Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bear Hunting magazine Hunt Cash with me
Speaker 1: Kobe Morehead. We're gonna nerd out on bears hunting and
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Speaker 1: this journey together. Welcome to the podcast. It is that
Speaker 1: time again. It's time to go after some bears over
Speaker 1: bait in Arkansas. The season here starts up next Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and I am here for it. Today we're gonna stay
Speaker 1: on the topic of baiting bears with some of the
Speaker 1: So today we're joined by three outfitters out of Bear
Speaker 1: Hunting Magazine that either I have hunted with or my
Speaker 1: buddies David McDaniels and Brent Reeves is hunted with. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna guard the gate here by showing that there's
Speaker 1: no one correct way to bait bears. These outfitters are
Speaker 1: only separated out by a few hours combined, and they
Speaker 1: all have different ways that they bait bears, and they
Speaker 1: get some biggins. That's right, Biggins with two g's. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get a lot out of this episode
Speaker 1: and to help guard the gate spread that type of
Speaker 1: word that no one has the one correct way for
Speaker 1: all bears. Bears do bear things, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that I like to say regularly, just to
Speaker 1: say that bears are very individual in nature and they
Speaker 1: have preferences. For instance, in southern Arkansas, bears won't touch sweets.
Speaker 1: They will only hammer the coin.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Learn that from Omyran means from previous episodes. Anyways, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. I think you're going to enjoy this one.
Speaker 1: So Todd, tell me about Baldy Mountain, some of the
Speaker 1: history and just what things have been like since you
Speaker 1: took over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baldy Mountain Outfitters. Well, I ended up purchasing it
Speaker 3: off of Tom and Debbie Ainsworth, which was Grand View Outfitters.
Speaker 3: He'd been running it for oh man, it was close
Speaker 3: to thirty five years when I took over, and I
Speaker 3: took over in twenty seventeen, so it's been whatever whatever
Speaker 3: the math is on that, I.
Speaker 2: Think eight nine years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean yeah, like I've been I had
Speaker 3: been guiding, you know, I've been eighteen I've been all
Speaker 3: over in the industry, like from Manitoba, did a bit
Speaker 3: of guy in Saskatchewan and out in BC.
Speaker 2: Did you know different species and stuff, you know.
Speaker 3: At a young age there too, I knew, man, this
Speaker 3: is what I wanted to really get into. So I
Speaker 3: just you know, kind of always would look around and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden and then I heard about
Speaker 3: Tom wanting to sell This is something that I'm really
Speaker 3: interested in because you know, it's it's just been a
Speaker 3: primary there. The genetics are just phenomenal there. You get
Speaker 3: the color phase, you know, big trophy bears. I wanted
Speaker 3: to get into something that was like top notch, something unique,
Speaker 3: not just an average outfit. And then too, you know,
Speaker 3: just be able to offer really high quality times with
Speaker 3: harvesting high quality bears. I talked to my wife and said, hey,
Speaker 3: like this kind of checks all the checkboxes, yeah or yeah,
Speaker 3: are we up for this? And she was like okay,
Speaker 3: so yeah, we just jumped into it. And it's been
Speaker 3: quite a right, I've been a ton of work. I've
Speaker 3: just been blown away, like every year, just the bears
Speaker 3: that we keep harvesting, the quality, the color phase, like
Speaker 3: it's just crazy. I mean this year too, we took
Speaker 3: our biggest bear on the skull. If I could have
Speaker 3: measured the lower jaw, he would have been over twenty
Speaker 3: two inches, which yeah for black bears, like that's that's
Speaker 3: just crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go ahead and talk about what you think
Speaker 1: of or what you're looking for whenever you go to
Speaker 1: start a bait.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean the nice thing is especially in
Speaker 3: the ducks there, it's such a phenomenal area for bears.
Speaker 3: So really, I mean, you set up a bait, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of anywhere, and you are going to get some
Speaker 3: matching at some point. But key things, you know, what
Speaker 3: I look for is kind of you know, just kind
Speaker 3: of pinch points with the topography a bit, but also too,
Speaker 3: I know earlier I've been like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 3: got to keep my baits like X amount of miles
Speaker 3: away or you know that way you're not like too close.
Speaker 3: But as I've been doing this more or like, you know,
Speaker 3: when I set up baits, I'm realizing you don't always
Speaker 3: necessarily need to be miles away. You can even be
Speaker 3: you know, a mile away or three quarter mile. But
Speaker 3: then what I kind of call it is doing cluster baiting.
Speaker 3: So say you run like three baits that are kind
Speaker 3: of in a I don't know, say a two mile
Speaker 3: three mile radius, Then what I do is I'll put
Speaker 3: hunters on all three of those baits. You may not
Speaker 3: get the volume you would like as if on one bait,
Speaker 3: but the thing is, especially for going for bigger bears,
Speaker 3: you're taking that pressure off and then that way you
Speaker 3: can kind of bounce around to those baits, you know,
Speaker 3: the big thing keeping your your hunting pressure to a minimal.
Speaker 3: I find in my area going back to like starting
Speaker 3: a bait, just being patient, you put work into it.
Speaker 3: What I've found too is I mean I had a
Speaker 3: bait last year finally it took off, and I've been
Speaker 3: baiting for about three or four years. But baiting too,
Speaker 3: you've got to think of it as an investment, just
Speaker 3: because you don't get a whole lot of action right aways.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you know you've got to give it a couple
Speaker 3: of years, but you know, you just keep baiting it.
Speaker 3: And like that one bait that I had this year,
Speaker 3: like I'd been baity and Badia and you know, I'd
Speaker 3: get a couple of bears in there and nothing special,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden this year, like it
Speaker 3: just took off and we actually harvested a booner off
Speaker 3: there with a thirteen year old kid with a cross,
Speaker 3: So it was pretty awesome. Just because a spot it
Speaker 3: doesn't take off radaways. Sometimes you got to give it
Speaker 3: a bit of time. Other times, you know, if it's
Speaker 3: just not produce and then yeah, sometimes you just got
Speaker 3: to pull the plug and try some go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah awesome, I know the answer, But tell us what
Speaker 1: you bait with.
Speaker 3: Primarily I'd bait with corn and basically friar oil. This
Speaker 3: year I got a home blackload of honey, so was
Speaker 3: throwing some honey out there too. My go to up
Speaker 3: in our area there is corn. Other things definitely work,
Speaker 3: you know when you're outfitting. The corn is just super
Speaker 3: efficient for me. And what I've been finding too is
Speaker 3: like using corn, say like over oats. It's in my area,
Speaker 3: it's definitely night and day effer like you put corn
Speaker 3: where you put oats and corn, and they won't even
Speaker 3: touch the oats, like they just nihilate the corn. And
Speaker 3: the nice thing what I really like about the corn
Speaker 3: too is the corn can get wet and they'll still
Speaker 3: eat it, or it gets on the ground. Everything gets
Speaker 3: like just vacuumed up like it's just gone. So it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it just works. It's been working really good for us.
Speaker 3: And and then I can always I like to advertise
Speaker 3: and kind of joke about it. Then we say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we got corn fed bears.
Speaker 1: Come up, so I like it. Now, what happens if
Speaker 1: corn goes sour.
Speaker 3: Well, if the corn goes sour, it works really good.
Speaker 3: But you have a window of time before it gets
Speaker 3: too rotten. They usually have like stashes of barrels at
Speaker 3: the bait site and then I've had you know, bears
Speaker 3: also rip them off and then they end up in
Speaker 3: a swamp and then I don't get to until, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks later it's been sitting in the
Speaker 3: sun and then they're starting to ferment. But as long
Speaker 3: as I catch it in time, I opened that barrel
Speaker 3: up and I just dump it on the ground and
Speaker 3: just the aroma off it of the fermenting. I've had
Speaker 3: that at some baits and they just clean it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome. I want to try that sometimes just to see.
Speaker 1: Growing up, we did that with hogs when we were
Speaker 1: baiting traps and stuff, and man, it just pulled him in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll get a hog of a bruin on it. Well,
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite go to bear story? Oh man,
Speaker 1: I got lots, I know, what's your what's your favorite?
Speaker 1: Well this spring, like with that that really big one.
Speaker 1: That was pretty special this spring because I've been chasing
Speaker 1: that guy, oh man, i'd say for at least four
Speaker 1: or five years and just had him on camera a lot,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was very distinct. He had he
Speaker 1: was just nice for black muzzle and then he had
Speaker 1: like just this nice chevron on his chest there too,
Speaker 1: white patch. And yeah, it was crazy because I've you know,
Speaker 1: I've been having pictures of him in that one area
Speaker 1: there and that that was you know, kind of a
Speaker 1: bit of an example of a cluster bating. What happened
Speaker 1: that night was we were hunting three baits that were
Speaker 1: probably like, yeah, kind of two miles apart from each other,
Speaker 1: and put a guy back in there. And he hunted
Speaker 1: with me last year and never he did not ended
Speaker 1: up not shooting anything last year because you know, he
Speaker 1: was looking for something really special and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this guy came out.
Speaker 2: I think it was like day two or day three.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he just came out and it was a
Speaker 3: no brainer, and the guy just yeah, he gave him
Speaker 3: the news with a forty five seventy and you know,
Speaker 3: just shot him perfect. And then when I came in
Speaker 3: and to or to get or whatever just coming into
Speaker 3: the bear, oh man, Like I was just I think
Speaker 3: I was more excited than what he was like, you know,
Speaker 3: at first or when I actually saw the bear, because
Speaker 3: I came in there and he's like, you know, it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: tell me a story. What happened? And he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a good one. And I'm like okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well let's go check it out. Because sometimes guys say
Speaker 3: that and kind of you knows it's a one hand
Speaker 3: or that, you know. But yeah, Also I walked up
Speaker 3: on this guy and I was just like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: I'm like that's that's a good one, and then rolled
Speaker 3: him over and then started looking at him more and
Speaker 3: I was just like Mark, I was like this, I
Speaker 3: was like you I got history with this guy, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it was just awesome, awesome team. So so sorry that's
Speaker 3: not too much of a natural exciting.
Speaker 1: Bear story, but well it's exciting when you have so
Speaker 1: much history with one. Yeah, you know, to finally lay
Speaker 1: hands on it.
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of a bit of a bittersweet too,
Speaker 3: like when when you end up harvesting a guy like
Speaker 3: that too. But I mean the really cool thing about
Speaker 3: it too is you know, looking at his teeth and everything,
Speaker 3: like he was old, Like I don't know how much more.
Speaker 3: I mean, he might have had one more winter in him,
Speaker 3: but yeah, he was up in the four eighty four,
Speaker 3: ninety he was just he was under fives, but just yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the crazy thing is is I mean you
Speaker 1: you only do spring hunts, so I mean that's a
Speaker 1: you know, four ninety class bear in the spring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh it's pretty well yeah cool.
Speaker 3: Well thanks Todd, Yeah, well thanks a lot too, Coolby
Speaker 3: it's always uh always good chatting with you too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: That was Todd Waldemo with Baldy Mountain Outfitting, and next
Speaker 1: we're moving to rich Garrez from Eastern Sky Guiding. Now,
Speaker 1: both of these outfitters I've hunted with, and there's some
Speaker 1: similarities and there's some things that they do differently, but
Speaker 1: both of them got the bear. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: big bears and colored bears with both of these guys
Speaker 1: and had just some phenomenal sits. You would remember Rich
Speaker 1: from episode eighteen where we were recapping my recent hunt
Speaker 1: with those guys up in Saskatchewan. Well, we recorded a
Speaker 1: section just pretty much strictly about baiting. So let's hear
Speaker 1: what Rich had to say. And I will say that
Speaker 1: Todd talking about cluster bating, that's something that's going to
Speaker 1: be rolling around in my mind for a while. I
Speaker 1: could see that working really well, especially with larger pieces
Speaker 1: of property or parcels that you have access to that
Speaker 1: are closer together, or in a larger hunting club. Let's
Speaker 1: see what Rich has to say.
Speaker 4: Here's Rich.
Speaker 1: I really liked hearing your progression of how you baited,
Speaker 1: so I'd like to talk about your bait theory and
Speaker 1: your the evolution of your bait baiting strategies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like when we when I first started bating, I
Speaker 5: used what I what I could get my hands on.
Speaker 5: We started with meat scraps and oats. We always had
Speaker 5: oats around, cooking oil we could pick up, you know,
Speaker 5: So that was that was the thing I could do
Speaker 5: affordably and have access to it, you know, readily. But
Speaker 5: and it worked. It worked really good, especially in the
Speaker 5: beginning of the season. What we did find is, as
Speaker 5: you know, as the season went on and you got
Speaker 5: into your lush grass, dandelions started popping out, you could
Speaker 5: tell they were backing off on it. They were pulling
Speaker 5: the oats out, picking at the meat scraps, you know,
Speaker 5: that's what they wanted. But the oats wasn't a big
Speaker 5: thing at that point. And I think it's just because
Speaker 5: they had they had more choices, right, they had they
Speaker 5: had all this lush grass, they had alfalfa, they had dandelions.
Speaker 5: So and we still will use some of the oats
Speaker 5: and meat scraps in the beginning if we have a source.
Speaker 5: As it gets later on and the competition gets higher,
Speaker 5: we've found it's made a huge difference. They want it
Speaker 5: more than they desire the green grass. If you can
Speaker 5: keep switching it up and keep bettering it, it just
Speaker 5: it helps. It comes down to affordability and access. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So if if you can, if you have access to
Speaker 5: it affordably, then I mean, everybody everybody's different.
Speaker 1: You know, And you use the grease barrel kind of
Speaker 1: like I do corn, where the bears always have something
Speaker 1: there even when the other runs out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One thing I've seen hunting and stands mainly up here
Speaker 1: in Canada. I haven't seen anyone do this down south,
Speaker 1: but those grease barrows sometimes they're highly preferred over the
Speaker 1: the other bears. Like they'll go and eat whatever the
Speaker 1: bait is, but they will stay glued sometimes to those
Speaker 1: grease burrows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it and it really helps attract more bears
Speaker 5: as well, because they get it on them and they're
Speaker 5: wherever they go there, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Track those ponds out. Yeah, And I wonder if it
Speaker 1: helps their coat at all. Like I notice, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was just like the fall, but a
Speaker 1: lot of the bears. Most of the bears had slick
Speaker 1: coats that I saw.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if if it has anything to do with
Speaker 1: that grease. Like with dogs at your house, like you
Speaker 1: always heard that if you feed them some eggs regularly
Speaker 1: let their it'll slick their coats up. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Speaker 5: It's possible. I don't for sure. I definitely know they
Speaker 5: do not get constipated when they eat it.
Speaker 1: One bear proved that to me in front of the
Speaker 1: stand last night. Oh, that's good. That's good, all right.
Speaker 1: That was some good stuff from Rich. And at some
Speaker 1: point we're gonna have to get his wife, Marla on here.
Speaker 1: Marla's awesome and she is a bear hunter. She's gotten
Speaker 1: one of the biggest color phase bears I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: If you ever go up there, you'll have to check
Speaker 1: out the main house. They have some really incredible bears
Speaker 1: that they've taken over the years. So now we're gonna
Speaker 1: move over to We're gonna talk to Craig and Melanie
Speaker 1: McCarthy from North Mountain Adventures there in Southwest Manitoba. Now
Speaker 1: I haven't hunted with Craig and mel but my good
Speaker 1: buddy David McDaniels and Print Reeves have both hunted there.
Speaker 1: David has been there the last two years and had
Speaker 1: two excellent experiences. But it seems like between the two
Speaker 1: of them, they're stuck on chocolate bears. Anyways, let's get
Speaker 1: over to them and see what they have to share
Speaker 1: with the So let's just start with talking about North
Speaker 1: Mountain Adventure.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: So North Mounta Adventures, it's kind of a complex thing
Speaker 6: at this point. We started out as I don't fitting
Speaker 6: business back in twenty fourteen, and it was really just
Speaker 6: a small family operation for American bear hunters, and it
Speaker 6: took a big turn in twenty twenty, ironically, in middle
Speaker 6: of the global pause, we took a backseat and kind
Speaker 6: of evaluated things a little bit and decided to change
Speaker 6: our cabins that we used for hunters into a rental situation.
Speaker 6: So that was a big shift for us. So we
Speaker 6: now have four season cabins that that we rent out
Speaker 6: to guests, and we also, I should say I also
Speaker 6: supported Craig's dream. It was really Craig's dream to pursue
Speaker 6: videoing his hunting adventures, and that has evolved significantly since
Speaker 6: its inception, and probably best if I let him speak
Speaker 6: to that. Yeah, when we found out that nobody could
Speaker 6: cross the border, that wasn't going to stop me from
Speaker 6: going out in the woods.
Speaker 2: So I had a buddy over and we decided that
Speaker 2: we wanted to start filming some stuff. So we made
Speaker 2: two YouTube videos. I believe one was an el hunt
Speaker 2: and one of the local Canadian broadcasters got a hold
Speaker 2: of it somehow really liked it, called us up and
Speaker 2: asked us if they could use it in their on
Speaker 2: their channel, and then that turned into more talks and
Speaker 2: we ended up signing with them and we're working on
Speaker 2: season four now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's been it's been kind of a cool adventure,
Speaker 6: like Craig said, working on season four content now, Season
Speaker 6: three is still airing on on Wild TV and is
Speaker 6: now uploading on a weekly basis to carbon Tv, which
Speaker 6: is super cool for our American following. So now it's
Speaker 6: it's even more accessible. You can you can see it
Speaker 6: on the Wild tv Plus app globally, so that's still
Speaker 6: an option. But Carbon TV really opens the doors for
Speaker 6: our American followers to to be a viewer as well.
Speaker 1: A lot of people would see a familiar face, our buddy, Oh,
Speaker 1: Brent Reeves came up there this year, right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Brent will definitely be part of our spring guiding show,
Speaker 2: that's for certain. He was an absolute blast abbot Camp. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if you've hung up with Brent for any part of time,
Speaker 2: he keeps a smile on your face most of the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he always makes his case.
Speaker 2: That's correct. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's a joke about knives.
Speaker 6: Guys, I say the same thing or not, but I thought, yeah,
Speaker 6: there's a.
Speaker 2: Good plug for his name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, as far as outfitting, you pretty much
Speaker 1: are strictly bear.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We we have nineteen foreign resident bear tags, but
Speaker 2: we also have twelve foreign resident deer tags. Six are
Speaker 2: for one area and six we just got in a
Speaker 2: new area, and so we're actually gonna hunt that new
Speaker 2: area this year.
Speaker 1: We awesome. Okay, Well let's shift gears and let's talk
Speaker 1: talk about bait placement. How you started up and then
Speaker 1: what you bait with.
Speaker 2: My bait place. When I first started up, I pretty
Speaker 2: much went on, we have a in Canada. Before Onyx
Speaker 2: got here, we have an eye hunter app. So obviously
Speaker 2: I scanned all areas and look for quarters, just like
Speaker 2: when you're looking for deer, high ridges in between swamps,
Speaker 2: any kind of places where you think animals would normally run.
Speaker 2: That's where I would try and make a site, and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't make it ready to go to, ready to hunt.
Speaker 2: I would just put barrels and start baiting and just
Speaker 2: see what kind of activity you could get. And believe
Speaker 2: it or not, sometimes moving a barrel five hundred yards
Speaker 2: actually makes a big difference. But on that that's kind
Speaker 2: of how I picked my spots. And if I moved
Speaker 2: a few, and now we got we're probably close to
Speaker 2: twenty five bait sites situated and they're all they've been
Speaker 2: pretty active for the last years. So on that we
Speaker 2: mostly used for bait is oats and used grease. In
Speaker 2: the past four years, I've been putting Northwoods bear products
Speaker 2: gold rush in my grease, which helps a lot for sure.
Speaker 2: It definitely gets the scent out better. I find in
Speaker 2: the spring using the oats and the grease for sustenance,
Speaker 2: and then I chop up beavers and in the spring
Speaker 2: that's the first thing they go for is beavers and
Speaker 2: damn beaver. They sell a wax milt honey. It's like
Speaker 2: a burnt honey in jugs. So putting that all over
Speaker 2: top of the barrel and throwing it around on the
Speaker 2: trees it sticks to it is really good scent also,
Speaker 2: and I find in the fall they're a little bit
Speaker 2: finnick here, so treats a little bit sweeter. Still put
Speaker 2: the oats in the grease, but they'll go after the
Speaker 2: treats a little more in the fall, I find more
Speaker 2: than they go after the beaver.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what kind of treats do you typically ken on?
Speaker 2: Doughnuts, honey, yeah, and anything that's expired from the stores
Speaker 2: that you can get that's got any kind of sweetness
Speaker 2: to them. That seems to work pretty good.
Speaker 1: Okay. How long do you give a bait before you
Speaker 1: decide to move it?
Speaker 2: I typically give it a full season, So give it
Speaker 2: the full season, baited in the spring, baited in the fall,
Speaker 2: and start at the next spring, and if it's still
Speaker 2: not hitting the way that I think it should hit,
Speaker 2: I'll move it. But you should know after the spring
Speaker 2: and then into the fall. How many you know, if
Speaker 2: you're getting three or four or five bears moving in
Speaker 2: there on your trail cam, then you know you're probably
Speaker 2: in the right vicinity. If you're only getting one bear
Speaker 2: and it's a small bear, obviously you're not quite in
Speaker 2: the right spot.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite bear story?
Speaker 2: My favorite bear story? Oh, there's a lot of them,
Speaker 2: I guess. Actually, a good one would be when David
Speaker 2: came up actually in the article, the one he wrote,
Speaker 2: and he mentioned it in the article when I put
Speaker 2: him in the bait site, and the day that I
Speaker 2: went to get him to pull his bear out, I
Speaker 2: actually forgot the sleigh and his bear was like died
Speaker 2: in the worst place possible for dragging it, So we
Speaker 2: probably had to pull it a good couple hundred yards
Speaker 2: on the ground, which isn't easy with a two and
Speaker 2: seventy pound bear, you know how they're so floppy and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I heard about it the whole time we were
Speaker 2: dragging it, David about outfitters should be better than this,
Speaker 2: and you know how it goes.
Speaker 1: How funny? Yeah, And the funny thing is, if you
Speaker 1: know David, he's he's not one to give a hard
Speaker 1: time like he's a he's a hard, hard worker, but
Speaker 1: he sure does like to mess with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's all in jest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all part of the experience.
Speaker 1: The last two years, I've talked to him on his
Speaker 1: way home and he uh, he's had two great experiences
Speaker 1: up there with you guys. Do you have any go
Speaker 1: to tips, like any hot tips?
Speaker 2: Patience? Yeah, patience is definitely key. I find that if
Speaker 2: you're obviously hunting a bear over bait, if you're hunting
Speaker 2: any bear can be obviously easy if you shoot the
Speaker 2: first bear that comes in, but he's chances are going
Speaker 2: to be small. The best tip I can give to
Speaker 2: a hunter that's sitting in the stand, especially when we
Speaker 2: have him on camera. The first couple of days might
Speaker 2: he's there, he's just sniffing you out and getting used
Speaker 2: to the bait side with the new smell in there.
Speaker 2: Typically by day four he's probably almost used to you,
Speaker 2: and day three or day four you're probably going to
Speaker 2: see him. And day five even is probably your best
Speaker 2: chance at shooting the giant bear that's on the bait
Speaker 2: side in literally the last ten minutes. So best tip
Speaker 2: would be to hold out as long as he can.
Speaker 6: Unless you're Brent Leaves. I was just going to say,
Speaker 6: there there is the anomalies where the big guys show
Speaker 6: up on that first day, but patience is definitely important.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I told Brent, I said, you got lucky I
Speaker 2: opened the cage at the right time. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'll be honest. We really pride ourselves on our guys
Speaker 6: having fun. It's really about the experience, like the bear hunting,
Speaker 6: and I think David and Brent and any of the
Speaker 6: guys would probably tell you the same thing. The bear
Speaker 6: hunting is almost the cherry on top, is how we
Speaker 6: kind of like to look at it, like we really
Speaker 6: want people to feel comfortable to have a good meal
Speaker 6: on the daily and have a good experience, get to
Speaker 6: know each other. It's really just fun when everybody jives
Speaker 6: and takes that in.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 6: I would include just kicking back and having fun.
Speaker 1: If you and fun, get out there and have fun, guys.
Speaker 1: That is something that we just need to remember to do.
Speaker 1: And I think Mel really hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1: One of the most important things you can have inside
Speaker 1: your toolkit is a positive mental attitude because you can
Speaker 1: keep more friends other people going along with This is
Speaker 1: what makes things so rewarding, unless you're a grumpy gus.
Speaker 1: Last year, whenever I killed my big we're guessing close
Speaker 1: to five hundred pound bear here in Arkansas, my buddy
Speaker 1: Rick was with me, and this year it's his turn,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna I'm gonna go sit with him and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go after another bear this year on the
Speaker 1: same property. And they are not hitting the bait like
Speaker 1: they did last year. But I can promise we're in
Speaker 1: it and we're gonna have a great time regardless of
Speaker 1: the outcome. But it's just rewarding to be able to
Speaker 1: spend time in the outdoors. It really is a privilege
Speaker 1: to live close to places that We love to go
Speaker 1: out and explore. Until next time, guard the gate, keep
Speaker 1: on keeping on, stay calm, and just go find some bears.
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