I used a fresh bag of marshmallows for some early coon in DP’s, normally I open the bag for a couple days until they get stiff. I noticed on all the early caught coon that there was no marshmallow on the trigger- meaning, they ripped it off, ate it and went back for more pulling the empty trigger. Has anyone noticed a catch difference with no marshmallow and just bait under the trigger?

Cheapest bag of dry cat food

I add cat food or catfish food on top of the marshmallow- I was told some coons are gun shy when they feel the bare steel trigger… second guessing that?

Mice ate our Marshmellows. Went to a do dry bait, some fish oil or coon lure, and a golf ball over the hole. Works great.
Jim

All I use is Marshmallows with cheap pancake syrup...around here they like them....if your catching coon on marshmallows I wouldn’t be concerned that you have a coon in your DP but no marshmallow, if you had no coon and no marshmallow I’d second guess that..

Good luck

I use the mini marshmallows. They have to work for it more.

Cheap plastic twister tails for fishing, speared on the trigger. Few drops of pure or artificial maple syrup

vinyl tubing just large/long enough to slide over trigger

fish pellets below trigger

large white marshmallow slightly wadded into tube on top

Cheap cat food and cheap syrup or fish oil as a trailing scent.

I prefer catfish pellets and molasses. Going to mix some cheap chocolate syrup with molasses this year.

Handitrapper& Muskrat- I like the twister tails and tubing idea to replace the large marshmallow
because I pre-load everything the night before and cap everything with ¾” PVC. When I set, I replace the PVC with a golf Ball and vice versa when I pull or move locations. I tried turning the PVC cap upside down and adding lure but they typically disappear.
Son-of-Grizz – I’m also using catfish pellets covered in molasses
Ditchdiver- I also use the fish oil and I believe it helps after I cap off the DP with the golf ball, it's seem to work well on banks when you're setting closer to the water.