I'm not a trapper per se like some of the guys who have posted here, but I have trapped many raccoons to train coonhounds with. I don't know anything about connibears (sp.?) and #2's and such, but I have caught a lot of coons in live traps. I have a large metal wire trap that has a little trip lever in the back of it. Believe it or not, I've caught coons on lots of different bait, but chips ahoy chocolate chip cookies work really well for me! Anything you would normally throw away in your trash will get them though. I've used left over tuna salad, bologna, sweet feed grain that you feed to horses, canned salmon, lota of different things. Also, I don't know where you are located, but in my neck of the woods, coons a real nuisance around dumpsters and trash cans. Most of the state parks around my area will let you trap coons in them to help get rid of them. Maybe you could ask around and see if the little buggers are making a nuisance of themselves somewhere like that.

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