Ok so question guys. Say you wanna trap coon for what ever reason but your somewhere where there not just eveywhere . You know some of these places you can set a do down at the creek and get a coon Evey night places like that .I've been told alot about going to water trapping hard woods and what not but personally the only thing that's been able to work good for me is to hang up a deer feeder put a camera on it and gang set around it when theirs alot of coon visiting. I have no clue why but I can but a $50 rotor feeder in a random tree and have 10coon visiting within a week or two in the same area I couldn't find any sign. It's like they hear that thing go off and just appear out if the found or something.I've found I can make my money back off the $7 bag of corn and $10 worth of gas pretty easy compared to trying it the traditional way. Seriously last year I tried scouting, setting hard woods, finding sigh, setting trail and yeeeaahh didn't work out too well.
So with that being said what tricks y'all got ?
Side note they also seem to find any of my hog feeders baited with sour corn within the first night or two so that's something as well.

Its like that here in wv to there might not be coons there in the area until you put out a coon feeder than you get this type of action

East KS is farm country. Corn fields, Big ones. Big timber on field edges. Lots of creeks with corn fields up against them. Plenty of hickory and acorns too. Don't need feeders here. Guys that put them out for deer do feed a lot of coons though. Pens with calves being fed hay and grain till they are sold to feedlots, or feedlots, all have coon trouble also. If you can only find coons with deer feeders you dont have a lot of coons.

I personally like buildings with coon sign inside. A guy can clean em out quick and move on. Easy trapping. Of course we cant use feeders cause its science that deer only spread disease at feeders.

Get you a kitty litter bucket. Drill 1/2 in holes around 3 sides 1 inch from bottom. Wire it to a tree and fill with cheap Walmart dog food. Be sure to wire lid shut. Wait one week and gang set it for 3 nights . Re bait it. Wait 4-5 days and gang set it again for 3-4 nights. You do pretty good. !!!

Do you hav swamps in your area thats open if so i heard of a guy that trapped in georgia swamps when i lived there said he made coon floats and pushed them in the water and tied it off good and nailed the trap to his float said hed use a big pretty flag in the middle of it and used lure id try gland lure some hellfire and coon urin and use big coon floats

Most probably because in MS you can't go more than 1/4 mile without finding them spin cast feeders. I think they just migrate around them waiting for free groceries.

" Say you wanna trap coon for what ever reason but your somewhere where there not just eveywhere ." Here it's pretty simple. It really shouldn't matter where you are. They have to do three things to survive and they do them instinctually. Eat, drink, and get in cover. No matter what they don't survive if that happens. Their locations and habits do change based on what time of the fall/winter it is.

Also with my experience with feeders is once a single coon finds it. It won't take long for the 10 to appear. Trail cameras when I was baiting pretty much told the story. They make noise and get excited when they find food. Their friends know what that sounds like. If you get them to fight at a feeder even better.

He said trapping the feeders will catch him coons but they go drie for about a week after he catches coon on them

Yep cannot cat the directly at the feeder. 15yd away ano prob but if you catch one at the feeder it's dead for a while

Hay man you ain't to far from me !

Say you think the coon floats close to the banks would be a good idea

Haven't had near as much luck doing that as with the spin cast feeder. That being said once I get them in the area with the spin cast I can set one of those but not before

den trees are my only trick
once you find them you will find where they keep coming to nearly every year

put that trap so that they can't not see when they come out of the tree 3-4 dp's for a good tree you may not get that many but you will not know unless you set them.

it takes a lot of scouting , trees with rub marks and fresh scat are golden for coon

feeders might be easier

Not sure where in Amite Co. you are but I'm off of 33 HWY between Gloster and Roxie off of Bunkley Rd. I live on the Homochitto River its one of my property line boundaries.

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Not sure where in Amite Co. you are but I'm off of 33 HWY between Gloster and Roxie off of Bunkley Rd. I live on the Homochitto River its one of my property line boundaries.[/quote]

Lol my truck got stuck down at the river last year
I'm between gloster and liberty down on kanville road

I found this year in my area, the coon were few and far in between. I think there may be some disease setting in from lack of hunting and trapping. I ended up with 9, but I had to work for those.

Garry-

the coon are doing pretty well in south west oh,trapped a spot on oh river,prop owner said it was over run with coon ,i didn't see much sign ,did catch 9 there ,2 where little small.removal of all coon was the deal with owner.other spots
i trapped had a lot more sigh.