Anyone ever tried bailing for mountain lions? Do not even know if it is legal in the USA.
Been hunting in Mexico and spotted a cat this weekend prepping for deer season. We have plenty of baits with pigs and can get a lion permit.
Just curious if it works.
Watched the baiting in Africa for lions and leopards by dragging internal and carcasses down roads leading to a hung bait (Out of coyote reach).
That would be easy for me just not sure if it works??

I had the same question. I know when some of the San Diego lion researches use dead deer to try to either trap or take pictures( can’t remember which one) of lions. Either way they are using a dead animal to attract a lion. If I run into them again I’ll make sure to get more info. Of course I won’t let them know it’s for hunting purposes.

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That would be easy for me just not sure if it works??

I do not believe that it does work. Mountain lions are just different. Spot and stalk, calling, rarely work. Sure, some people get luck but very far and few between.

I have never heard of baiting working. In all fairness, I have not tried it so I do not want to discourage you. However, like I said, I do not know anyone that has done it and had success.

Dogs are the best. However, I realize that that is irrelevant to your question.

I hope you prove me wrong and best of luck!

Are you out anything by trying it beside some time.

Would be interesting to try it.

I know that if one drops a road kill deer in places the predators come out and eat it.

I put enough game cams on road killed deer and gut piles to know it is true.

Wolves, yotes,foxes, bobcats, badgers, fishers, eagles, ravens, crows, weasels well all show up if they around.

Don't have enough MT lions here to try it on.

My whole life I have always heard of someone seeing a cougar on a hunting lease (Texas).From a very young age. Just chalked it up to folk lore. About 40 year ago I did get a glimpse of one in the trans Pecos area of West Texas near Sierra Blanca but it was a swinging tail on a cat that caught my attention for 2-3 seconds and gone.
On the place I am hunting now I was shown locations where some of these cats have been seen and low and behold that is where I saw this one.
I may clear the ground below where I hang baits to look for tracks (Learned that on Africa leopard hunting videos).
Giving is a whirl.
If the cats like pork we have an inexhaustable supply where we hunt and you do not have to look hard the find the pigs and Javies.

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I may clear the ground below where I hang baits to look for tracks (Learned that on Africa leopard hunting videos).Giving is a whirl.

We use to do that for bear baits now we just place a game cam to cover the area.

From what I have read, the Burnham brothers were very successful calling in bears and mountain lions as well as just about any predator.

A friend of mine calls in mountain lions on his central Texas ranch. Of course he also has shot more than a dozen African leopards too.

Maybe try a couple hundred pounds of MEOW-MIX with 20 pounds of Catnip...?

I lived most of my life on a ranch that had probably the highest population of cats in the USA...A few things I learned about desert rim rock cats is they seldom if ever return a kill like Pacific NW cats seem to do..Cats are easy to trap, they travel gullesy where the ground is soft, If you find there tracks fresh, them cut brush or what have you (we used stool) and stack into a V shape in the gulley leaving a two foot gap with three or 4 steel traps with drags, don't stake the drag down, use 10 feet of chain with a large treble like drag. Within 10 days that cat will return following his original path and will walk thru that V. cats make a 125 mile circle killing every 3rd day, unless its a female with cubs, she will stay near their birth place for up to 6 months..One problem with ving the gulley is you caught a deer on rare occasion and Javalina pretty regular..

As far as baiting, I have tried it a million times and no luck, we used dogs and traps, that's all that worked, as many cats as we had you may not see one during the day for years on end, but found kills on a regular bases, set traps at every kill, but all we caught was coyotes, foxes, badgers..

Hello everyone.

Do not discard, hang some shiny object like a CD, you will be surprised to see how you are attracted to, by this kind of thing.

Best regards.

Manuel.

Problem, predators will hit and totally clean up any and all bait. I watched hogs, coyotes, eagles, crows, badgers, and condors clean a kill in less than 18 hours.

Mt Lion are easy to pull in once but hard to keep them coming back.

Where legal trapping is highly effective

Cats will rarely eat a dead dear. You are better off trying to call one in.