Bear bating Q

[Pilsner]

So, after several years of "outfitting" for bear hunts over bait I am trying to be more efficient with my baiting. Since the rule is to get the most calories crammed into a bait barrel as possible has anyone tried the thing that is prolly the most liquid calories per ounce on earth - High Fructose Corn Syrup?
Application would me poured over corn, grains, trail mix, etc dry goods in bait barrels along with fryer oil treated with Gold Rush.
In the past I've mixed up sugar and flour and heated it to make what we call "ghetto cake frosting" but its a messy b!tch to work with and clean up.

Location: NW Arkansas - Boston Mtns portion of the Ozarks.
Thanks,
Doc

 

[go_deep]

My brother runs a guide service in Wisconsin for probably around 20 years. If a bear gets sick on your bait, it'll never come back, if you've ever ate to much sugar before, you know that that can happen. You need trail mix with oatmeal and nuts, low sugar cereals, beaver carcasses, dog food. I would consider corn syrup over dog food, I know guys that pour powder sugar over dog food.
Sugar is good, to much is bad.

 

[Pilsner]

My brother runs a guide service in Wisconsin for probably around 20 years. If a bear gets sick on your bait, it'll never come back, if you've ever ate to much sugar before, you know that that can happen. You need trail mix with oatmeal and nuts, low sugar cereals, beaver carcasses, dog food. I would consider corn syrup over dog food, I know guys that pour powder sugar over dog food.
Sugar is good, to much is bad.

We (we being myself and a half dozen other outfitters locally) have tried meat/protein based baits and since they aren't natural to our area the bears not only ignore them but never visit that bait site again. The quickest way to get a bear to abandon ship so to speak down here is to insert meat into the bait barrel.
I fully agree that once a bear gets his fill of what you offer he is gone. Your experience in that regard matches my own.

 

[go_deep]

We (we being myself and a half dozen other outfitters locally) have tried meat/protein based baits and since they aren't natural to our area the bears not only ignore them but never visit that bait site again. The quickest way to get a bear to abandon ship so to speak down here is to insert meat into the bait barrel.
I fully agree that once a bear gets his fill of what you offer he is gone. Your experience in that regard matches my own.

So, do you think a jug of corn syrup would seem natural to them then?

 

[Pilsner]

Dunno. I planted a food plot mix one year that had corn in it and it got hammered by the bears.
I am also unsure where a bear runs into a fryer to get oil out of it but they damn sure love fryer oil.
But meat - We have never had a bear interested in it at all. Although dog food has worked in the past. We ended up with a 55 gallon drum of high protein dog treats a few years back and the bears loved that. So who knows...