This season I will be trapping for coon in areas that have a lot of barn cats running around so I am looking for a bait or lure that I can use that won’t attract cats. I usually use fish based bait for raccoon which will lure barn cats in like crazy. I know that coons like sweet stuff which cats done usually go for so can anyone recommended a good coon bait that cats will not be interested in?

~~Tom

One lure that I know of ----- Coon Candy... Click on the Dobbins Products catalog.

I know you cant sell barn cats but there alot of fun to catch lol

coon candy is good stuff. I like to put a dab on a stick in the top of my pockets.

What is the advantage to buying a lure like coon candy as opposed to using stuff from the pantry?

secret ingredients. Don't know, but I DO use stuff from the pantry, with a little dob of lure just for good luck and it increased my catches.

is there anything short of a secret ingredient you can add to stuff from the pantry that will maybe carry the scent a little further?

mini-marshmellows with cane syrup with a shot of vanilla extract.

Thanks for the replies so far. I will have to try some “Coon Candy” or experiment with marshmallow and other sweet stuff.

marshmellows is all i use in cages around where cats are, works real well and has alot of eye appeal.

ground corn

dobbins coon candy smells real sweat

you want something sweet. try hardcore coon by wildlife research

Plum loco works well, I also have used Last snack, i cant remember who makes it but it smells like fudge.

Persimmions!

Crowkiller

The possum will love ya too if ya use Persimmons

I came accross a old timmer from kentucky who manufactured some stuff called "Bandit Butter", well he had passed away 2 years ago and I traveled back down there to an estate auction his family had, well to make a long story short I purchased the "blue prints" to this stuff and have used it for 2 seasons now and it is unbeleiveable! no cats at all and very few if any grinners, and it puts a pounding on coons!

ketchikan raccoon paist bait with sum peanut butter cap'n crunch

i pretty sure that a hungry cat would eat bout anything.

I had the same issue when i was trying to live trap some coons not to long ago i wetn to my pantry and mixed up some peanut butter and hersheys strawberry syrup and a handful of my horses sweet feed it worked on the first night im sure the peanut butter and strawberry syrup would work well alone.