Registered: Nov 2014
Location: NC
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I been trying to catch coons to move them to my hunting spots and turn out for my pup but I can't seem to catch not a one. Can anyone tell me Sharon doing wrong..?

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Registered: Dec 2013
Location: PA.
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Try throwing a blind robbin or two in with what ever your using for bait. The smell draws them in quick.
Another good bait is marshmellows smeared with penutbutter.

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Try throwing a blind robbin or two in with what ever your using for bait. The smell draws them in quick.
Another good bait is marshmellows smeared with penutbutter.

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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
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I use canned cat food with great results.

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Location: Central Michigan
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This time of year the best set locations are near den sites such as large den trees, barns, and abandon houses. The boars travel from den tree to den tree looking for sows. If there is snow on the ground you will sometimes see a coon trail going from one den tree to another.

You have to set almost on top of the locations. Hormones have their minds on other things rather than their belly.

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chunk style dog food works good for me.place some in the back of trap and little on the ground in front of it.birds wont eat the chunk size

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Golf ball, ping pong ball, marshmellows, anything white really.

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Old smelly soured corn that has been soaked in water for several days works good for me...

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Location: Maryland
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I use sardines in mustard with salmon oil I pour on it and I have this coon jam I put on this sardines smells very sweet and a strong odor.if their in the area I catch me.i get sardines at Walmart for a dollar a can and got the salmon oil and jam out of F&T I believe.

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Registered: Oct 2013
Location: Maryland
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If it is not below freezing outside the absolute best working bait to use is fresh watermelon if you can get it. No B.S., they will risk anything to get to the flavor. Next in line, or if it is freezing is anything sickening sweet. Cake, pie, donuts...jelly smeared on a slice of bread.
Fish and cat food type baits work too, but the problem I had with them is that you catch everything else in the woods, cats, possums and Pepe. Nothing worse than walking into a trap with the door down expecting to have a nice big ole coon and its a big fat skunk just a dancin' on his hind feet eyeballin' you takin' real nice aim!!! They don't seem to go for the real sweet stuff as much around here.

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Originally posted by Larry Atherton
This time of year the best set locations are near den sites such as large den trees, barns, and abandon houses. The boars travel from den tree to den tree looking for sows. If there is snow on the ground you will sometimes see a coon trail going from one den tree to another.

You have to set almost on top of the locations. Hormones have their minds on other things rather than their belly.

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Larry has it nailed. trying to get a coon lured to food this time of year is sometimes like setting a teenage boys desk in the cheerleaders locker room and telling him to do his math or read chapter 5

once the rut is over (and it almost is), the truth is coons will eat just about anything that doesn't eat them first.

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Registered: Aug 2011
Location: Statesville, North Carolina
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I've used anything from sardines to honeybuns covered in peanut butter

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Registered: Jan 2014
Location: Cauthron Ar
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Wade that's called mash

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Registered: Apr 2011
Location: west virginia
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Had the best results using jelly packages
from fast food restaurants. Just squeeze
one on trip pan, split a couple more packs
drop them on pan area. There free and
have never caught a opossum with jelly.

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Ive live trapped probably 100 coons with grape jelly over the years.

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Registered: Jan 2012
Location: canton texas
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well hello barry whitten from a long distance cousin from the Barzillia Graves Whitten clan in texas lol

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Registered: Sep 2011
Location: KNOXVILLE TN
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Vanilla extract and white bread , or any sweet smelling extract ,or honey buns ,ice cream topping ,pretty much if it will rot your teeth it will catch coons lol

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Registered: Aug 2011
Location: Statesville, North Carolina
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I get 5 gallons buckets of cake icing the places I have to hunt gotta use buckets and I'll take the icing and use that to catch coons it work really good

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