What are your thoughts on coon and otter carcasses or fleshings for bobcat bait. I got a coon and otter yesterday and got to thinking I had never tried either for bobcat bait. I’ve used otter gland content on coyote sets for a change up and had great results. I never used the carcasses for bait though.

Down here nothing eats otter, not even the buzzards. The only thing we use them for is crab bait. Maybe you can use them up north, but down here its a no-go for bait.

Ive not heard they make good bait but ive heard cats are very interested in the otter glands

I know coyotes like otter gland. I used to have a property I trapped which took me next to a major river. Some of my coyote sets were within feet of the river. A friend had trapped it in previous years and told me how he would occasionally catch an otter in on of his coyote sets. He’d take the glands out right there and evacuate some of the juice in the catch circle and reset. He said is was great for coyotes.

Whenever I’d catch an otter in a coyote set I did the same thing and almost alway caught one or more coyotes on the otter remake.

Up here, put a coon on a carcass pile and it will still be there after everything else is gone. Crows may pick at it but nothing else seems too interested.

Like Tony said. Coon in these parts only the maggots and vultures eat

It's the same thing here, they'll lay there until they melt down. Now maybe if you used the back end with glands attached you might catch something. But that would be a curiousity response to the glands rather than a bait response.

The only thing I've seen eat a coon carcass was marsh hawks in weather like were having now...with days in the teens.

I've got Johnny Thorpe's Eastern Coyote DVD. He used to hang coon carcasses up in trees for a draw station. Probably more for the odor and eye appeal of buzzards, but he still put them to use.

I would those are the worste things a person can use for bait, I know especially here.

In Ray Milligan's "Coyote Fever" book he will put a coon head down a badger hole or other existing large hole with success apparently. Like others suggested this might be a curiosity thing rather than a food-driven thing.