Hey guys. What's the best bait for raccoons when your trapping them with a live trap? I have heard marshmellows but didnt know about that ??? Any suggestions? Thanks
Houston: Sir; peanut butter, sardines, corn on the cob, potted meat, dog food, cat food, bologna,
just about anything
and yes I've done exactly this.
While doing this; rabbit, house cats, squirrel, neighborhood dogs, with raccoon added in.
getting them in a cage is easy, getting the thing out is entirely another matter.
follow up with your experience
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A can of sardines works well, and to add to it use a couple of drops of anise oil, they love it. a couple of cotton balls with anise oil on them will work too.
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MARSHMELLOWS! MARSHMELLOWS! AND EVEN MORE MARSHMELLOWS! Cheap, not as messy as tuna, sardines or even peanut butter and definately not as smelly as sardines. Easy to keep in your pocket. You can stick them on a branch like they do for roasting. Just another option for ya'.
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Hey guys. What's the best bait for raccoons when your trapping them with a live trap? I have heard marshmellows but didnt know about that ??? Any suggestions? Thanks
now don't laugh at this one, but a couple of yrs ago we had a raccoon invading our house and my wife called animal control and they brought a trap and set it up with
fig newtons. the next morning there was a big ol' coon in the trap.
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The best is sardine's or kipperd herring (metal can) puncture the can with a nail/ice pick and dribble a oily trail right into the live trap and set the can at the back of the cage.
I used to use Goobers it is Peanut Butter and Grape jelly mixed in a jar together you can get it at just about any grocery store or make your own. Fish also works well use to catch Bluegills in this farm pond and bait with them. Just about anything a cat or dog eats a coon eats.
The 12 racoons that have been showing up on our deer camera are eating field corn on the cob and apples. I have pics of them toting them around in their mouths. Had a coyote eat an apple too.
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Where are you people setting your traps?I am hungry. sam.
Just outside of a small Iowa town on my grandpa's land, that's where.
I love his land, nice little creek running through to set all sorts of traps up by.
Can of sardines with hot sauce,cats and other animals don't really like the hot sauce. Bananas worked too. Most other animals aren't even remotely interested in bananas. We one caught one with a can of Pepsi too. That would have made a good commercial.
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I trapped a racoon that was sleeping in my chimney flue with a can of tuna. Next day I trapped my neighbors cat...then later that night I trapped an opposum...all on that one can of tuna.
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