Bear Scent & Lure

[YOTEBOY]

Here's a question for you serious bear hunters out there: What lures & scents have you had your best success with? I'm not talking one or two bears, but 5 or more and year after year consistant results?

[philny1]

Jelly donuts!!!

[BENNYBOOBOO]

Good question. I live in Washington state and here it is not legal to bait bear or cougar, although scents are a different story I believe.

Don't think honey-burns are legal either.

Any scents, not baits, that work well out there?

EH

[learning]

I don't know how to spell it but the stuff that they put in propane to make it smell works pretty good. Ether macaptain???? Something like that anyway.

[Rustystud]

Sun ripened and aged beaver castors........

Nothing more effective other than a female bear in heat.


Nat Lambeth

[Bearhyde]

We use anise (the confectioners scent added to black licorice).
It's available in liquid form that works well in a squirt bottle.
Also liquid smoke.
Another trick is to pull a can of bacon grease up a tree and tip it over so it runs down the tree trunk.
All of these scents linger in the air for a while.
If there's a bear within a mile or so (and he doesn't smell you) he'll come around.

[Rustystud]

Bacon grease burn or poping corn works very good too.

Lots of sent in the air..

Smells better than ripened Beaver castors.

Nat