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So cheap baits for Coon? #7369671
10/02/21 02:14 PM
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So I was thinking of something in bulk and cheap, like Sweet Feed and Corn with a bit of fish oil sprinkled on them?


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369680
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Page 7. https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/10/1/water-trapping-archive

Page 2 for bait. Page 5 for more coon specific information. https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/8/1/general-trapping-archive

There’s info on buckets cubbies, lure, all kind of stuff in the archives.



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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369691
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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369715
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Cheap dog food mixed with fish flavored cat food is my cheap Coon bait. I use homemade sun rendered fish oil by the set, but not within trap circle.


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369716
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floating catfish food sprayed with liquid smoke.50lbs for 20.00


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369740
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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369742
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I like to use the burnt breading sludge from the bottom of my VFW Post's fish fryers. Nice and stanky and the price is right.


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369748
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Marshmallows are good, I got so annoyed with em nuisance trapping in 90*+ weather and ants I've gone away from em. Catfish food pellets with liquid coon trailing scents or canine bait solution is my cheap bait. Too many cats around for me to use

Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369749
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Sour mash....5 gallon bucket half full of deer corn, some cheap pancake syrup from the dollar store, fill it up with warm water and cover, but not tightly. It'll ferment in a few days and raccoons love it. A half a cup or so of the fermented corn in a bucket set or in a DP.

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Back when I used quite a bit of coon bait I did the following. We have a lot of high moisture corn around here which is fermented and cracked. I would get a 3 gallons from a farmer and buy about 4lbs of the farm type molasses which sold for 20 cents a lbs. and mix those together with 4 cans jack mackerel and stir it up. Smelly, sticky and all edible. As I moved more to blind setting trails I used less and less bait. Rats came to those sets too.
Easy to get into a PVC pipe also.
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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369771
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Dry cat food

Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: garyll1959] #7369776
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Originally Posted by garyll1959
Sour mash....5 gallon bucket half full of deer corn, some cheap pancake syrup from the dollar store, fill it up with warm water and cover, but not tightly. It'll ferment in a few days and raccoons love it. A half a cup or so of the fermented corn in a bucket set or in a DP.

I thought about that but a mix of Sweet feed and Corn soak it and then add molasses that I can get a 3.5lb pail for 20 dollars and add some after.


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I should add I'm using buckets.


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: garyll1959] #7369795
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Originally Posted by garyll1959
Sour mash....5 gallon bucket half full of deer corn, some cheap pancake syrup from the dollar store, fill it up with warm water and cover, but not tightly. It'll ferment in a few days and raccoons love it. A half a cup or so of the fermented corn in a bucket set or in a DP.

I remember using just sweet feed and some supplements for old horses that had very few teeth and making a mash about of it. Kinda the same idea but geared for Raccoon

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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369820
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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369825
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NW Oregon, timber country. Are we talking 220's in buckets ? Where will these be placed ? Always be aware of your non target possibility.

Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: eedup] #7369831
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Originally Posted by eedup
NW Oregon, timber country. Are we talking 220's in buckets ? Where will these be placed ? Always be aware of your non target possibility.

In the forest on private property with no houses near by.


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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369832
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Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369836
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Good deal, is that a pile of apples ? I'm not a bucket fan, so prob should just not comment.

Re: So cheap baits for Coon? [Re: 330 Belisle] #7369854
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Raisins and fruit flavored jello powder. Mix in a large zip lock. Raspberry is what my fur buyer recommended. A little goes a long way. I put it in the back of buckets. About a teaspoon will work. Works for the dumbest coons, then switch to sardines. I was never a high volume guy.

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