You guys have the perfect house cat and possum bait. Yeah it will catch coons. I’ll stick to my strawberry marshmallows. Tried the Smokey fish when trapping coons in city around dumpsters too many cats the restaurant workers were feeding.

I would be nice if there was a perfect DP bait. Truth is, coons will walk right by a DP sometimes, no matter what is in it.

Not if you add those glow in the dark eggs you're so fond of.

I'm tired of all these bizarre DP bait concoctions I keep reading about. Go to the feed store and buy a 40 lb bag of fish pellets. No lure, no trailing scent, nothing. For 5 or so coon pelts $ you have enough for a couple years of bait and pelts. Sorry lure makers. Had a parade of coons going by wifes horse barn. Set 5 caught 5! I'm new to trapping though, 55 years plus.

My partner discovered it’s not the bait that gets them to commit, it’s a movable light colored cap on the trap. Golf balls work. We use Ztrap covers. They move when the coon touches them and this creates curiosity. Cats leave them alone. Big skunks and the occasional possum sometimes get caught. But big coon are curious enough to pull the covers off and reach in.

You can make your own with 3/4-inch plastic pipe, a fender washer and some glue. Duck decoy cord keeps the caps attached to the traps. Even if they get chewed apart, you’ll have about 40-cents into them. The Zcaps are a bit more but they last forever.