Place to buy bear bait inexspensive (honey, etc)

[STL Cardinal Fan]

I found a place where one can buy bear bait somewhat inexpensive.

I always recommend going to your local restaurant for help or grocery stores first, but if you need to buy some honey, peanut butter, caramel, pie fillings, etc.........go here:

WWW.BEARSBAIT.COM


Item*                                               Unit   US $ per
           
Caramel                                             5 gal   15.00
Honey, Raw Bee (while supplies last!)   5 gal (approx. 54#)   40.00
Honey, Raw Bee (while supplies last!)   55 gal (approx. 650#)   440.00
Jelly, assorted flavors NEW                  55 gal   90.00
Peanut Butter                                      5 gal  25.00
Pie Filling (cheese cake, cherry, key lime pie)  5 gal  15.00
Pie filling, assorted flavors NEW           55 gal   90.00
Vanilla icing                                      5 gal   15.00


Personally, I just sent a money order off yesterday for 5 gallon of the honey. I have looked all over for cheaper prices and found zilch....If anybody has cheaper prices let me know.
All prices above was cost plus shipping. The honey cost me $15.00 to ship, which covers 450 miles.

This is the first time I dealt with this outfit, but they seemed awful nice and provided quality service.

In closing, "keep your powder dry" and "Roll a Bear."  :lol:

yours truly,
Cardinal Fan

[Robert]

Go to the Grocery store and buy a 1 gal jug of Imitation Maple Syrup (abot 3 bucks) and a small bottle of Liquid Smoke.  Get a 1 qt spray bottle and fill halfway with syrup, 1 Tbs Liquid smoke then fill to the top with water.  Bears Don't Care what they eat!  Old bread, donuts, hot dogs, meat scraps ....lots and lots of over ripe fruit..anything you can find to make up bulk.  Spray it all over with the syrup mix....spray the trees leaves and grass all around, then spray everyplace you walked or touched and all over the area.  Go the same time every afternoon or morning...whichever you are huinting.  Carry all the goodies in 5 gallon buckets and on the way out BE NOISY.  Slap the empty bucket against your boots as you walk out...make it rattle and clank.  If your rig is closeby, start it up and drive a few hundered yds away.....pull over and park and then sneak back in downwind to cover and wait.  If you are consistent, and do this habitually .. the bear/bears will be waiting just a short distance away until they hear you leave.  
  You can use a small inexpensive trail timer tied to something the bear needs to remove to get to the food and this will tell you exactly when he is feeding.  Sometimes it will be coming in at midnight, but eventually he will come earlier and earlier as he gets feeling secure with the easy meal.  When the timer starts getting closer to sunset...Be Ready.
  Another thing about spraying the ground, is that the bear will track the scent wherever he goes and other bears will follow his trail to your bait.

[alaskacajun]

I don't know what ya'll are allowed in your area but I use dawg food with resturant grease. Also I buy a bottle of Anise and Vanilla extract and saturate rags. Then I hang these in trees around the area. One of my buddies buys a 5 gallon bucket of peanut butter and wipes it all over a dead rotten tree. But this would be hard to clean up as we have to totally clean our bait sites after the season. I also have heard of people using fish guts and heads left over from the previous year. They freeze them. My buddy Steve does a bacon burn and poors the grease onto rags and hangs those too. I've heard honey burns are effective....

Just some ideas..

- Clint

[Medbill]

I hear donuts are the ticket, see if you can get a hook in with your local dunkin donuts shop.  :-)

Billy

[alaskacajun]

yeah I get donut grease from down the street from where I work... I saved donuts from the box at our counter at work for a year and we brought them to the bait site. They were gone in a day or two... LOL

- Clint

[wijim]

gotta say...we got a local guy here and i aint paid over 10 cents a pound yet ever.  i get pie filling in 55 gallons for 50.00.  dried fruit for 45.00, ground ceral and waffle sugar cones (with candy mixed in)for 35.00 and liquid smoke 6.00 per gallon.  not too shabby.  of course fryer grease is free from about any local cafe.

[loaded4bear]

I get all the fryer grease I need for free from local diners. Also have a connection with local convenience store chain to take ALL the stale Krispy Kreme donuts off of their hands. They even bag them for me & store them in the walk-in cooler until I stop in to pick'em up (about once a week). Cheap bait is good...free bait is BETTER!

[Daveinthebush]

I buy Dads dog food for about 14$ per 50 pound bag.  Lots of grease in it and the bears love it.  We pour 50 lbs. at a time into a 55 gallon barrel chained to a tree and spread about 5 pounds all over the ground.  The barrel has only 5-6 small holes around the base that the bear has to play with the barrel to get out.  

Funny though.  This year we found a bear that would tip the barrel over on the bung holes as they were bigger and he could get more food out.  Never did see him but he was still doing it at the end of the season.

I also tried popcorn this year and immediately upon pouring the popped corn into a 5 gallon bucket (don't pour the hot popcorn into a trash bag,  some kernels will melt through.) spinkled on raspberry jello.  Bears loved it and cleaned it all up.  A huge bag of popcorn weighs way less than the dog food.

[YoungInMN]

This fall is gonna be my first year bear hunting ever and iv been stumbling about for my best source of bait. Iv got a good connection with a resuarant but id really like to get into the sweets; such as donuts. figured id swing my dunkin Donuts and give them a chat but i was also thinking of making my own home made batch. HAS ANYONE EVER TRIED TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHEAP BATCH I was thinking of just buying a big old bag of flour adding soem yeast, water and the basics and just pouring a in a good mix of sugar and deep frying it all up. I figure i could wip up a big ol batch of this cheap stuff and see how she works.

Anyone ever tried this? Feel free to bash the idea. Better you then the bear. :grin:

[wijim]

sounds like a great idea....but be prepared to be frying hundreds upon hundreds of pounds of stuff....plus you really need to get some flavorings....like berry stuff to top it off with or liquid smoke etc.....just somethin to stink it up a bunch....real pungent.

i use a mix of dry and liquids....dry being filler...ie cereal, cookies and popcorn (cant use meats here) and top it with apple filling, berry smoothie mix(got a great deal on that stuff 10 cents a pound) outdated candy, and fryer grease.  then i give it a good sprayin down with liquid smoke

[YoungInMN]

WHats the deal with the liquid smoke? What is it exactly and what do you use it for? Ur deal sounds pretty good as well. Ill be searching around for sonme good quantities of some SWEET struff.

Cheers

[wijim]

i dont understand the deal with liquid smoke either...but it works so i guess i dont care why...lol

[peakoftherut]

My kid works at a Super America gas station, and says he throws out at least one big bag of doughnuts and sandwich's every night.