What do you reccomend? What works the best? I have trapped two coons this week with tuna fish, but was curious what other stuff I could use?
Thanks

Shellfish oil. Canned Jack Mackeral produces a very strong odor also.

Coons raid garbage cans..................do you know what I mean !?


Don't go feeding them gourmet meals !

What do mean by that?

When does/did trapping coons start??

I don't trap but i hear coons eat a lot of stuff.............why not just stick with tuna if that's already caught you 2?

coons eat out of garbage cans = not picky eaters.

Oh....... ok.

Dried dog food. For the price of a couple cans of tuna you can buy enough of it to last all season. Coons like to raid people's yards for it, so they associate human smell with it without it making them wary. I've trapped coons off and on for 30 years and used all sorts of baits like: mackeral, tuna, sardines, professional lures, cut up fish, etc. But now all i will use is dried dog food because it is about the cheapest and most convenient bait you can get and it is easy to store and handle.

Iv trapped alot of coons i use to use sardines dog food tuna an stuff but u will also catch opossums and other varmints. The only thing anyone around where i live is honey buns or something sweet honey buns are the best thing

If you've trapped an area for years and you know where coons are located year after year or know how to read sign, no bait or lure of any kind is needed to catch coons all night long. It's all about trap placement and location.

Shelled corn will attract every coon around and yet has very little smell. Given time coons will find it though. When I set traps for coons, I want to take as many out as possible as fast as I can, maintaining traps for a week or more can be difficult. Suppose you have an area to trap located near a sub-division where the coon population desperately needs reduction, but can't get but so close due to non-target catches. Would shelled corn, garbage, honey buns or dog food have the ability to pull the coons hundreds of yards to a location they could be safely eradicated? Possibly given enough time. Or you could use something that reaches far and wide, that a coon simply can not resist. Works much like a call, sometimes light calling works, sometimes you need to turn up the volume.