Good dp bait option? (2024)

Last edited by NorthernTrapperO; 06/23/24 02:04 PM.

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Plain ole corn works wonders as well. Put just enough in to cover the trigger. A $10 bag will last all year or at least 6 months of trapping.

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Anything cheap. Coon trapping, especially with DPs, is all about location, not any special bait.

I will add my catches picked up considerably when I ran two different baits and more than on set per good location. Bait #1 I use is cheap dry cat food from dollar general with a few squirts of liquid smoke. I dump the whole bag in a large plastic container with lid and then add the liquid smoke and put the lid on and shake it up. Make that up a couple months ahead of season to get the liquid smoke really set into the cat food odors.
Bait #2 is fish. Ground or mashed up fish. Freeze it, salt it, whatever, but a spoonful per DP works. Catch carp on summer and grind those up.
Location, location, location. Find the best spots where multiple trails meet or where the travels are funneled all into ont tight spot. Those get two sets and each a different bait, if I add a third trap it’s a 160 or 220 with no bait. Then I move on to next stop and set that. Cover as many good locations as you can and hit them hard.
Jim

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J

Strawberry jello dry mix and marshmallows in a gallon zip lock bag. Put 3 tablespoons of vanilla extract . Shake and let it set over night. Best part it is good little snack while setting

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Last edited by walleyed; 06/23/24 04:52 PM.

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I will share what i used for bait to catch over 2 thousand coon in DP traps. Cheap dog food and brown suger. 2 pounds of brown suger mixed in a 5 gallon bucket of dog food. I would add some butter pecan or carmel essence to the bucket when mixed up. about 2 0z. They go nuts for the brown suger. The marshmellow was put on trigger for something to grab after bait was gone. I also had 2 sweet loud and edible lures that I made that were used on lip of trap.

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Fish,corn grease,cat food, and so on

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Cheap dry cat food and either fish oil, shellfish oil or a homemade sweet smelling oil that I make by the gallon with stuff available at the dollar store

During colder weather, my best bait was fish chunks with glycerin to keep from freezing. Summer/early Fall ADC work, cheap dry cat food with dry, grape jello mix stirred in.

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When my sweet corn is getting close to being ripe, I put out some DP's with a little bit of peanut butter smeared around the inside of the trap. The coons seem to like it better than sweet corn. I leave them out until the last of the corn is harvested.

Randy
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Miniature marshmallows are cheap and always worked well for me. Sprinkle a few around the trap for eye appeal.

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All those work unless you have ants. I can only use cat food a month or maybe two out of the year. They say ants don’t bother them, but when the ants build a mound half way up the DP or cover it, I just don’t think a coon is gonna dip his paws into an ant bed.

J

Problem with fish based is you will catch house cats and grinners. Don't think he will deal with ants where he's at when season is in...

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Anything you have on hand no a science.