The Absolute Best Bear Bait in Bear Hunting

Is there a best bear bait? What works and what doesn't? This discussion is sure to help you understand that if you're searching for the best bear bait you're looking for the wrong thing. Bear Hunting.

[@glenanderson4351]

Good video, variety has been my motto for sometime.

[@bradbishop1893]

Spot on Bernie, we are definitely on the same page. I about spit my coffee out with your “I can relate” comment ! Good stuff.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Right on!

[@briancollum3176]

Great information Bernie,keep up the good work 👍

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Thanks! 👍

[@jimbade7254]

That's again for the info Bernie

[@rrhowe2]

I'm from Alaska, i have bean bear baiting for years. the best i have found is ANIS very strong smell that is and has been my number 1 scent. bears come to the smell, then they will relate that to food once they come in and see your bear bait

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Anise has been very overused in areas of the US and Canada where the bears receive significant hunting pressure. For this reason it doesn't get much use these days because people say the bears are conditioned to it. Can't say for sure if that's true or not.

[@rrhowe2]

@@BowhuntingRoad well here where I hunt I can tell you it’s essential. Where about safe you at.

[@earlsulfridge435]

I have been feeling sweet feeding for horses this past weekend I swapped to trail mix but the last week of sweet feed I had no pic of my bear

[@jimpeschke3435]

I've only tried popcorn once and had no luck with it. The poor weathering of popcorn is also a concern. I also struck out pretty badly with savory bait. Best luck so far for me has been sweet baits (candy, pastries) with a dog food base. I must say though that these videos have me thinking of adding granola or trail mix instead of the dog food. Don't have a cheap source though.

[@bobdanob5346]

Use cracked corn and lots of Kool aid or jello mixed with it

[@WyomingOutofDoors]

good information thanks

[@josephfolsom2030]

Trail mix is expensive. You might find me down in the feeding trough

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Good stuff!

[@haydengreenier3749]

Great video

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

The best bait is natural. Putting the bait pile under acorn trees or natural food sources helps. Chocolate is illegal here in Michigan.

[@bobdanob5346]

Love this channel 🤩

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ScottMackintosh]

I have a bunch of buckets of Peanut butter and buckets of Cake Frosting. I was thinking of mixing it with Corn or Oats. Oats costs almost twice as much as corn. Am I money ahead to go with the oats anyway or in your opinion, is one just as good as the other. Do you see a better way to utilize the Peanut butter or icing. I was also thinking of popping a bunch of pop corn but that just sounds like a LOT of work when I could get whole or rolled corn for $23.00 per 100 lbs.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

I would not even mix it. Just put it out there in the best way you can. Rolled oats keeps the bears coming back pretty well, but just straight oats goes right through them. Corn can work well if there aren't many other options for them, but when I have used corn to cut bait costs, it's the last thing they eat and the crows and ravens get most of it.

[@ScottMackintosh]

Gracias my friend. That’s what I needed. Best of luck with the cancer treatments.

[@TODDHARPER1972]

Have taken about 15 bears with popcorn and a juice crystal mix. Yes you have to keep the wet off of it. But it works and works great. Matter of fact other then using beaver popcorn is all I use in my 5 bait circuit.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

All depends on the area, the competition with other baiters and the availability of natural foods. In some areas, you'd never hold bears with that, but in some it works. Add beaver to anything and it helps. We can't use beaver in most US states.

[@wyattbieber2266]

Where can you buy this huge amounts of baits such as the trail mix

[@BowhuntingRoad]

I bought this at Lucky 7 Bear bait in Minnesota.

[@BigOlSmokey]

@@BowhuntingRoad just stopped there today highly highly recommended them

[@JohntheBeastisthebeast]

That sleigh looks like a good way to haul out a bear

[@earlsulfridge435]

Is it normal for them to avoid a Bait maybe tired of sweet feed

[@BowhuntingRoad]

See if this video helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6uYpaV5ftSdd7c

[@ebasdgd]

48 / 5000 თარგმნის შედეგები What is the name of the bait and where can I buy it? Is it on Amazon ??

[@BowhuntingRoad]

I buy from two places, Lucky 7 bear bait and Wildwood bear bait, both in Minnesota. There are bear bait suppliers all over in the states that have bear hunting.

[@devatwell334]

Cornmeal and apples and that cornmeal gets stinky if it gets wet along with the apples they will come every time...

[@jonathanvisintin9600]

dose baiting bears attract coyote?

[@BowhuntingRoad]

I rarely have trail cam pics of coyotes at bear baits, but wolves are another story. Lots of them.

[@Josh_Houston]

“Bears can put on 5 pounds of fat a day. I can relate to that.” Legendary

[@nathandebartolo8330]

So can I, unfortunately.

[@nicholasmarion8468]

And here I am in a state where dogs, calls, baiting, scents, "attractant of any kind" is prohibited.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Tough to manage bears well without them, but if the terrain lends itself, people shoot bears.

[@nicholasmarion8468]

@@BowhuntingRoad not too many people hunt bear because they wont eat them. I've asked if they actually tried it and most say no. I see 2 in the center of town a few times a month proving they need to be managed. They get to be good size living as care free and for as long as they do. People like to see them around I understand that but that doesn't mean turning your front yard into a buffet. That does more harm adding to the bear in town problem without negative repercussions for the bear actions. If people disrespect wildlife putting animals in a wrong cycle or force a different habit we lose the beauty of nature. If we can put an emotional value on the bears here in western Massachusetts respect them and hunt them in their natural habitat we wont have "garbage bears" people want "eliminated" out of lack of respect, knowledge, and effort to bring the population up to huntable numbers. I tell people if you still want black bears in 100 years in the area hunt them now or they may be eradicated as a pest people view them as. Hunting is pro life it's just people dont understand it. And I hunt everything I can in my state.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

@@nicholasmarion8468 Studies have consistently shown that hunting bears with bait reduces bear-human conflicts and reduces the bear population's dependence on waste and garbage.

[@eastsidegrrrl]

Good. Unsportsmanlike practices should be banned.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

@@eastsidegrrrl They already are.

[@jonathanvisintin9600]

Payday candy bars!!!

[@firstamendment.1850]

Please stop killing bears for at least one season.

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Don't be ridiculous.

[@firstamendment.1850]

@@BowhuntingRoad I'm trying to get one to come to my property. After that I want to set up some cameras. Makes it easier if the population is out of hand.

[@aretools]

We did. During COVID no hunting happened. Now we have a huge bear population that is out of control and causing havic.

[@firstamendment.1850]

@@aretools Not where I'm at. All people did was hunt..

[@aretools]

@@firstamendment.1850 I agree that they should be left alone if there numbers are down. If people are getting only 4 ½ ft bears then they should slow down and let them repopulate.

[@kk09912]

Please stop hunting bears there beautiful creatures

[@BowhuntingRoad]

Okay as soon as they start keeping their population at the carrying capacity of the habitat on their own. And as soon as they stop tasting soooo delicious!

[@kk09912]

BowhuntingRoad why would you eat them you greedy

[@BowhuntingRoad]

@@kk09912 Greedy? Why do you eat anything? You have to eat to live. Nothing better than organic free range meat.

[@kk09912]

BowhuntingRoad why do you have to eat them there’s others stuff like chicken and beef

[@BowhuntingRoad]

@@kk09912 Yeah good idea because everybody knows you don't have to kill chickens and beefs to eat them.