Homemade Coon Bait Recipes

SouthernBlood · 10-26-2008, 11:25 PM

coon trapping season is startin up here soon and i was wonderin wut yalls favorite homemade coon bait recipes are. here in nebraska i get pretty good luck on sardines or basically anything fishy. my favorite recipe would have to be a can of sardines mixed in with some cream corn and some honey and mix it up. so lets have some fun and hear everyones recipes.

Mooseman684 · 10-27-2008, 01:39 AM

Canned Cat food...My mom cant keep the coons away from the stuff...
Friskies Brand salmon or Mixed flavor !
True story,
Rich

roverboy · 10-28-2008, 01:01 PM

I never have trapped for the hides because they ain't worth too much here. My grandpa used to back when I was a kid though. I used to trap'em live to help train my dogs. I would always release them later in a area I coon hunted. I used mackeral,sardines,maple syrup,tuna,marshmallows ,peanut butter.

toolman · 10-28-2008, 01:11 PM

they love deer corn around here.

andrew cochran · 10-28-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mooseman684

Canned Cat food...My mom cant keep the coons away from the stuff...
Friskies Brand salmon or Mixed flavor !
True story,
Rich

+1 I've used it with excellet sucess.

jimkim · 10-28-2008, 02:48 PM

Get a tin of sardines in hotsauce. Nice flag.

Gopher3604x4 · 10-30-2008, 09:12 AM

We just set the trap next to the chicken pin.

lefty o · 10-30-2008, 10:30 AM

the one really good trapper i know uses canned cat food, and marshmellows to bait the traps

ShawnF · 11-01-2008, 10:14 PM

I usually use a mix of anise oil and fish oil on a cotton ball.

forestgleaner · 11-13-2008, 08:44 PM

Sweet baits when you only want to attract coon, cheap pancake syrup works. You can also use your old scented plastic fish worms. You can wire a plastic crayfish to the pan, and set the trap so the coon has to reach in to get the bait. Most times a coon will work it till he trips the trap. There was just a good article in fur fish and game about useing pvc pipe to catch racoons. A short piece of four inch pipe, a rounded cap, and a no. 1 coils spring. looked pretty good, might have to try it. It is just about pet proof, for those areas where your bait might draw the wrong kind of attention.

10-26-2008, 11:25 PM	#1
SouthernBlood Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ravenna, Nebraska Posts: 6	Homemade Coon Bait Recipes coon trapping season is startin up here soon and i was wonderin wut yalls favorite homemade coon bait recipes are. here in nebraska i get pretty good luck on sardines or basically anything fishy. my favorite recipe would have to be a can of sardines mixed in with some cream corn and some honey and mix it up. so lets have some fun and hear everyones recipes.

10-27-2008, 01:39 AM	#2
Mooseman684 Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Alaska Wilderness...Currently in Holiday, Fla. Posts: 11,008 Images: 2	Canned Cat food...My mom cant keep the coons away from the stuff... Friskies Brand salmon or Mixed flavor ! True story, Rich __________________ You know you might be facing your doom,when all you get is a click when you're expecting a BOOM!

10-28-2008, 01:01 PM	#3
roverboy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Moss,Tn. Posts: 1,076	I never have trapped for the hides because they ain't worth too much here. My grandpa used to back when I was a kid though. I used to trap'em live to help train my dogs. I would always release them later in a area I coon hunted. I used mackeral,sardines,maple syrup,tuna,marshmallows ,peanut butter. __________________ I wanna SKS just 'cause Obama don't want me to have one.

10-28-2008, 01:11 PM	#4
toolman Mr. Fixit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: abilene,tx Posts: 6,040 Blog Entries: 24	they love deer corn around here. __________________ cosmoline is an aphrodisiac!

10-28-2008, 02:48 PM	#6
jimkim Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Near the Little Ocmulgee river in GA Posts: 2,612 Blog Entries: 15	Get a tin of sardines in hotsauce. Nice flag. __________________ "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum."

10-30-2008, 09:12 AM	#7
Gopher3604x4 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: 1/2 mi. off the dirt road. Posts: 157	We just set the trap next to the chicken pin. __________________ That critter died of a turminal case of hi velosity lead poisoning. Gopher

10-30-2008, 10:30 AM	#8
lefty o Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: mn Posts: 5,358	the one really good trapper i know uses canned cat food, and marshmellows to bait the traps

11-01-2008, 10:14 PM	#9
ShawnF Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Buffalo Wyoming Posts: 140	I usually use a mix of anise oil and fish oil on a cotton ball. __________________ shoot low they might be crawling

11-13-2008, 08:44 PM	#10
forestgleaner Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 189	Sweet baits when you only want to attract coon, cheap pancake syrup works. You can also use your old scented plastic fish worms. You can wire a plastic crayfish to the pan, and set the trap so the coon has to reach in to get the bait. Most times a coon will work it till he trips the trap. There was just a good article in fur fish and game about useing pvc pipe to catch racoons. A short piece of four inch pipe, a rounded cap, and a no. 1 coils spring. looked pretty good, might have to try it. It is just about pet proof, for those areas where your bait might draw the wrong kind of attention.