I have live trapped 11 coons so far this year. They keep trying to get into my pheasant pen.. I only currently have 4 year old silver pheasants as last fall they attacked my birds and wiped most of them out. I used sardines for a while and that worked some. I tried using a couple of chubs I caught while trout fishing and they only reached threw the wire and pulled them out.. They just wouldn't go in. Then the attacked where I stored by bird food at. So I put some of that in the trap. Bingo that did the trick and I caught 4 more big coons. 1 was so big it couldn't get turned around in my trap when I took it away and released it. I had to stand in the body of my truck and dump it out. They can be mean when releasing them so becarefull.