Slimsawyer
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Favorite bait to use in September. Hunting in Wi rn and my baits have went dead. Hard to compete with the acorns and sweet corn.
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Favorite bait to use in September. Hunting in Wi rn and my baits have went dead. Hard to compete with the acorns and sweet corn.
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I'm in the U.P and been having good luck with Granola, Sugar Cones and pastries. I've tried pouring syrups or grease over the top, but have noticed Buck Jam works well. Maybe something with the minerals they are seeking. I'll also add in corn and oats to contrast the sweets. Now If I could just figure out something that kept them from being nocturnal.
Your lucky to have seen anything. This has been by far the worst year of baiting I've had. 3 bait sites in no-quota MN in an area I've always had success. Not a single bear has found a bait yet. We are going for a hail mary of scents this weekend, but it's quickly getting to be really bad news. Our season runs until October 15th, so we have time left, but I've already exhausted every last trick in the book. The only thing I could do is one of my baits could be moved a few hundred yards farther onto public land, which may help, but would also make the trek in there borderline insane. It would be wading a river pushing my boat full of bait and stand for about 3/4 of a mile. Can't walk the banks, too thick of brush. Wouldn't want to hike through the woods for fear of scaring everything away. I've tried every stink bait I could find. Fish in a bucket, rotten ham, one week we got a big load of outdated freezer meat which really produced a stink for 2 weeks. I'm already spraying a ton of vanilla and anise. I'll try some liquid smoke this weekend. Tried a honey burn. Jello powder. Pounds of bacon grease smeared all over trees at every bait, along with pounds of peanut butter smeared too. Lots of honey, molasses, and other sticky stuff at the bait which has been tracked around by raccoons.Favorite bait to use in September. Hunting in Wi rn and my baits have went dead. Hard to compete with the acorns and sweet corn.
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Well, I wonder if some other factor has displaced them from that area? Has that area run out of a lot of the other naturally present food sources they're used to visiting their for? Has some other species that can pester em, like coyotes or people started being around more? Have the deer skunks and whatever other things they might kill and eat gone strangely not present anymore in that area you're setting up at?
Where does the predominant wind blow to form there? Are there known bear areas where that scent will blow into?
Guess I'm just kinda figuring there's some parts about it that I'm sure are similar to calling for coyotes. You can go thru the motions, but if they're just not there, then nothings going to come in, ya know? And it's my understanding they can have a pretty broad range they roam.
Dude, I so feel you on that. This place I'm concentrating on now? The ruggedness and steepness of the climb... It's pushing me right about to my limits in terms of aggravating the injuries. Right now I need to make good on last years mess up. So since I had a shot opportunity way the hell up there, I'm sticking with it. And seeing decent stuff on the cams too. Some Bears included. But I'll tell ya... every time I go there I'm realizing how I need to start finding less demanding areas that house them, that I'm seeing in other peoples pics from my zone they posted up last year. Like places that are actually flat and not on the side of the "death hill", while simultaneously not being a place choking with too many other hunters. They're always out there... it's just a matter of finding them. Which requires more investing during the off time all the rest of the year..
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All I know for sure is Ill be trying a new location next year. I've done all I can this year.
Dude, I so feel you on that. This place I'm concentrating on now? The ruggedness and steepness of the climb... It's pushing me right about to my limits in terms of aggravating the injuries. Right now I need to make good on last years mess up. So since I had a shot opportunity way the hell up there, I'm sticking with it. And seeing decent stuff on the cams too. Some Bears included. But I'll tell ya... every time I go there I'm realizing how I need to start finding less demanding areas that house them, that I'm seeing in other peoples pics from my zone they posted up last year. Like places that are actually flat and not on the side of the "death hill", while simultaneously not being a place choking with too many other hunters. They're always out there... it's just a matter of finding them. Which requires more investing during the off time all the rest of the year.
We'll see.. but my son's going to need to begin his Eagle Scout rank stuff this year. And I gotta teach him how to drive. And also gotta keep lighting a fire under his butt about deciding on a few possible types of careers to pursue, so he can have some idea of what to begin looking for in colleges he'll apply for later, something I've never had to deal with, as I pretty much went right into programming right on the job after demonstrating lotta problem solving debugging skills while working in support back in the day.
I read where you guys have more wolves on cam than bear this year also. Is that a factor?
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I feel your pain man. I’ve had to move stands a half dozen times already because of our wolf problem in the Yoop. And this is strictly baiting sweets, confectionery.
It’s outta hand!