Bear Baits

[Washing Lures]

Question for those of you that have more experience in baiting. I have had a bait set for a week with the only hits being wolves. Had 4 bears coming to this site last year. With wolves coming in will bears not come around? If so, should a person find a new site?

Thanks

[Boar]

Bear dont tolerate wolves. 2 things, shut it down an let them move on. Or relocate. Good luck

[Coldtrack]

Wolves have ruined a lot of baits for me.

[Boar]

If youve had bear ther in the past it might better to just shut it down and remove all bait for a while. How long? Not sure. 5-7 days maybe. Good thing abiut that it will be right up to hunting and could draw bear from other site. I would soack the area well if u do it that way

[Washing Lures]

I will try pulling the bait for a while and see. Pretty sure there aren't any baits within a couple of miles from me.

[rkhinrichs]

im in the ely area. and nothing has hit my baits. so i will be out there on Tuesday to check them again.

[Boar]

I miss the ely area. Went to college up ther. Good luck

[rkhinrichs]

one bear has been chewing on my stirring stick about 100 yards from my bait and doing his business all over but is not hitting the bait. What does that mean?

[Boar]

Lots of naturals. It will happen. If i have supper from my own fridge. And take a walk later im not stoping at the buffet down the street. Or do u have site competition and hes full another site?

[Boar]

What do u find in his bussiness? The scat that im findingnis full off seeds from berries and nuts.

[rkhinrichs]

well I do not think I have any other people around me. I am pretty far back in the woods. Yes full of berries and nuts in the bear's scat.

[x1957x]

WOW ProTrapper. Hard to imagine you have even 40 baits out with 37 hits!!! How do keep up with that many? You must have alot of help.. My Buddy (guide) Used to run 20 or so and it took better part of a day with a friend helping. I envy you if you can!!! Hey, out of curiosity. How many baits can a Guide have? Is it unlimited ?

[Boar]

Inthink its threenbaits per lisence hunter.

[x1957x]

Thats what I thought to! But it could be different if you are a registered guide. Whats it cost for a guy to become a licensed bear guide Boar?

[Boar]

I used to know not sure

[Coldtrack]

5 out of 6 were hit today, big bear hit in the lite. Here is a nice little chocolate. We are seeing more of these around every year, my mom and son both killed nice chocolates in the past in this same area.

[protrapper]

WOW ProTrapper. Hard to imagine you have even 40 baits out with 37 hits!!! How do keep up with that many? You must have alot of help.. My Buddy (guide) Used to run 20 or so and it took better part of a day with a friend helping. I envy you if you can!!! Hey, out of curiosity. How many baits can a Guide have? Is it unlimited ?

Used to run a lot more baits than that. With the low lottery tags not as many hunters. I have helpers. I take three weeks off. Don't think MN is taking more guides on. They cracked down on the crooks. I'm state snd federally licensed bonded and insured. Three baits per hunter and three per guide license.

[Boar]

Curious, so then when your clients hunt ends so do the 3 sites then right?

[MahtowaDave]

Love the color phase bears coldtrack. My brother was a hunting guide in montana/Idaho for 20 years and there were so many color phase bears out there when I would go with him that it was amazing. Of course, nearly all of mine were black there too! Got one beautiful cinnamon one year, but was smallish.

[MahtowaDave]

My son and I got hit right away on one bait. One solid boar, I would guess around 225-250? A decent sow with two cubs wont leave it alone. I baited on friday instead of saturday (couldn't wait any longer) I'm O.K. with the sow and cubs for now because they contribute 12 more feet greasing up the surrounding area. Cubs are tiny and fiesty. Cams turned in every direction and videos are mostly hair after the first couple. I head back up on tuesday again.

[protrapper]

Curious, so then when your clients hunt ends so do the 3 sites then right?

Yes.

[Boar]

O thamks trapper.

[icehole10]

checked the baits on Saturday and we got 6-10 working good. Just dropped bait on Wednesday, so that was only 3 days, with some rain in there to boot. The baits that didn't get hit, are in an area that has a lot of raspberries and black berries.

[Boar]

this is the quickest ive ever been hit

[Boar]

we fished baitingthat site about 730 on the 15th