dracor, if your bears are hungry enough the tripod probably won't help, they swam out and pulled mine over, but if you want it your welcome to mine, it's made with 10 ft. poles.
Now I have a rope running 80ft. across a narrow part of the pond between 2 trees 15ft. up. The rope runs thru a metal clothesline wheel at one end so I can raise and lower the feeder so it can be refilled from the canoe.
It's worked so far, I don't think the bears want to hand over hand (paw over paw) that far.
If nothing else the bluegill should benefit from feeding and might train some of the other species to feed as well.
