What do you use for racoon bait in traps

[Kifaru_Kinda_Guy]

Just looking for recommendations I have had pretty good luck with marshmallows in the dukes dog proof traps. Heard cat food is really good also.

 

[Drenalin]

I'm a marshmallow guy. Cat food and tuna tends to attract more skunks than racoons around here. I'm in the camp of leaving skunks the eff alone, and they tend to do the same.

 

[MallardSX2]

Cat food. Put a red solocup on top to keep out the mice.

 

[CHWine]

Sardines in oil or tuna in oil. I have caught lots of skunks tho.

 

[Kifaru_Kinda_Guy]

I'm a marshmallow guy. Cat food and tuna tends to attract more skunks than racoons around here. I'm in the camp of leaving skunks the eff alone, and they tend to do the same.

Yea I definitely want to avoid skunks lol.

 

[shtrbc]

colored mini marshmallows.

 

[92xj]

Honey bun with a grape koolaid powder packet poured on top

 

[Skerhunter]

Nacho cheese duritos. Best bait I ever used. Still use it to trap problem coons at the neighbors.

 

[30338]

Dry cat food has worked and easy to clean out. I need to trap about 50 this winter again.

 

[Ditch Goat]

marshmallow and chocolate syrup in the handhold traps

 

[Lvthntitall]

I mix a can of smoked oysters in a bag of marshmallow, I also do grape jelly and marshmallows

 

[PlumberED]

Cat food is very effective but I’m gonna try marshmallows to see what happens.

 

[Darryle]

Cereal, cheap store brand bag stuff, lasts a long time and you can broadcast a bit of it around the traps.

 

[stump06]

I mix corn and cat food and put a little of that in there (one or the other will work if you don't have both).
Then I have a squirt bottle with old fish grease or bacon grease I put a little on top. I will usually put a mini marshmallow or 2 on top if I feel like it but have caught a pile without it.

 

[Scottf270]

Small cheap cat or dog food with a squirt of liquid smoke. I put the liquid smoke in a pump spray bottle that shuts off at the nozzle. Buy a gallon on Amazon. Beats the mess and smell of other baits.

 

[100percent]

Cereal, cheap store brand bag stuff, lasts a long time and you can broadcast a bit of it around the traps.

Fruit loops are killer!

 

[bowhunthard88]

Black licorice or burnt popcorn!

 

[mtbraun]

Cat food, a couple marshmallows with some liquid vanilla on top.

 

[yfarm]

Peanut butter, sticks well to the tray

 

[TxLite]

Literally any food item in a Duke dogproof. Dinner leftovers, canned chicken, dog food, marshmallows. It hasn’t mattered in my experience.