This year in Minnesota the bear hunting has been, how can I put it, CRAP. I was just wondering what have you found to be the best bear baits.

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anise oil is the best and so is deep fry grease you the best grease you have to go to mom and pop restauants, places like mcdonalds grease doesn't smell enough because they change it too often. also donuts and bread, backstrap mollasses(cheaper then the real stuff) honey for burns and bacon for burns. Fish. go to kfc My girlfriend little brother works there and gets me chicken skins.

Beaver carcus works well if you can get your hands on some. Hang it in a tree and the bears can't resist. As long as this is legal in your state. Good luck.

I noticed that you're from duluth also. I use my own bait recipe.I work at a feed store and use black oil seeds and cr. corn and roasted soybeans and mix it with moll.and i've used the moll. with water and spray it on the trees going in and out of my station.plus if you are hunting in a high pressure area it will be harder. If you can try starting a new station near creeks and or berry patches or by nut trees.If you want more info e-mail me at [email protected]

When it was legal to bait bears in Washington, we used dogfood, honey and donuts, rotting fish, and burn honey pots. It all worked really well.

I know what you mean, jklein, about bear hunting being poor this year in northern MN. This was the first year I didn't get one. The bait suggestions previously listed are all good. In this case, the bears are there in good numbers, but they had too much natural food this year to need to hit the bait piles. It didn't matter what you used. That's the way it is sometimes. I'll still be out there next year.