Another Bear Bait Question

[NorthernOutdoors]

I've got a bunch of bakery to use this season, but I'm wondering if I should be using a few other things as well. I was thinking about getting some whole corn and mixing it with molasses. On top of all that, I'll be using grease. Any thoughts on this setup and if the corn/molasses is a worthwhile addition. Thanks for the help.

[Boar]

A variety is always good, oats am mollassas works well, same with corn, pour some mollassas over the pastreries to. Let the paisteries soak up the grease they love that stuff. Good luck boar

[jay83196]

Boar, you think too much variety ever bad or mixing it up a little, say dog food one time oats the next etc? Or slop it all in each time, more the merrier...

[KGPZ]

Keep em' curious- keep em rewarded.

[Boar]

Jay, make some seperate piles in the crib of the variety you have an see what a bear likes, then go with that, I had a bear accually turn down dogfood, so I stopped using it at that site. You have good stuff, if you see a pattern in the food a bear is eating, then adjust to that like or dislike. Good luck, getting close, I'm already getting the evil eye from the wife. Boar

[jay83196]

You and me both boar thanks do You use molasses and or honey? Or just grease?

[Boar]

I've used mollassas an oats an corn before but prefere the grease an pasteries. Boar

[NorthernOutdoors]

boar... do you completely soak the pastries in the grease like filling a bucket half with pastries and then topping it off with grease or do you just drizzle some grease on top of the pastries at the bait site?

[Boar]

Yea I store my pasteries in the bucket with grease, keeps forever an carmelizes to almost candy. Just gotta leave enough room for expansion. No need for drizzling. Boar

[NorthernOutdoors]

Thanks for the advice, it's much appreciated.

[cherokee]

It works. Thanks for the tip Boar. I have 7 five gallon buckets going. One thing I did is I topped the whole mess off with frosting. My Jack Russell just licks her lips when I check on it.

[lakeshoremunster]

Okay question for you guys using Boar's bucket meathod, how many gallons of oil do you guys use per bucket if you fill it almost to the top with bread, and also what kind of bread are you guys using.

I just hit the mother-load today with bread, my brother finally took me to the place he goes for bread today and we hit them up right before closing and I got 7 1/2 big boxes of bread for dirt cheap, now my freezer and fridge is full of bread and bait, boy those bread were mighty tasty.

Got a bunch of garlic loafs, multi grain rolls and chibatta bread.

[Boar]

I dont pay attention to how much is used, I put bread an pasteries in an stuff it down a littel but not hard packing, till the buckkt is about 2/3rds full or so an I pour in grease till just covers the top of the bread pasteries an put the lid on. If you pack it hard the grease cant flow down around the pasteries an just stays on top. One thing new i've been doing for a few weeks know is I have a staging tub. A big 32 gallon tub an I dump in a whole bunch of pasteries an totally submerge them in grease, then when I get a new load of pasteries I put them in the fridge, an transfer the pasteries in the tub to buckets, an then from fridge to tub an start the proccess all over again. It gives the pasteries time to soak up grease an saves alot of time an eliminates the possibility of expansion seepage which is messy an cat littler is the only way to take of that mess. Later boar

[Boar]

Your welcome cherokee good luck, boar

[cherokee]

I think I got about two gallons in mine. Maybe not that but I know a gallon for sure.

[lakeshoremunster]

Thanks for the fast replies guys, I did a few today when I got back home with all the bread, I had to rip the garlic and onion loafs into quarters because they were too large to fit into the buckets, but I got about a gallon and a half into it and it still wasnt full.

But Boar I like your meathod of letting them soak for a bit before they go into the buckets.

[bogwalker]

Boar, Where did you learn this method of preserving bait?

[Boar]

A guy at work suggested it a few years a go, so I decide instead of carrying two buckets, one grease an one goodies, I combined the two, an had some left over after the season ended an he said theyd be fine with out freezing an wallah! in the spring I opened u[p a bucket an it was even better than when i had filled it. Boar

[lakeshoremunster]

so does this meathod make the bread kind of water proof also, because I checked the weather for next week and there is rain in the radar.

[Boar]

Well no but that would be cool, the bread will break down under rain of course but the greasey odor will stay around for awhile, you can smell my pits before you get to them if your down wind. Boar

[lakeshoremunster]

it would be pretty sweet if it made it water proof to rain but I guess not,

hopefully the cookie dough holds for in the rain a little better than the bread will.

Still wish I had my doughnut hook up but I dont, oh well

[Boar]

with stuff that breaks down like that, in your crib, dig a good pit, layer the bottom with some small branches an brush, then put the bait on top of that an then cover with big logs an such, the rain will pass thru an hold in the bottom of the pit an be abosrbed by the soild an keep the goodies pretty dry, but nothing works against a heavy down pour. Plus there has been a disscusion about the legalities of pits dug on state land. Private land I wouldnt worry about. Boar

[cherokee]

I have a 5 gallon bucket of corn fermenting right now. I have burnt honey and frosting mixed in. This should be pretty waterproof. Don't forget about sunflower seeds as being waterproof. Bears love them.

[Boar]

Thats a nice mix, but if it sits in a pool of water it would get pretty soggy would'nt it?

[lakeshoremunster]

how are you fermenting your corn, if you dont mind me asking

and how well does it work