Testimonials

"We LOVE your product. We hunt Zionville New Brunswick Canada with Boobe Brook Outfitters; amazing outfitter paired with your products are a slam dunk every time. Keep up the great work. Our camp is strictly bow hunters so we need that close intimate shot opportunity and we've harvested some real nice bear because of that. "

Elise Fernstrom


"Last year found me deep in Northwest Ontario Canada, hunting bear with my bow. I've hunted this part of Ontario for a decade with great success. The difference with my past season is I used Northwoods Bear Products Gold Rush, mixed with my fryer grease as an attractant.

My hunt routine started out as the same as any bear hunt I've done in the past. Typically I park 1/4 +/- mile from my bait site and walk in. On the my 1st sit, I had with me 5 gallons of fryer grease mixed with Gold Rush.When I freshened the bait, I used 1/2 of my 5 gallons. I brought my grease back to the truck not worrying about bears getting after my bait pales and grease. I've never in my life had bears mess with my truck. It's always in the back of my mind however! Shortly after I returned to my bait and got settled in, I had a nice bear coming on a straight line to my bait. This bear was locked in to the Gold Rush, I guarantee. I've never seen a bear come into a bait site with such reckless abandon. All of my hunts have had the bears tip toe in after circling the bait. I'm firm believer that every single mature bear circles the bait and detects hunters scent. How it goes after that is incumbent on a bears mood to judge danger.

Back to the excitement. This bear came on a line to the barrel, never once looking up, around or caring about anything, except the scent it smelled! I was shocked!

I began to film this bear as it tipped the barrel, then laid down facing me directly behind the barrel. This bear was happy!! I had laid down approximately 1/2 hour of footage when I heard another bear circling. The bear on my bait locked in to the sound, but was undeterred. I could not see this approaching bear, but guessed it to be 70-80 yards away.  As soon as this started to transpire, I hear a bear hunters worst nightmare sound...another bear was way up at my truck and had climbed in!! The Gold Rush was irresistibly calling bears to my truck!! Of course I began to panic a bit as my truck was basically brand new and I've seen pictures of carnage a bear can do to a vehicle!!I really liked the bear at my bait and wanting to get the other bear off my truck, I readied myself for the shot. It's was mere moments when the bear at the bait stood to inspect the approaching bear, as well as all the racket going on at my pickup.

The shot connected! Instead of the standard 1/2 hour wait, I got down in under a minute to see if/what I could spare on my new truck!!When I arrived, I found my truck ransacked of all my Gold Rush mixed grease! Much to my releaf, the bear hardly scratched my truck, but wow did he leave a mess! He left grease filled paw prints as well as belly drag marks all over the tailgate. He burst the jug, then proceeded to take it into the thick alders for desert. A grease soaked trail showed his escape route!!

I just want to say, I'm a believer in your products! I will add that I will be much less careless in the future lol!!! I know the bears crave the smell of your product like nothing I've ever saw in over 20 years of bear hunting!! My son drew his first WI tag and you can bank it that Gold Rush as well as other Northwoods Bear Products will be in our bag of tricks!!

Thanks again for such a high quality product, that actually drives the bears nuts!!"

Norm Springett 


"We have been using Northwoods Bear Products for years. Our flavor of choice is their Beaver  Castor spray. Each year we see trophy bear come into out sites with their noses held high,  following the potent beaver scent. Not only does it help cover our scent, it acts as a natural
allure here in Manitoba Canada."


Whiteshell Outfitters 
www.whiteshelloutfitters.com 


"I have to say I am impressed by the response bears have to your Gold Rush product. Several times throughout the summer my father and I would lose the 7 bears we had coming into my bait. Every time we would fire up the site with Gold Rush and they would be back the next day. We used it as an attractant, and as a cover scent. The night I harvested my 480 pound boar the wind was blowing directly at the bait. I had limited time to hunt due to college obligations. When I climbed into my stand that night I sprayed down the vegetation around me. I harvested my bear at 15 yards.

I am impressed by your product. "

Mitch & Bill Cutsforth Rice Lake, Wi.


"Hi guys, just wanted to let you know we ran 14 baits in 2012.  We took 10 hunters and had 100% shot opportunity!  We harvested 3 bears over 400 lbs. We used your Gold Rush on all baits, and had bear hitting new baits within hours. They would hit the baits all summer within an hour.  This continued in the hunting season, and we had success because of this product. Thanks Northwoods!! we will be using your products again."

Matt and Sarah Jungbluth
Owners of Backwoods Black Bear Outfitters
Hayward, WI



"Pat, I mixed up several 5 gal. jugs of grease with your Gold Rush to start bear baits.  Long story short I put 2 jugs in my bait shed for the next day. That night the bears tore the door apart, and made a huge mess. The bears had never hit that shed before. I started 4 baits with gold rush, and 2 without. The next day all 4 that I started with Gold Rush were hit. The 2 without took a few days. We will certainly need Gold Rush every year! Great products! Good job!"

Art Hyde
NBC Guide Service
Cornucopia, WI



"After waiting 9 years to harvest my first bear my husband and I couldn't wait to start baiting.  We started baiting in May. As the summer went by the baits were hit less and less. A friend of my husband's suggested trying Northwoods Bear Products, Gold Rush.  We were amazed by the results!  We used Gold Rush with Gold Mist and it brought several new bears to our baits.....including a BIG BOY. Which ended up to be one of the biggest bears shot in the state. 604 lbs field dressed. Thank you for a great product!!"

Becky Fenske
Rice Lake WI



"I’ve been a bear guide for many years and two years ago I was introduced to Northwoods Bear Products. I have never used scents that did what they were advertised to do until now. Northwood’s Gold Rush is the best attractant I’ve ever come across. The first initial test of Gold Rush, my cameras revealed that 13 different bears visited one bait site the first day. I was sold from that moment on. I contribute a large percentage of my hunter’s success to Northwoods Bear Products."

Jim “Gibby” Gibson