OT: bait for live trap

Billy C. · Aug 3, 2014

The hot wire around my meal corn is not keeping the coons out--ground too dry for contact probably. Plan on buying a live trap this afternoon to try to catch them. What should I use for bait in the trap? Thanks.

old · Aug 3, 2014

Well if there trying to get corn meal then bait it with corn meal

Nick167 · Aug 3, 2014

I have had wonderful luck with peanut butter on a cracker or cookie if there was a coon around he was in the trap the next morning

David G · Aug 3, 2014

Make sure and take the coons for a last swim after you catch them, please do not drop them off somewhere else.

LA in WI · Aug 3, 2014

Marshmallows! Sounds crazy, but works every time.
Put a couple into far end of trap so coon has to step on trigger plate, throw a couple leading into trap.

If you use meat or fish scraps you will catch a skunk. Skunks are not interested in marshmallows.

Works much better than peanut butter and less messy in warm weather.

LA in WI

Billy NY · Aug 3, 2014

How about fixing the original problem, dump a couple of watering cans and or 5 gallon buckets around the ground rod before dusk. That ought to soak the soil well enough to get that hot wire "hot" again. I've done this in sandy soil with shallow ground rods due to the ledge rock below, works for quite awhile. Sometimes I've piled mulch and such around it to maintain it longer.

Bob Harvey · Aug 3, 2014

Had success with a whole raw egg. HTH

onefarmer · Aug 3, 2014

In the barn they would get into the cat food so that's what I baited the trap with. Worked in the barn..

dmiller · Aug 3, 2014

was told once that sweet things attract coons, meat attracts skunks. We have most success with a fresh egg.

JD Seller · Aug 3, 2014

Canned cat food draws them like flies. It has a good aroma and they smell it an come running. Friend uses it and he actually caught two coons at once this spring. LOL

Billy C. · Aug 3, 2014

They are not getting corn meal, they are getting the corn that I am growing to have ground into meal this fall after it dry's.

old · Aug 3, 2014

The whole point is you bait it with what there going after. As for the ground being dry simply water it

samuel c · Aug 3, 2014

sardines - the aroma draws them in. put the open can at far end of trap. alternatively, pour the oil/water on a slice of bread put the bread in the trap and eat sardines my uncle used to do this with great success

Bob Bancroft · Aug 3, 2014

I've tried all these various things- cat food, peanut butter, etc. etc. with no luck. Finally put some dry shelled corn in a little tin. Just caught the eighth one of the season last night. Wheat works too.

rustyfarmall · Aug 3, 2014

Leave the live trap in the barn, ans set just the bait out where the coons will find it. The next morning, simply dispose with the carcass.

rrlund · Aug 3, 2014

The wife uses marshmallows and peanut butter for coons.

Weldon K · Aug 3, 2014

So, the corn that your coons are after is a growing corn crop and the coons are tearing the stalks down to get the tender "roasting ear" stage corn, right?
Bait a cage type trap with marshmallow creme poured on the trigger and on the ground underneath, grape jelly, oatmeal cookie with creme filling, sardines, canned cat food, really many things work well. Place some bits of bait to make a trail leading into the trap to entice him in. Just be sure to put most of the bait on the ground under the trap's trigger area so that the critter has to work the trigger to get the bait.

J.Wondergem · Aug 3, 2014

They were in my sweet corn and tried baiting them with it and it didn't work. So I tried marshmallow and some peanut butter, and it worked. One tore the back of my live trap open by springing the sides out, and had to tie them together with zip ties.

SweetFeet · Aug 3, 2014

Husband has trapped them using:
day old donuts
left-over fried chicken
cat food
corn

Geo-TH,In · Aug 3, 2014

Neighbor uses marshmellows.

Will Herring · Aug 3, 2014

Neighbor had success with fried chicken skin (he borrowed it from me), and sometimes no bait (just place it close to the garden, they're apparently stupidly curious).

HillsofTn · Aug 3, 2014

When all else fails, try a honeybun. That is what I use and it has never failed me! It has even helped catch the neighbor"s cat, but the less said about that the better off I am!

Note: They are not particular - you can even use the cheap offbrand ones...........

OliverGuy · Aug 3, 2014

Potatoes and an ounce of beer in the bottom of an old cut off water bottle. Drink the 11 ounces, go to bed, guaranteed coon in morning!

Rollie NE PA · Aug 3, 2014

There is a dog proof leg hold trap for coons that works great. It is called Coondagger. It won't break the coons leg, but the coon won't get away either. Bait it with sardines or marshmallow. The rest is up to you.
Some people trap them and then take them somewhere and let them lose. A male coon has about a 8 mile radius that it roams and the female about 3 miles.

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