Let's have some fun.

We've all been caught unprepared at least once on a job and had to scrounge for bait. What's the strangest, goofiest bait you've used, and caught the target animal? Why do you think it worked?

I think the strangest one for me was Swedish fish candy on a woodchuck. I stacked it and tied it in the upper back corner of a single door trap and placed it in a flower bed where the woodchuck was browsing.

I think it worked because it mimicked a red flower that might be worth eating.

I had a homeowner show me how he was catching garden robbing groundhogs in his cage trap. He'd catch them and payed me to dispatch them for him.
He wore them out on Reece's Pieces.
E.T. phone home.

Coon jobs using ghost sets, which is no bait and is solely dependent on the cage for eye appeal and odors associated from previous catches that were trapped in the cage to bait/lure them in. Strange to some, but I use it quite a bit.

Arby's Horse Radish sauce has hammered the cottontail rabbits for me....and catches a good amount of coon, possum and skunk in the Fall when I'm short of my usual baits.

I found I was left a bait bucket in one of our trucks I took for setting up a coon and ghog job one day with some near empty bait and lure bottles.

I had lunch at McDonalds just earlier and had the lunch bag and lunch refuse on the truck floor, so I rolled up the sandwich wrap papers and tore up the boxes and placed the remnants in the back of the cages.

I had catches later in that day with a ghog and a couple of coon the next day. I wasn't real surprised really. Eye appeal and some trace odors works just fine if you are set on the feeding or travel areas.

I have caught many rabbits on plain old dollar store hot
Dogs.

Strawberry licorice for groundhog

Like Bob, using fast food refuse. Bojangles chicken bones are deadly on skunks

poop

Love few days old moles for possums

joepennanti , I think it was his own 💩💩 lol

Used licorice on a coon problem in town plus have used rasberry filled rolls for coon also.

One spring I was short some coon bait so I used some Drummond Camel meat ,it really stunk to say the least, but it worked. You could smell the sets 100 yards downwind when approaching.

Raspberry rolls sounds good to me and my taste buds.

Pc of cherry pie with BBQ potato chips