What are some good all season lures for coon? Also what’s the best lure for water trapping? I’m planning on going for rats mink and coon

Fish oil is a great year round attractor.

I have had good luck with most commercial coon lures year round. Haven’t found much differences.
Most rat lures are also attractive to coon. I used a lot of blackies blend “money maker” and “sugar babe” and had great luck at rocket sets using those for both coon and rats, sometimes got a beaver or a mink with them too.
Hard to go wrong water trapping with a pocket set and good all around lure.
Not sure why but got a lot of rats and coon off of river clams at pocket sets too. Both seems to like them.
Jim

Alright I was planning on getting some of that, could anyone explain to me what coons like at different times of year?

Like I mentioned I’ve used coon lures year round. Lot of summer damage jobs with sweet corn or garden issues. Cages and a good coon lure worked for me, same ones I used in trapping season late fall winter too.
Not very complicated.
On gravel roads here in summer I see piles of coon poo near the plum thickets and they will be loaded with plum pits. I tried ripe plums for bait in summer and didn’t do as well as I thought. A good coon lure or fish works for me year round.

Oh I was reading some coon trapping books and it says something about sweet and sour lure and there’s atleast 3 lures I can find that all claim the same thing so I’m wondering who was good all season coon lure

Also, last several years I’ve used a jar of Dakota brand coon and rat bait. It’s a reddish clear gel type bait and it works well year round on both species. Smear it on something, in a pocket, in a cage, DP, on a rat float, haven’t gone wrong with that stuff either. Of course also set right on sign and put it under their nose.
Jim

Huh ok I mostly use 110s for rats but I figure in the river where I trap it’s hard to find there holes so I might pick me some of that up, rats are somewhat attracted to fish oil right?

You will catch rats with fish oil. And it is the only coon lure I use. I will sometimes add an ounce of cheap coon lure to a gallon of fish oil.Or spice it up with shellfish oil.

Alright

Cavens Moonshine is my favorite for coon, especially when im trying to avoid cats. Laughing Lady from Mark Steck is like strawberry jelly, works well also. Any time I dont hafta avoid cats, fish oil with a little shellfish oil mixed in. Do NOT overcomplicate lure selection for coon.

Alright so fish oil would be better then most coon lures?

Not sure about better. For me it’s more convenient and economical when running a lot of coon traps. Just give each one a squirt and keep on rolling. I like to add around an ounce of shell fish oil to a 16 ounce squirt bottle of fish oil. Or a couple good glugs of shellfish oil to gallon of fish oil.

Yeah alright

Wild Cherry paste I make myself
Anise oil paste , same

Carp it’s free and plentiful don’t overthink this there’s not much a coon won’t eat.

I don’t know how to get carp, I know a place that’s full of them but they won’t bite

I've used Hawbakers since I was a kid and later I found Carman's Nocturnal to attract the interest of rats, mink and coon. Like has been said above they are not too picky.

I'm not saying that you should use explosives, but explosives will work.

So in theory(totally not doing this) if I where to take some big firework shellls and fill them with gunpowder and put a fuse in the middle with hot glue around it, would it kill carp?