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maros91

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I started out with 3 baits, went to one, now I am back to three again. I put the last of the three after work today on public land. I find a spot, make my crib and what not and am heading back out. On my way out I look to my left and I see a 5 gallon bucket. I look in it and there is some pastry crap in it. I look about 15 yards over and there is a pile of bait sitting there in the wide open. No crib, no logs over it, no sign displaying the correct info, no nothing. Then I think maybe he is hunting right now. There are only a few trees in this swamp that a guy could get in and there was no ground blind. I did not see these things on the way in or I would never put a station there. My bait site is maybe 40-50 yards away from this junk. I know the rule says 100 yards. But he has no sign up. No nothing, just a bait pile with a 5 gallon bucket laying in the swamp. What should I do?

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This bear season has been a disaster. No more hunting public land for me. Deer, bear, or anything. The one station I have a private land the homeowner rides his 4 wheeler up to my bait and checks it out mad.gif. Then I find out he has been shooting trap on a regular bases close to my station mad.gif. I know it is his place and he can do what he wants. One way to solve these problems is to get my own acreage I guess. Maybe that is what I will have to do. Maybe tomorrow morning I will go for a hike in the swamp and do a bacon burn tongue.gif. Maybe next year I will apply for the BWCA bear area and just do bacon burns and get away from people.

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Biff Tannen

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Well Biff sorry to hear about your troubles. I am hunting on public land as well and maybe i just got lucky not having any problems. I do know of two other hunters in the area but we all keep out space from each other. Now on the other hand Biff you could have a guide in the area that is doing this. Nothing against guides but i have heard of guides baiting near other baits, and even going as far as pouring gas on other peoples bait to keep the bears hitting their baits. If there is an outfitter near you i suggest getting way back in there if possible and do not mark your trail to the bait so no one else can find it.

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Sorry to hear some of you are having a tough year, I am still getting hit. Last night I hunted from the ground like I post before, an again no show. So today after work, I access the trail he is coming on to the site an have a very general direction he is coming from before gettin on the trail to the site. So I decided to set up a new site. I should pull the bait trick but I'm quickley exhausting my financial resources. I set up a pop up blind about 40 yards from a new site an camode it with brush really good. Then I whent around to the old site an did a grease drag, droping greasy fruit loops along the way, I hung the grease sack an put some bait uder some heavy logs I was able to find, tomorrow I'm gonna do another grease drag the same way an add some bait just a teaser to try an get him hungry to hunt sunday. Hopefully he'll feel more comfortable to come into the new site if he's hungry enough. We'll see, boar

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Boar

I am trying your bacon burn right now. I tried one before and I put the holes near the top of the coffee can and it never got warm enough to cook the bacon. I let it burn for about half an hour.

The second one I moved the holes closer to the bottom and I am getting that bacon smell. My question is how many pieces of bacon do you use? I have 2 in ther enow. Use more or less? I will also experiment with things to burn.

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Yea ya have to experiment a little with candles or like you did move the holes closer. I put in several. One thing I like to use to is maple flavor sausage. Is that bacon spray the one we get in the green an white bottle? Try heating that stuff up, Thats highly concentrated stuff an should really put out the scent. Pluse you might be able to use it again an again.I've heated the carmel scent an wowwee!! I like to put my bottle of scent on the dash of my car, by the time I'm going hunting it's already nice an warm, an heat up quicker an smells more potent than in a chilled state. Good luck boar

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It is that stuff in the green and white bottle. I am bust the rest of the day and wii try the burn tomorrow morning. Thanks for all the info.

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No prob. I just got back from my new site, I did a second scent drag from the old again an on the way I found out he had been on the previous drag. Sure enough he easily found the new site. I think I'll bait the new site for a nother day or two an hunt it on Mon. or Tues> Boar

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hey guys i am getting better hits this past week then before opener, but i think i am having two different bears hitting my baits. The first two pics are what i believe to be the same bear and the second two is what i believe to be a real shooter if he would come in during shooting hours. And of course the day that the bears came in i was more focused on deer opener that i decided not to hunt bear. go figure.<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src=" SUNP0010.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

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Hard to tell if the bears are different. The first pic looks like a female with the big ears. The last couple of pics do look bigger and have ears farther apart.

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