stevelyn
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Baiting for black bears is allowed in Alaska in the spring only, although black bear season is pretty much open year round with a limit of three in most GMUs.
You have to register and post your bait station with your contact information. ADF&G has a standard weather resistant cardstock form for doing this.
Your bait site has to be located a 1/4 mile from any roadway and 1 mile from any dwelling. Bait stations have to be dismantled and cleaned up by close of the baiting period.
When I lived up in the interior, I had a bait stand when I had time to screw around with it. I primarily bowhunted for them and a bait station is an excellent way to position them at a known range for a clean kill. It's legal during the prescibed season and I don't have a problem with the ethics of it.
Other years when I wasn't baiting I'd hunt them more as a target of opportunity when I was running the river and sloughs.
I live on the eastern edge of Aleutian Hell now (AKPEN). We only have brown bears down this way so baiting isn't allowed.
You have to register and post your bait station with your contact information. ADF&G has a standard weather resistant cardstock form for doing this.
Your bait site has to be located a 1/4 mile from any roadway and 1 mile from any dwelling. Bait stations have to be dismantled and cleaned up by close of the baiting period.
When I lived up in the interior, I had a bait stand when I had time to screw around with it. I primarily bowhunted for them and a bait station is an excellent way to position them at a known range for a clean kill. It's legal during the prescibed season and I don't have a problem with the ethics of it.
Other years when I wasn't baiting I'd hunt them more as a target of opportunity when I was running the river and sloughs.
I live on the eastern edge of Aleutian Hell now (AKPEN). We only have brown bears down this way so baiting isn't allowed.