Fruit Loops and Wildlife Research Hard Core. For the fishy thing, salmon dry cat food and some really loud shellfish oil. Coons love 2 things very well. Fishy or really sweet.

As I’ve previously posted (maybe on a different thread), our DNR doesn’t like prebaits that might attract and concentrate deer. The regs say no corn, grains or derivatives (flour) and no fruit or vegetables. This is restricted to the counties where chronic wasting disease has been found.

Okay, I tried the kitten food, Smokin aces / persimmon oil/ molasses and anise mixtures and found them to be mediocre when our season rolled around. Did better with calf starter with a couple drops on the DP rim of Moonshine or Smokin’ Aces. Banana Supreme held its odor and thus coon catching power much better.

In the past, I’ve used wool under the trigger but it got pulled out a lot. At the recommendation of Ron Jones, I used stiff fiberfill instead and I liked that better. A dollop of Banana Supreme on the fiberfill kept the mouse action to a minimum. Any left over after the season came out when I took out the fiberfill.

The locations I pre-baited, before having to pull the pre-baits, didn’t produce at all. A warden friend said distemper affects certain areas, mine included, leaving us with only very large coon. I think I got one small one all season. The vast majority were over 22 pounds. Of the last 10, I think the smallest was 4X. Apparently living in groups isn’t good when distemper is in town.

If you don’t live in an area of chronic wasting disease or DNR restrictions on prebaiting, or distemper in the flock, prebaiting does work. Murse/Wade Ryan proved that a couple years ago. He used liquid smoke and dog food. I’ve found liquid smoke oil is better than grocery store liquid smoke (in water) because it holds its odor much longer.
All in all, the prebait mixtures would have done much better if A) we didn’t have to contend with distemper and B) there were no chronic wasting disease restrictions in place.

I tried this with conibears last night, we will see how it works, I was getting tired of messy stuff.

pieces of black twizzlers
mini marshmallows
premium dry cat food

Bigfoot, Captain Crunch with a good sweet lure works too. The Wildlife Research Hard-Core is hard to beat for sweet lure. A few drops in the DP and a few above on a branch.

Hard to beat 'Floating (catfish) fish food' , but any dry (small pellet) dog or cat food, especially anything with salmon flavor, work extremely well.
You can use wet canned pet food or fish products like king mackerel , works great, unless you're in freezing conditions.
Horse feed with granulated molasses ? You bet !
Sweet ( kids) cereal isn't too bad and cheap enough from the Dollar stores and an 'off brand' or imitation.
All of it works, we just need a better market !