I don't believe I can use big game meat in Alaska.Would it be legal to buy meat from a grocery store to use?

Yes

Thanks

Ask a butcher for scraps they will usually give it for free

Thanks.Thats a great idea

I find that moose and deer bones after trimming the edible meat from them are about as good as it gets for dedicated Gulo cubby bait. Moose bones especially, due to size, are easy to wire together and rig so they cannot be easily moved in the set. I like them sour smelling too….

Apparently you're coming up here? Can you bring a beaver carcass? You can use bones, hide, and viscera for bait.

In the beginning stages of planning the trip.Don't know if I can drive thru Canada with beaver in the back of my truck.Trying to decide on maybe doing a caribou hunt up on the Dalton highway then trying to shoot a wolverine over bait in Sept or trapping a wolverine in December.

Why would you want to harvest a wolverine in September???

You can likely buy a beaver carcass once you are here.

Personally I wouldn't spend time trying to harvest a wolverine over bait in any month of the year. Far more efficient to use a trap.
Also, I have seen Paul's Skunky Backbreaker cause a wolverine to change directions from over a hundred yards away and beeline straight to my set........which was just a moose bone that had the meat trimmed off. It didn't really have much smell that I could detect.

Agree with isnarewolves......it would be a real waste to take a wolverine in September........IMO

So that I can also go caribou hunting as well.

Still weighing the pros and cons

Probably best wait till they prime up. And I'm no expert on gulo, I grew up on an island with almost none of them, but I've since been pretty much everywhere our state has to offer, and I've never seen one outside of a trap

So even with the colder weather In September in Alaska wolverine are not primed up yet?

Not even close. Remember temperature has little or nothing to do with it.
If you want a nice wolverine I would try to trap one in February.

Like Timber Tramp above......I have seen only one on the ground that was not in a trap. Several from the air but that;s different than sitting over a bait hoping one will appear.

LOL.....sure looks like I won't get one on my caribou hunt but later trapping on a separate trip.

You might see a wolverine on your caribou hunt but I wouldn't count on it. I agree with everyone else I would not bother wasting my time baiting one and sitting there. Spend that time glassing the mountains and valleys instead and you just might find one and be able to put a stalk on it. Seen a couple while sheep hunting and more while hiking the mountains. Come to think of it the mountains are the only place I have seen them when not in a trap.

Every once in a while you hear about a fall hunter getting one, but not very often. Earliest I’ve caught one is first week of November and it was ok, but just ok.

Temps don't have a lot to do with fur priming up, that's determined by photo period (how much/little daylight we're getting)