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Best coon bait for live traps?

I want to see what everybody has figured out to be the best bait to catch coons in a live trap. What does everyone use? and what do you think give the most coons trapped?

Honey Bun with grape jelly

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I like honey bun and koolaide of any type of berry or wet cat food with kooliade that are berry flavor

catfish stinkbait

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No question . Marshmallows. Lots of other things will catch them .... And cats, opossums , n skunks. Never caught anything but a coon on mellows.

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I use canned tuna, or marshmallows.

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A piece of bread, or a honeybun with imitation vanilla extract.

i put a slice of bread with lot's peanut butter on it works good

Marsh mellows by fay, you keep from catching house cats that way.

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John Sisley

GUMMY WORMS. Just be careful if you set them in someones yard where coon having been raiding the bird feeders, if there are young kids around. The people's kid ate all my bait until his mother caught him. I couldn't figure what was getting my bait and not getting caught. LMAO!

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peanut butter on bread or stale doughnuts works great I've also caught lots of'em on the cheap cracker jack wanna-be called Crunch-n-Munch

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No way i would use peanut butter.I've read up on how to catch skunks,and peanut butter on bread is a favorite bait for catching skunks.

Little Debbie pies. Use half for bait, eat the other half on the way back to the truck!

Or peanut butter, jelly and marshmallows.

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Vanilla waffers. We have used them for 20 years and they still work the best and are cheap. 4 or 5 cookies in a trap works great. The best part is you still have the rest of the box snacks for when your hunting.

Ive been thinking about doing mellows! i usually do sardins anybody do sardins?

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Originally posted by English Man 97
Ive been thinking about doing mellows! i usually do sardins anybody do sardins?

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Good point! ill try the marsh mellows! anybody else got anything they use?

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Originally posted by English Man 97
Good point! ill try the marsh mellows! anybody else got anything they use?

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I use sardines in soy bean oil but if I'm around a bunch of cats I use soured corn

fig newton cookies work great for me

I take a apple cut it up into cubes place it in a zip lock bag and pour powered kool aid mix in with them. I let it sit in bag for bout 1 hr then put them in trap have caught nothing but coons doing this.

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Originally posted by TBBLUE
No question . Marshmallows. Lots of other things will catch them .... And cats, opossums , n skunks. Never caught anything but a coon on mellows.

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What gets more coon caught? Simple, first of all, it isn't a bait. It is trap location, trap location, and trap location.

Since you did ask about bait, I use vanilla to pull them in, and I use large marshmellows to seal the deal. I much prefer large marshmellows over the smaller variety. I will take 1 or 2 marshmellows and rip them into dime sized pieces. They work better when they are sticky. Then I lead a small trail of small pieces into the trap. I place whole marshmellows behind the trigger.

Now when you set a live trap set it as if your are trapping a trap shy animal. Nine times out of ten you aren't going to have a trap shy animal, but why not be prepared if one happens along. Trap must set level and does not rock. Then I use the natural ground cover to completely cover the wire mesh bottom. I use just enough natural cover to break up the trap's outline, but leave it so the animal can still see through it. Now set the trap and snap it off several times adjust the pan to trigger with about 1/2-1 lb pressure.

There ya go.

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The Quail Hunting Club near us uses Eggs. Let them set out a few days & let them age some.
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