Bear Bait

[EricBender208]

I’m in Post Falls.

I‘ll try and find the guys name, he was easy to deal with and had thousands of pounds on hand.

 

[Dixie]

Go to a butcher and get pork scraps.
Used it all and they will scoop out dog food, sweet feed ,bead, molasses, donuts to get at a nice chunk a pork fat.
Do a pork fat burn/smoke with charcoal and a steel coffee can and get ready if they are around. Had seven bears on a first day bait.

 

[N.ID7803]

Reviving this old thread. ‘‘Tis the season! Located in Coeur d’ Alene. Send me a message for details or find us on FB or Insta.

 

[BRWNBR]

Bait em 907 has some scent stuff that I won’t set a bait without. One is called nasty boar. It’s a skunk based long call scent ball you hangin a tree and will last a month or so. I’ve seen black bears go crazy for these things!!! Food wise, pick a source and go with it. But your scent to draw them in is 90 percent of the game I believe. A sow checking out a spring bait, just made several boars check it out as well.
I run dog food/fyer oil and watched bears eat the dirt when the food is gone. Sweeter is helpful but not crucial. Scent to get them there. Sustenance to keep them there.

 

[Curtiss.Moses]

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[Nick Muche]

Bait em 907 has some scent stuff that I won’t set a bait without. One is called nasty boar. It’s a skunk based long call scent ball you hangin a tree and will last a month or so. I’ve seen black bears go crazy for these things!!! Food wise, pick a source and go with it. But your scent to draw them in is 90 percent of the game I believe. A sow checking out a spring bait, just made several boars check it out as well.
I run dog food/fyer oil and watched bears eat the dirt when the food is gone. Sweeter is helpful but not crucial. Scent to get them there. Sustenance to keep them there.

100% agree with this. Two other excellent call scents are Knock-Out and Magnum Marten. The Nasty Boar is great as well.

 

[Coveyleader]

100% agree with this. Two other excellent call scents are Knock-Out and Magnum Marten. The Nasty Boar is great as well.

I find with the Knockout, it is so strong that if you put some in a small baby food jar, and poke one small hole, or even none at all, the scent lasts forever that way. If you spread the paste around, it’s strong as hell for a short time compared to a sealed jar, it’s that strong.

Example you open a jar use it, maybe 1/4 of a jar or less. Throw that sealed shut jar in your bait bucket with a lid, the scent escapes the closed jar, and will make that bucket smell for weeks. That shit is the definition of strong. The shipping charge is based on trying not to have bears rip your mailbox off the post.

 

[SpyRock]

What I do is load up on the niche essentials before leaving home. Your gold rush products, grease, and a few choice sweets. Keep the load light.

When you get to Idaho, find your nearest Murdoch’s and browse their ag section. Rolled oats, cracked corn, sweet feed, all readily available. And yeah, it brings in Idaho bears just fine.

 

[Customweld]

There was a guy on one FB's hunting pages selling pallets of Welch's fruit snacks. .35 a pound and the pallets were 1600 pounds. I really thought about buying a pallet. I'd be using them for pack snacks and not bear bait though!

 

[Coveyleader]

If you look around, I've found there is no need to pay for bear bait. I always spend a couple bucks on call scents, but at this point, grease would be just fine. To be up front, I bait in states that have lots of competition, but live where no baiting is aloud, so the right donut shop will yield more than you can deal with. I just made a run this AM and I have to be well over 500lbs of day old donuts right now. I have one small 2 inch hole in the barrel, and the bears go bonkers trying to get them out and it holds the bait longer.

I'm convinced bears that have to work a bait, stay longer.

 

[BRWNBR]

I used to run barrels with one small hole and then went to no barrels at all. What I did find was the bears didn’t stay noticeably any longer, but with food on the ground we had a lot more bears feeding together. Multiple bears at a time. There was room for more to feed instead of just one.
So we went from one bear at a time to sometimes 8 at a time.

Downside…you go thru a lot more food!!

 

[SpyRock]

If you look around, I've found there is no need to pay for bear bait. I always spend a couple bucks on call scents, but at this point, grease would be just fine. To be up front, I bait in states that have lots of competition, but live where no baiting is aloud, so the right donut shop will yield more than you can deal with. I just made a run this AM and I have to be well over 500lbs of day old donuts right now. I have one small 2 inch hole in the barrel, and the bears go bonkers trying to get them out and it holds the bait longer.

I'm convinced bears that have to work a bait, stay longer.

A man can get all the bait he wants if he hits the right dumpster at the right time!

 

[Coveyleader]

I used to run barrels with one small hole and then went to no barrels at all. What I did find was the bears didn’t stay noticeably any longer, but with food on the ground we had a lot more bears feeding together. Multiple bears at a time. There was room for more to feed instead of just one.
So we went from one bear at a time to sometimes 8 at a time.

Downside…you go thru a lot more food!!

No issues with ravens there? Anything not protected in some areas will be crushed by Ravens in a matter of hours. I had one spot, (I know longer bait there) where I've had photos of +50 ravens in one photo, swarms of them. I thought I had a few of those photos still, but this is the only one I could find, the other photos were 2x 3x times as many. Flipping trees were full of them.

 

[BRWNBR]

No issues with ravens there? Anything not protected in some areas will be crushed by Ravens in a matter of hours. I had one spot, (I know longer bait there) where I've had photos of +50 ravens in one photo, swarms of them. I thought I had a few of those photos still, but this is the only one I could find, the other photos were 2x 3x times as many. Flipping trees were full of them.

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Yikes!! Ya no issues with birds, or squirrels here.