ORIGINAL: 4everbowhunt

Try mixing anise with vegetable oil.This will help it stick and last longer when it rains.I use a super-soaker squirt gun to spray the mixture up into the trees to get the scent to carry further on a breeze.You can mix raspberry jello in water and do the same thing.If you can save your bacon grease and do a burn with it to put the aroma in the air.I also do a sardine in oil burn to make it smell like a fish fry going on and where you cannot bait then just put the scraps of fish in a jar and take them out with you.You can also use vanilla extract which is sweet smelling and bears love it.I mix it with water and spray it into the trees also.I also buy jars of petroleum jelly and melt them down to a liquid state and then mix in vanilla or anise and then let it harden up again.This mixture adheres well to trees and stumps and does not readily wash away when it rains.Also try doing a honey burn.The pungent smell from this when the honey starts burning will also attract bears.The smoke it creates tends to cling to trees and limbs and can be smelled a long ways off.I also use liquid smoke and spray this around.[/b]

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Use large jars of Vaseline and heat them enough to turn them back to a liquid.[/b]
Use scents eg. Anise,vanilla,cherry raspberry etc. and mix in a few ounces of each ,1 flavor per jar and mix it in well and let cool back to a paste. [/b]
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Mix 30% anise and 70% vegetable oil together and put in spray bottle.[/b]
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Anise oil can be expensive so I buy bags of black licorice and boil them to get the anise liquid from boiling.

Remember that since you are using scents only it will not take a bear long to figure out that there is no food source associated with these smells so be "PREPARED TO HUNT"!!![/b]
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