COON BAITS

There is only one bait to use for coons, if you want to get more of them then you can handle and that’s marshmallows. They go absolutely nuts over them, if you don’t believe me just try it and you will find out like I did. I trapped 11 of them on my lot within 2 months, and my lot is only 100’ x 200’, I used a live trap that I made. Be sure to put a board under the trap or they will pull all of your grass up as far as they can reach right down to the dirt!
 
after cleaning fish in the summer freeze head bones and guts take ax chop off hunk better than a whole fish bg
 
one thing i have learned is that "too smelly" will catch you alot of opposums.......
at top dollar of .50 that means a bunch of wasted time on a line for me.....remake set, dispose of animal...if you're trapping for profit (which happens very little this day and age) they are a burden not a reward. keep the odors down and you'll get just as many coons, and mink, fewer speed bumbs=possums
 
Can of sardines cracked open,drip juice around outside of cubby and throw can in back.For bodygrips you can wire can to trigger.
 
Sardines in Oil. Good and cheap. If you use water sets you will eliminate virtually everthing except coons, at least in my area. I caught very few possoms in watersets. I have also caught an otter an one bobcat in the water sets. If mink are in the area they would also hit the watersets.
 
Try mixing 2 cans of Jack or King Mackerel, with enough honey to make a paste. Then mix in 1/4 oz of asafoetida. the honey acts as a preservative in warm weather. If you want to use the bait for canines, cats, ringtails or badgers add 1 oz. of beaver castor per 1/2 gallon of bait. Personally I drain off the liquid before I mix it with the honey. Good luck and welcome to the board.
 
Coon Baits????

All the above answers to your question were great ones....

Some others you might want to try is:

Cow cake and molassas

Banana flavored marshmellows

Day old sweetrolls

1 cup of molassas, 1 cup of fish oil, 1/2 oz. of antise oil, 1/2 oz of mint oil, use as a trailing scent

Sardines, but the skunks and possums like them also...

I can of peaches with the syrup, blended will, add cheap powdered milk until you have a paste, don't make it to thick at first, it will get thicker....

Fish grease from a cafe.

Peanut butter

If you know someone who bails peanuts, trap near the barn where they are stored in... Every coon in the country will be there.

Whole corn, molasses, and antise oil mixed into a paste

molassas and marshmellows...

I can't think of anymore, but if I do I will post them.... LOL....
 
The nice thing about marshmallows is that you don't trap everything else under the sun while trying to catch only coons, and all you have to do is buy a bag of them ready to go! With all of the fish in the other baits you will set your traps of more often with house cats but they don't pay any attention to marshmallows.
 
Marshmellows with peanut butter works well. Also caught 3 in one week in a cage trap, in town, at my grandparents house using chocolate/peanut butter candies. Just unwrapped 2 or 3 and set them in the trap. Guess I have also used marshmellows with strawberry jam.

Brad
 
While at a local sporting goods store the other day I came across some stuff called Smelly Jelly that is used for fishing. One which was called Sardine has a very powerful smell. I'm going to make up my own coon bait using this,along with some 9 Lives canned cat food and see if the coons will like it. Last year I used shellfish oil with a coon bait I purcahsed and had good luck with that. Hopefully my cocktail will work just as well. Anyone have any other ideas as far as other ingredients that I might want to use?
 
gonna save you guys some real money.
I am going to give 3 of my favorite formulas.
I built my first house in 1989 with fur money.
I caught 1260 coons in one season not including Fox, Muskrats, Beavers and Mink. I trapped the PA turn pike from Harrisburg to Scranton. Every stream, creak and culvert.
I used a total of 3 lures.
#1 Go to your local feed mill. Take a 5 gallon pail and a lid with you. Fill it up with black strap molasses. When you get home take the lid off for a few days. Look in your yellow pages for a food distributor. Call them and get 2 pounds of annis. Mix one pound of annis into the molasses.
Keep stirring replace the lid and let sit. In a day take the lid off and stir again. Eventually it will blend. Pour contents into gallon jugs available at the same place you got your annis.
In each gallon add 2 more ounces of annis. I use squeezable ketchup bottles on the trap line. The lure is cheap use a bunch and you will spank the coon. Lure #2 same base but use peppermint extract. You will catch a ton of Muskrats with both spearmint or peppermint.
Lure #3 cost a little. Buy a gallon of fish oil juice from a trapper supply house. Split into 2 separate gallon containers. Buy a pound of shellfish oil, split between both jugs. add a can of mackerel to each gallon. Shake like crazy. Buy a gallon of cod liver oil and make up the difference. I add a couple table spoons of sodium benzoate to each gallon to keep fish from spoiling. I use a squeeze bottle like the ones for mustard. The lure with the fish has a tendency to clog. shake every time before use. I used to trap for a living and found coon to be the easiest and most predictable animal to catch. Another big secret to large coon catches. Pre bait!! I had an in with a Duncan Donuts for all their old stuff. I would start 3 weeks before the season baiting then gang set the area.
 
A friend of mine had trouble with racoons in his attic. He used canned cat food or a can of tuna. He'd just open the can and put it in the back of a live trap. Seemed to work great. Only bummer was he got a skunk one time.

Paul
 
Another one that will catch coons, but the possums will leave alone is health bars made with carroway seeds and honey. I would mix honey with anise oil and smear it on a limb above a cubby set, then put one of the "bars" in the set. Coons will rip the place up trying to get to it. The honey held up better in cold or rainy weather.
 


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