I will be hunting in zone 63-64 in Saskatchewn around the candle lake area, I will put out bait on the 23rd of Nov. How long after I put out the bait should I hunt and how fast will the deer locate it? What kind of bait will get the fastest response time? I only have a week to hunt, I am staying with my friends in candle lake and it will be the first time hunting over bait, useually I hunt the fields just south on the forest fringe. last year I passed on qiute a few bucks in the 130 range and missed a wallhanger but with the amount of snow there at the time it was difficult to acces good remote locations so this year I would like to try some baiting, any advise would be a great help.
Thanks
Elmer

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.