Still a weekend warrior and limited to how many days I can actual trap. Was thinking of spreading some corn in certain locations to keep coon checking trap locations. With heavy deer population would need to make unpalatable to deer. Was told I should sour corn but don't know if that would work.

Dog food. Many young hounds are put on hot coon over dog food feeders.

Or cheap cat food. Either would be much better than corn.

I've used powdered molasses. But don't know if that be good around deer

Corn will last in rainy weather. Dog food, cat food, etc will not.

A bucket feeder will pretty much keep your dog or cat food dry. Otherwise you could use floating fish food .

Depends on how much money you got. You could dump a couple hundred pounds of corn every Sunday evening and wait to set until you start getting coons show up, providing the deer don’t have it gone before then. I haven’t found anything you can do to corn that’ll keep deer away. I just set 2-3 DP’s with catfood around the feeders or feed sites and wait.

Any of the advice above is good if you use dog proofs. A FISH BASED cat food is best and you can add some stuff if you like. Corn is great also. I lived in states where you could bait deer and coons am we’re ALWAYS on target. Dog proofs will eliminate most other stuff. I did catch a fawn deer in a DP once. Possums and the occasional skunk will get caught.

Go buy a gallon of barbecue sauce and mix with a couple gallons of dry corn. Put a couple cups of it at each location you want to trap. Put some in the DPs you’ll also put out about 10 ft from the center pile.

Go buy a jar of cheap grape jelly and have some fun or even a can of tuna fish in oil and it should last through a rain storm both have worked very well and saved many upland birds over the years .

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Allan

I bet fish oil and or BBQ sauce would keep deer from eating corn. will try.

When we moved to this place a few years back, it came with 4 barn cats, with food being dispensed thru a self feeder in the barn. Quickly became evident was feeding more coon than cats. Set up a game camera and at one point documented 14 or 15 different coon in one night. Since it was summer took the opportunity to test some of these flavors thrown about........liquid smoke, vanilla, anise, fish oil etc. Set up a test with short sections of pvc pipe and filled them with plain and flavored cat food. Results were.......they had no preference........they ate it all, but always started with the first one they came to.

Have also run tests using a dirt hole in the woods and plain old cheap dry cat food.......the kind they sell in 40 pound bags for barn cats........or in winter........cat food covered in bacon grease.......high energy fat.......will draw in just about anything that wears fur. Coon, possum, skunk and fox and they will compete with each other for it. Have videos with three at same time waiting to get at it. Compared to what natural food they can find on their own........they love the stuff. They will go out of their way and travel a long way for a bite or two of it.

Fill a soup can or two with dry cat food, then cover that with bacon grease and set it out in a dirt hole where you want to collect them, give it a week and see what happens.

Fish food pond pellets . Used to run hundreds of dog proofs on rivers and used many baits but found fish food pond pellets worked the best. They would resist wetness better than dog or cat food. Would melt a coffee can of bacon gease and mix it in with a 5 gallon pail of fish pellets . Tried mixing molasses with the pellets also but they would almost always pass up the mollasses covered ones for the bacon grease mixed ones. I dont know what a 50 pound bag of fish pellets runs nowadays, but back when I was buying them they were not much more than shell corn. I think the shell corn was close to$8 for a 50lb bag and the fish pellets were around 12 bucks for a 50lb bag.