Folks, it's almost bare season, and whether you live somewhere where spot and stock doesn't work or you just like to bait because of the advantages of baiting, well, it's an art form, and although I'm not real experienced with it or real good at it, I've got a friend that is.

Tyler Freel, outdoor writer and host of the Tundrutoc talk podcast knows more about Bear Baton than any other three men in my acquaintance

and he's consented to join me for an episode today so man welcome back to the show Tyler.

Yeah, no thanks thanks for you.

It's good to catch up with you.

I was just thinking the other day I hadn't talked to you in quite a while.

I was wondering if I did something to anger you or something.

No, not at all.

I'm just, I'm building a house and building a house is stressful.

Oh yeah.

Yep, I can understand that for sure.

We should get moved in here.

Our move in date is about two weeks out so we're

starting to pack boxes and lose sleep over that but once we're in yeah once're in, I hope life slows down again.

Yeah, so, geez, it's almost time to start setting up baits and I'd like to just get your geez full-on perspective get some

guidance from you on baiting why you bet and you know why you bait we'll go over how to select a bait site how to start off a fresh

bait and other stuff like how to position set up tree stands or blinds any special

shot considerations using trail cameras on bait and so forth, and then if we

have time, some tracking and recovering techniques and so forth.

So man, let's just dive right in here.

When you go out to find, of course you're in Alaska, so things are a little different, but

you know thick bare country country meaning where there's a

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