Over 20 years experience and thousands of coons caught in many different DP traps speaking is all.

Never had a problem with coon eating cheap dry cat food , or dry dog food.
As a matter of fact I learned about dry dog food from the coons destroying hundreds of bags at a local grain elevator!
60 YEARS AGO.

Good for you. I could care less if you heed my advice, madam. I was posting for those seeking advice.

I didn't read all the replies on here so not sure if it was mentioned already. Something large under the trigger can be better sometime. There was or is a thing out there called coon grabbers for dps. I had some of the origals way back and have used them and they work. Th e y go under the trigger. When I was first messing with the original grizz dps. Someone suggested a smaller plastic tub bait or soft hose on the triggers. So I had done some up with tube baits like that. I never kept records on what was better than what caught coon in all of them.

I think the main thing is having trap where hungry coon goes by.

Mac

LOL ! SMH @ your sad response!

Hey a madam made more money than a lure salesman ! LMAO

I agree , anything that makes the coon work the DP harder.

A processed fish oil soaked square of sponge placed under the trigger works well. Some folks frown on this thinking the coon will eat the sponge, which I guess is possible, but I've never had it occur.

….OW and ADC yall apologize to one another right this instant…. You hear me

Lol, had lots and lots of sponges eaten. Never once saw the need for bait above the trigger. Smear of good tasting/smelling lure on lip or fish oil mix and then fish, catfood, jello covered marshmallows or all mixed below trigger worked fine. Coon grabbers had very little smell after few days and no positive flavors and never worked well for me. Too much bait caused more of a problem when encountering wet and freezing conditions and jammed up triggers and was a pain to clean out after catches. Only caught a few thousand coons over the years but never once felt need to add more bait than barely ti trigger level. Also never saw much difference when converting to push triggers or push/pull triggers or ring triggers. Mice issues robbing out bait solved after first night with small stone and smear oil on top bait still well down....
Be interested to hear from others who caught good numbers of coons if they felt more bait helped them. I really think more than trigger level hurt me and slowed me down cleaning out especially after muddy catches.

sponge jammed on trigger and soaked with flavorful fish oil probably my best results. Normal fish oil is nasty - yes I tried it - would add syrups, molasses, honey, jello etc until it tasted better and very easy and quick to set and rain never caused issue nor freezing

Care to elaborate on good bait?
Wild man’s hammer time
Billingslys dp bait
I’m all ears.

I can't say if those are good or not, I haven't used them.

She started it.

…. Is that true OW? Did you start it ?

Diane is home from the hospital.

I'm worn out.

I got the traps reset and baited. I expect I'll connect again tonight.

Is there any routine maintenance needed on dog proofs?

Keith

Glad she's home.


On my DPs when they don't trigger easily I rub an old wax crayon on the trigger contact point. Pressure wash with a battery powered/portable pressure washer when the bait gets moldy.

Glad she's home Keith. Get some rest.

Exactly.

Thanks Some Guy and Jeff. I'll try waxing the DPs when they get sticky. I'll try some fish based and sweet based lures too. I should pick up another dozen or two DPs and put them out at a farther perimeter from the barns to hopefully pick off the predators on my birds before they cost me more. So far, I'm only trapping near where my barns were torn into. I used to clean out all the predators i could catch during season, but haven't the last few years. i should have been more proactive on predator control. I had an expensive lesson.

I just ran my traps again. One of the box traps was backed out of again. The others were all set still.

I got another young of the year coon in a DP.



I got a decent sized opossum in a DP.



I shot 2 medium sized rats.

Keith

Way to tear at em' Kieth. I went to DPs in the summer on coon/possum/skunk at my farm also. Get around 12-18 coon a year, a few possum and a skunk or two.
Glad your Mrs. is home. Hope you both get some much needed home rest and can relax a little. Take care and good trapping