Champlain Islander have you ever baited bears ?

Baiting bears was passed several years ago because people were not killing enough bears - they were becoming quite the problem and still are. Batiing isn't allowed on public ground - they ARE allowed on private grounds. The AG&F wants them killed to try and keep nuicance bear problems down.

In the thick national forests of northern AR its impossible to spot and stalk. The AG&F knew that after the bear populations got too high. Baiting allows people to kill a few more bears, which helps control the population which allows humans and bear to better co-exist.

As for it being canned ? LOL ..... no it isn't, there are no fences to contain them, they are 100% wild bears. Baiting is not as challenging as spot and stalk or still hutning, which is almost impossible in that area as I've explained, I'll not argue that. Its not, however canned.

I've read many a hunter sitting for days, and no bear show. I've read about the dozens of hours, maybe even hundreds involved in getting the bait, putting it out, trying different areas (i've got seveal parcels of land to bait). Might be sows and cubs only come in, who knows ?

Again, its not comparable to spot and stalk, but then when you consider I've never baited bear, I'll be hunting them with either a recurve or longbow, I've never shot one and especially an Arkansas black bear ........ sounds like a pretty fair chase hunt to me.

I remember full well the canned hunting - hundreds of animals in a high fenced pen, pick and shoot, remove ear tags and go to brunch, I've been there and done that debate and still hate canned hunting.

If you're really trying to compare black bear hutning over bait to canned hunting ? I don't think so. I'll let you know if I get a bear this fall, and if I do how I feel afterwards. I figure after pouring in many hours doing it, trying to find a boar, sitting for many hours, trying to catch him as he's coming in, etc it'll be a good hunt. If its ridiculously easy ? Then there wasn't a whole lot of hunt there, your'e right. Still not remotely compareable to canned hunting though.