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Have a Coon hanging around my bird feeder and want to try to catch it with my HaveaHeart trap.
What would work best for bait, on the trigger?
Will shoot 'em IF I see 'em in the daylight!
Thanks! Virgil B.
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can of sardines....the cheap stinky ones.....marshmallows are good too as duckcall said.....
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I found that fish, fresh fish would pull them outta the corn fields to my dirt hole sets I made on the perimeter of those fields. Smelt heads from cleaning all the dipped smelt were the best, but a minnow trap will getcha some killer bait in a few minutes if you've got minnows to be caught somewhere near by.
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Thanks for the replys!
Used a chunk of a sausage. Didn't work...got some sardines to try next.
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The Raccoon is precarious little creature...<Grin>
If you didn't mind sacrificing more of what he's come there for... (bird feeder food)
Since it seems he likes it then I'd say put that trap under your feeder stocked with what he is already there for.
As for those sardines (in oil)... Don't open that can completely. Make him work for it by just lifting the top edge here and there so that he has to pry on things. Being that the can is shiny will help too, sometimes. You might do well to also wire that can to the trap so he can't just run off with it without tripping the trigger.
Sleepy Creek #1 coil spring secluded in front of a dirt hole is less intimidating than that big box trap.
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Marshmallow or Peanut Butter
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Used cheap canned cat food or leftovers. Never tried marshmallows, but I'll give that one a shot next time.
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Just some leftovers will get him.
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can of sardines....the cheap stinky ones.....marshmallows are good too as duckcall said..... +1 or some fish scrapes after you fillet them. I use fishing line to tie them to the trigger. Works well for feral cats as well!
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forget the trap, put your pets up, get some gold malrin, and a can of pepsi, toss some cut up hotdogs in, and put it all in a old saucer. you';ll have a dead coon in the morning.
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I just caught one yesterday. He was pretending to be one of the cats at the cat dish. I used tiny marshmellows --- made a little trail to the live trap with a handful on the trap pan. Cats don't eat marshmellows so I don't end up releasing cats every morning.
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Iuse a snickers bar in a live trap we live on my father in laws farm and they have cats so the snickers draws the coons but not the cats it is a quick way to get them out of the sweet corn
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.....or you could hire the coon whisperer. I believe he uses strips of bologna
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Fish flavored cat food works great!
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Purina Cat Chow will pull 'em in from miles away.
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