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bait for coon traps
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03/25/19 07:25 PM
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I've been using marshmallows in my Dukes traps for the last 2 years but it has seemed that they have wised up to them. What else is a good bait?
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/25/19 08:42 PM
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stxranchman
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Corn, cracked corn, milo, protein pellets, fish food, sweet feed, sardines, fish flavored cat food, and a cotton ball with some drops fish/sardine oil or fish attractant have worked for me in the past.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/25/19 09:33 PM
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oldstyle244
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I use dog food, have been for years, seems to work great
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/25/19 09:46 PM
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Fish flavored cat food...The dry stuff...
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/25/19 10:06 PM
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Many years ago, I used sardines. A can cost 15-25 cents and I could bait 5-6 sets with one can. On a good night I could make $12-15 with a single can pretty good for a 15-16 yo high school kid in the early 60's.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/26/19 12:10 AM
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Corn, it is what they are coming to the feeder for.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/26/19 02:13 AM
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I like to use dry cat food and a few drops of fish oil.
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03/26/19 03:22 AM
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/26/19 12:49 PM
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Corn, it is what they are coming to the feeder for. Be careful with fish like tuna or sardines. Other rodents like skunks and opossums will get in your traps. A skunk smell on the hwy is nothing compared to a skunk up close and personal..
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/26/19 02:54 PM
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Corn, it is what they are coming to the feeder for. Be careful with fish like tuna or sardines. Other rodents like skunks and opossums will get in your traps. A skunk smell on the hwy is nothing compared to a skunk up close and personal.. I used sardines and never caught a skunk. Every time I used marshmallows, I caught a skunk. Never failed.
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03/26/19 04:36 PM
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We have had our best luck with cat food and corn.
It's hell eatin em live
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03/26/19 04:50 PM
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Re: bait for coon traps
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03/26/19 04:53 PM
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Corn, 95% of the time corn, occasionally protein pellets, once or twice a year when they seems to slow down on corn, marshmallows.
During the spring & summer I've found ants swarm bait other than corn, I caught no raccoons but did catch 4 skunks using cat food & sardines.
Most folks learn their lesson after catching one skunk, I baited 8 traps one Wednesday afternoon by Friday morning & the 4th skunk, never again.
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03/27/19 10:38 AM
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Never been to a camping world. I prefer Dick's to be honest.
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03/27/19 11:12 AM
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Dry cat food and I use catfish bait, the squeeze tube that smells like fish to attract them. If you are concerned about skunks just situate your traps up on a branch if possible and secure it with wire or small chain.
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03/28/19 06:03 PM
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Canned dog goods, chunks/.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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04/05/19 12:20 AM
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I use dog food, have been for years, seems to work great I also had fish oil to the area.
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04/07/19 01:26 PM
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Re: bait for coon traps
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04/12/19 11:29 PM
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I have a live trap at the house. In the past month I have caught 7 coons and one possum on corn. And no I do not move them except to the buzzard diner.
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04/12/19 11:45 PM
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If you are just after coons.....cattle cubes (cow treats as my kids used to call them). Coons, skunks, possums all seem to like similar foods....you are going to get some bycatch.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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04/12/19 11:48 PM
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They tear open my porch screens for dry cat food. And that’s the bait tonight and the rest of the week. Payback...
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Re: bait for coon traps
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05/04/19 05:52 PM
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I use the cheapest tuna I can find.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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05/16/19 10:33 PM
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Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2 (R-TX)
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Re: bait for coon traps
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05/17/19 04:48 AM
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corn soaked in water until its soured had always worked good for me. I stay away from anything with fish as others have commented it will catch skunks and I personally do not ever want to target a skunk in a trap.
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Re: bait for coon traps
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05/18/19 02:53 PM
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Canned cat food. Put it in the trap, in the afternoon, there will be a coon in it the next morning. Works every time. If you accidentally catch a possum, let it go.
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