Originally Posted by
Huntingluke
Her s a tip about what bait to use mate. Black bears eat just about anything, but favourite foods include pastries, popcorn, bread, oats, meat scraps, candy and beavers. You also need a strong odour—the more horrific, the better. Gillet pours buckets of decomposed fish guts around the site to get it “heated up.”
Thanks and so true, in 1985 or so I bear hunted with dogs and horses, we used dead cows, calves, rabbits, and fish, we poured molasses over the bait, some of the cows where Oh so ripe
worked great but baiting was stopped I think in the early 90's.