Setting up bait for Black Bear (location)

[prairie boy]

Hey guys might try my hand at setting up a bait sight for next spring, for hunting Black Bear in Northern Saskatchewan next spring (with rifle)(tree stand)where are the best spots to set something like this up. ie. by swamp,lake,small lake,stream,middle of thick bush I don't know!!!
How about some ideas. Thanks

[Daveinthebush]

Think deer hunting.  Anywhere that there is a natural funnel or edge to follow can have potential.  Mine are along the shore of the ocean so the bears almost have to find them eventually if they are heading anywhere.

Thick cover seems to help too.  We discovered one boar last year that when pushed off the bait just went up into the brush and slept for a while.  When he finally returned to the bait he was yawning and scratching just like a person waking up.  Bears like security just like deer do.  It is not an easy life for them out there either and the competition for food will get them fighting and older boars will kill a younger boar for food.

[alaskacajun]

Hey, I've helped a few friends with there bait sites for a number of years. For the most part we always locate a nice area, a few miles up a drainage off the Alaskan road system. Usually around a place where we see bear crossing the road on a regular basis... The ideal location for me would be a spot that has good cover for the bear but is open enough so you can see the bait as you approach the stand. I got run off of a bait pile by a Sow Griz with 3, 2 year old cubs in tow... I shot my first 2 Black Bear over bait but now I perfer to spot and stalk, it seems a little more like hunting to me... Not that there is anything wrong with bait, I just get tired of sittin in a tree, I grew up hunting deer from a stand... good luck, and be careful..

- Clint