in one day, somthing about the smoke carrying the sent. dose this really work?
 
Get a John Deere Corn Combine!

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A huge hibernating male black bear was killed Nov. 2nd in southern Chippewa County when it was hit by a combine.
Neil Schlough of Brimley was harvesting corn in a field on the Pinehurst Farm at about 7 o'clock that evening a few miles north of the Mackinac county line, just off of South Maple Road , or about 5 miles north of Kinross.
The bear was denning in the field, having dug a hole about a foot deep to lay in and pulled in debris from the corn stalks in on top of itself.
According to his wife, Phyllis, Neil came upon the bear with the outside row of his combine head and drove the outside snout into the animal's neck and shoulder and pushed it about six or seven feet.
She said Neil felt the combine strike something and the outside snout was pushed up into the air (the combine wasn't damaged).
"He stepped out of the combine and saw that he had hit an animal," she said. "At first he thought one of our dairy steers over there had gotten out, went in the corn field, ate too much corn and died."
But it didn't take long for Neil to realize it was a bear, but it did take longer to realize how big it was. She said he called her and told her he thought it weighed about 300 pounds.
The DNR was called immediately and Conservation Warden Jim Cleven responded.
A skid steer was taken to the field, and the bear was lifted up so that it could be dressed out.
"With the lights ... we could see that it was a pretty big bear," Phyllis said. "But we had no idea until the locker plant put it on a scale that it weighed as much as it did."
The bear was taken to the Soo Locker Plant to be prepared for mounting. It was there that the animal was first weighed and measured.
Field dressed, the bear weighed in at 618 pounds and measured 7 feet from head to tail..
The Schloughs were told at the locker that they could add 80 to 100 pounds, depending on the size animal, to reach an approximate actual weight.
"So we figure that bear had to weigh at least 700. We figure 700 to 720," Phyllis said.
It's too early to tell if the massive animal will break any records since the skull has to be dried for 60 days before it can be scored.
Phyllis says they believe it has the potential to break the state mark and will probably break the Chippewa County record.


More common
DNR wildlife specialist Jess Carstens said, "This is a thing that, for whatever reason, is happening quite regularly that [bears] are denning up in the middle of fields ? and corn fields seem to be particularly common . due to the amount of debris from harvesting the

corn that's on the ground. There's a little more stuff to pull in on top of them as they snuggle into the hold that they've dug."
Phyllis reported that they frequently see bears on their land. And she said she recently saw a sow and cub in a corn field that was being harvested.


A full-body mount
After paying $75 to keep the bear, Neil is having the bear full-body mounted by Tom Persons, owner of TP Taxidermy.
"He's hardly ever had time to hunt or fish or anything because of farming," Phyllis said of Neil. " And so, he's going to keep the bear, and he's going to have it mounted. He's really proud of his trophy.."
She said they were told by Persons that he'll have to use a grizzly bear form to mount the bear because there aren't black bear mounts big enough to do the job.
Person reportedly also believes the bear to be 15 to 20 years old, but a tooth will be pulled during the mounting process to determine its age..
According to Wikipedia.com, male bears can reach 660 pounds, but exceptionally large males can weigh up to 800 pounds.
Phyllis said Neil was recently trying to come up with a name for the huge animal that will soon occupy a large amount of space somewhere in their home.
"I thought this was kind of funny. He said, 'I'm going to name that thing Hercules.' ... I thought Hercules for that bear was a good name."
 

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BISMARCK, N.D. - A North Dakota man accused of illegally killing a 700-pound black bear in Wisconsin told authorities he had gone deer hunting and mistook the bear for a big buck, a game warden says.

Michael C. Graff, 57, of West Fargo, was charged Monday in Dunn County, Wis., with hunting bear during a closed season, shooting or harming a hibernating bear, and shooting a bear without a license.

Graff is slated to appear in court on March 22, said David Hausman, a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warden supervisor. Graff faces up to 27 months in jail and $30,000 in fines if convicted on the misdemeanor charges, the warden said.

Telephone calls to Graff’s home on Wednesday were not answered.

Wardens initially believed the bear had been killed by a combine in a corn field in November in northwest Wisconsin, but a tip from a citizen led authorities to Graff, Hausman said.

Wildlife officials in North Dakota and Wisconsin were involved in the investigation, he said.

Graff later told authorities that he shot the bear while deer hunting, and mistook the sleeping bruin for a big buck, Hausman said.

Graff has relatives in Wisconsin, Hausman said.

“That’s what brought him here to hunt deer,” Hausman said. “During the hunt, he encountered a hibernating bear in a corn field, and he shot it.”

Hausman said the bear was hit by a combine the next day, and the farmer, Neil Schlough, believed he had killed the animal and notified authorities.

“At that time, we didn’t have any reason to believe it had been shot,” Hausman said.

“We seized the hide and the skull as evidence of a crime,” he said.

Hausman said the farmer who thought he had killed the bear with his combine wants the carcass, and has threatened to sue to get it back.

“The farmer wants it back but I’m not going to speculate if that will happen,” Hausman said.

The bear could challenge the Wisconsin record for its size, Hausman said.

The size of the skull is what it takes to get it into the record book, Hausman said, but no official measurement had been taken as of Wednesday.

“A 400-pound bear is a big bear and this one is alleged to be more than 700 pounds,” Hausman said.

He would like to see the stuffed carcass on public display.

“Because of it’s unusual size, and the unusual case, it has a lot of interest,” he said.
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Bears don't see well, and find food mainly by smell.

Anything sweet or putird would likely work. Traditional Ontario bear bait is suckers or other non-game fish, the smellier the better.

Since bears are cannibals, a small dead bear might lure his grandpa.
 
One problem we have up here is Bears are actually being attracted to the sound of Gunfire. During Deer and Elk season, they know if they hear a shot, that there will be a Gut Pile soon enough. Many hunters take their bear after bringing down an elk or deer when they see it coming in while they are gutting their animal.
Just a little North of me, A friend of mine had gotten his Moose tag but could not hunt the area he was assigned because he was "bluffed" by a Grizzly every time he tried to go into his area. The Fish and Game dept told him that the Grizzly's were gaurding the gut piles from the previous deer season and that he was out of luck. They also said that if he shot a grizzly, he had better have teeth marks on him.
While target practicing last summer with a couple of big caliber revolvers, I had a Mother bear and her cub come in less than a hundred yards from me. It didn't occur to me until later that she was probobly looking for a gut pile for her and her cub.
 
ya true that happened to me in salmon id when i was elk hunting but didn't have a bear tag. last year i shot a bull in the tex creek unit and hunted the gut pile for three days and had coyotes only come in no bears but a ton of sign so i figured on trying to bait them cause i crossed a monster bear track hopefully its a huge blackie and not a grizz. Fish and game tell me there aren't any there but lately seem to have there heads up there butts
 
Idaho fish & game said there was not any here either, until the following incident occured just down the road from me.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is investigating the shooting of a grizzly bear near Rose Lake. The 300-pound male grizzly was shot dead late Sunday by the operator of an elk farm who told game officers that he mistook the grizzly for a black bear. “He said the bear had killed one of his elk. … He was looking to protect the rest of his herd,” said Chip Corsi, regional supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. “Rose Lake is not a place here you’d expect to see a grizzly bear.”
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The article states "300-Pound"... But I will see if I can dig up the picture. The bruiser had to weigh 700 or more.
 
A guy I hunted with in Canada used fish guts mixed with old cooking grease he got from McDonalds. He then put honey on bread in a plastic bag with a few holes in it and nailed it up about 6 feet high on a tree near the yummy guts and grease. It worked and the bear would scratch the tree with the honey and bread. You got an idea about the size of the bear.
 
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