RE: Raccoon Trapping
wihunter says it best. Lay alot of traps. If your are baiting them, then turn off the feeder for a day or two and use the feed as bait in your live traps, dirt holes, etc... They may not go for other traditional baits if they are happy with what you are already feeding them. Curiosity baits may have some effectiveness. Anchor your traps well. Coon are amazingly strong for their size. Don't give them anything to use as leverage to decrease the chance of one powering out of a foothold. Check the traps daily at first light. They may chew a bit in a foot hold. Contrary to what most Disney patrons think, this is not an effort to chew off a foot to escape. They are chewing at the "thing" (trap) that is holding them. After a bit in the trap, the foot goes numb. As they chew on the trap, when they can no longer feel the foot below the grip of the trap, they inadvertantly chew the foot as well. This is why they don't chew above the grip of the trap. A smaller trap alleviates most of this, as there is little room to get the mouth around the trap and numbed part of the foot.
Most of the above applies to footholds not cage traps. Bodygrip traps are good, but are lethal and nondiscriminant. If there are no concerns about taking a domestic or other animal out of season or illegal to trap, then they are a good option. Hate to see a young deer with a 220 clamped about because he was curious or liked the smell or look of some bait in a bucket. More of a concern if setting in the vicinity of a feeder where the deer are congregating.