One bait & one scent..

[bogwalker]

If you could only use one food item as bait and one scent item for bear this year, what would you choose?

[Boar]

Hmmm thats a good question, Probabley dougnuts an the scent would half to be fryer grease. It's really hard to beat the pasteries for a bait. I've seen dog food turned down by a bear but never pasteries. Fryer grease for the abundance I can get an lasting power of smell an durability, even when it gets watered down it still smells. Boar

[CANOPY SAM]

Dried corn and molasses. Inexpenive, easy to get, haul and store in abundance, no cold storage necessary, and nice to work with. No filthy 5-gallon buckets, no smelly mess. Just clean, fresh corn and molasses smell.

Makes me wanna belly-up to the bait station myself.

[jay83196]

Candy, they love it and it lasts in the weather and Bacon .

[jay83196]

Bogwalker, what would you use?

[cherokee]

Trail mix and burnt honey.

[bogwalker]

Trail mix and burnt honey.

Cherokee, 1. Do you have trouble with bees when you use burnt honey?

2. "Cherokee" nickname or ancestry?

[cherokee]

Bogwalker, bees can be a big problem and what we do is keep the sweets like the honey and stuff slightly away from the bait. Learned that the hard way. I have never been stung but my brother-in-law has. Should have seen him run. LOL.

Cherokee is the name of the Ranger boat I run. Good old Polish/Cech guy here.

Dale

[pulleye16]

Watermelon and fryer grease...I don't know why but On most there bear I've seen, they were eating the melon I'd thrown out there first.

[Matt Breuer]

Molasses here as well.

Bees are a problem no matter what you use IMO! I'm allergic, and I dance around every bait station at some point during baiting because of swarming bees!

[bogwalker]

The only time I have had bees on my bait was when I used honey. A lot of bees and no bears.

[mudslinger64]

what do you guys think of the feed store molasses?i have heard a lot of bears don't like it and will shy away from it.i have used it in the past and have taken bear using it,but i am just wondering if maybe i am keeping the bigger bears away with it.but i have heard that regular food grade molasses works great so i am just wondering what your thoughts are on it.

[bogwalker]

I don't use molasses only because so many other guys do use it. If you want to know if there is a difference, test each at different locations or at opposite ends of the same crib. Try another site with no molasses.

[Matt Breuer]

That's odd about the bee's. Where there's sweet scent, there are bee's.

My dad's biggest bear was shot over oats covered in molasses. We use it off and on all season, and oodles of dead bears don't lie... they like it, big and small.

[cherokee]

For us it seems like more bees the better smelling the site is and the more bears that are coming into the site.

[bogwalker]

For us it seems like more bees the better smelling the site is and the more bears that are coming into the site.

Does the increase in number of bears also include large bears?

[bogwalker]

That's odd about the bee's. Where there's sweet scent, there are bee's.

My dad's biggest bear was shot over oats covered in molasses. We use it off and on all season, and oodles of dead bears don't lie... they like it, big and small.

Some bees are okay and I expect that. But when I used honey I had way too many bees and no hits on the bait.

Molasses is okay but I am not after numbers of bears just large boars. I don't want to use what everyone else is using for bait.

[cherokee]

Bogwalker, no. Generally speaking only one pit of the 6 or so may have a large bear on it. Only one time did we have a super bear coming in and my brotherinlaw blew it. Should have been a dead bear but he forgot to put a shell in the chamber. LOL. That bear never showed up again. That was the only bear hitting that site as well.