I was wondering what y'all use for coon bait. I made some bait from sardines and tuna with a little vanilla to put on top of the trap. Is it better to use fish pellets,cat food,corn,dog food. I think mixing fish pellets with feed corn would work good. Let me know
Thanks jon C.

any kind of fish is deadly for coon

I use apple scented deer corn. Works great and keeps the trap clean.

Ground fish to start, dry bait later.

I use the cheapest dry cat food I can find

I get cheap fish flavored dry cat food and some cheap dog food that has chunks barely big enough to slide by the trigger and down into the trap. The dog food is cheaper so it stretches out my bait, and being bigger makes the trigger have to be moved by the Coon to get it.

That’s the theory anyhow. I fill up to just above trigger and a few pieces on the ground in front. Lure on lip, cap or homemade fish oil for trailing.

I can’t stand sticky stuff stuck in the dp at the end of the year.

Before any freeze I soak cotton balls in Loganberry oil, or Anise oil. Put it behind trigger. That's for ADC work, fur trapping is oily cat food

cheapest cat food you can find, sprinkle good with the cheapest liquid smoke you can find, i use gallon size zip loc for transport, fill dp half full, sharpen knives, collect coon. cheap, easy, works

They’re all right ^^^^^. Cause they’ll eat ANYTHING. Go whatever’s cheapest.

Not all bait is created equal, if anyone thinks that they are missing coon and catching possums and skunks.

Give ADC here a call. All I use is his dp bait.

My friend at school told me that him and his dad used marshmallows, maple syrup, and Fruity Pebbles. They mixed all together into a sticky mess. The next weekend I tried It, and it worked (I also put sardines on top)! I usually use dog food, vanilla, and sardines all mixed together. Then I put a stick next to it with Hawbakers #1 Muskrat Lure on top. Works great for me.

Marshmallows with grape or cherry Kool-aid powder on em. Spear marshmallow on the trigger.

Keep it simple. Didn’t have any thawed out fish so I grabbed the dogs chow and dumped some into a gallon ziplock bag. Grabbed the plain Cheerios out of the cabinet and dumped some of that in to mixed it around and dumped into the dps as I set them.Set 6 dps and caught 8 coons in three nights. Put the trap where the coon will find it and you will catch coon. These were all z traps so they were push pull to fire. If I use my pull only dps I spear a marshmallow on the trigger.

I use the burnt sludge from the bottom of my VFW's fish fry cookers.

straw berry and maple marshmellows

Keg creek makes a powder that you mix with cat foot or fish food. It’s inexpensive and works great! They make both bite me and hi voltage. Fantastic stuff

What kind of mess do you guys have using the oily, fishy, cat or dog food in your DPs? A little rain in the tube and that dry pet food is mushy...and hard to remove. And any liquid or raw fish baits....just dang! What a mess that is...getting all over everything in the truck bed and other trapping gear.

Cat food doesn’t get wet if you put a golf ball over the top.

I put my bait in caulking tubes and freeze, thaw as needed. No mess and very quick. The secret is the formula, very simple and very effective. I trap around other DP users and seem to out catch them in the same trails.