What do you see?
This is a pretty typical bait set up for us.
Hanging in the tree is a beaver carcass, courtesy of some of our local trappers, who are only too happy to find someone to get them off their hands.
But what about the bottom, left hand corner? Do you know what that is? Looks kind of like a campfire ready to be lit.
It is logs, cut and laid out to cover over a hole in the ground. Why bait near a hole? We didn't.
What happens is that grain and Jell-O from our barrels falls from the barrel onto the ground as the bear feeds on it. The barrel is also moved around, so the next bear shows up, finds some grain and Jell-O on the ground and figures there must be more further down and so digs.
We've had black bears dig down as far as three feet as they try to get at a food source that doesn't exist, at least not where they are looking. We cut logs to cover over the holes otherwise a bear will eventually lodge the barrel in the hole and no one is getting dinner until we show up and have to dig the darn thing out.
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