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Old 10-23-2008 | 06:08 PM
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Default RE: How long for baitsite to start working in nothern Sakatchewn?

JMHO but I think your effort would be better spent hunting the farmland or other areas where you found successvs running bait. The odds of you connecting on a wallhanger are better then trying to do so over a virgin bait in a weeks time. The key to hunting horns over bait is does,it brings bucks earlier and will return them later as the rut dwindles as the need for easy feed becomes paramount. Again jmo but a bait should be on the dirt no later than Nov 1 and to get really smoking needs a couple weeks to get rolling (ideally startedaround thanksgiving). Sure you could plop a bait on a well used deer area but the deer will be skiddish at first and need time to get use to the scents, etc. Speaking of scents you should also have more then one bait for different winds as well, banking on only a N or NW wind on only 1 bait is pretty risky with only 6 days to sit on it. I also think having more then one sitting spot or blind on a bait is counter productive as well. Hate to be a downer but that just based on my experience( guiding and personal). I no longer guide or bait myself.

If you do deciede to bait, alfalfa as a base with barley spread on top.

Best of luck.
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