Baiting for Coons

[NoCreek]

I just today put out some bait boxes for coons, something I have never done before, we are in a bad drought here in OK, and I got some pups im trying to get on a lot of coon by winter, so I figured if I always know where the Coons are it would make it that much easier to get the pups going on a lot of coons. Is this a good Idea to hunt the dogs over bait? Does anyone else do this for coon? What baits work best? Thanks.....



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[Hazel Hill Blueticks]

If you have a area near water it will work great. If they have a water source and your supplying food you will draw more in. You can use corn or dog food. Add a little molasses it will draw them in better. A lot of people hunt off feeders to start pups. Heck a lot of competition dogs hunt off feeders to rack up high scores.

[Jason Bass]

I see no problem in that, we use to hunt on several ranches that had dumps and they were always great hot spots for coon even cow carcases seemed to draw them in. So I guess in a way it's the same. Let us know how it works for you.

[skeets]

ive used peanut butter to bring coons in, i took the lid off nailed it to a tree cut the bottom off the peanut butter jar then screwed the jar to the lid. the coons will leave little peanut butter prints up and down the tree lol.

[Hazel Hill Blueticks]

I could see peanut butter getting expensive. Corn and dog food are cheaper. You could even order in some fish oil to help draw them in to your feeder areas. Once they figure out where they are the coon will come back for more.

[tn coon hunter]

i use chocolate, its the best in my opinion, it keeps em comin back for more, it also soaks into the ground and the smell stays for awhile, sometimes i mix it with corn and they like it us as much

[Redneck]

i just made a simple bait today works great you may have most of it in your house to make it corn meal and molasses and yeast .
separate bowl pour water let it get to room temperature then dump the yeast in it the one bowl
then in your next bowl pour your corn meal and molasses in add water to the consistency of mud then after your yeast has started to do its thing combine the two let it sit out side for two -three days and ferment in a container wit ha lid let it breath if not you will blow up your canister you have it in butter containers work great to put it in too ....

then to bait live trap use a tuna can scoop it in to the can set trap and you are set for coons only with this stuff the three traps i set on average sat over night to a full night before i had one .....

[NoCreek]

Thanks for all the info, Since I posted this and put out the bait I have been able to take the dogs within a few hundred yards and send them in there and tree a coon every time, and let me say if I go around 3am not only will they tree one but my walker dog usually catches one on the ground....Good Times....

[kscurhunter]

mix corn and water in a five gallon bucket and sour it it will really bring the coons in but the junk seems to leave it alone thats what i hate about pups and bait is all the trash that comes to it to but the sour corn really seems to bring just coons

[lioncommander]

Just wondering what these bait boxes look like I have used tires with the rim still on and than just cut some 1 inch by 1 inch holes in the side walls before and it works if I could see a bait box I would like to give it a try

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[NoCreek]

Hey Lioncommander

The bait boxes i am using are the same as you explained, Tires with a rim and holes cut in them, they work as great as anything to keep other critters out, I have started adding wheat seed to my corn and it is really working great, the coons love it. My local elevator had a bunch of wheat seed that had rocks in it and had gotten wet and so they just dumped it on the ground by the rail road tracks I was able to get 3 55gal barrels of wheat seed for free. Soaking it in water before I dump it in the tire works well too.

[lioncommander]

Ok cool I have called them bait tires lol when I bread boxes I got thinking it was some thing else lol guess I should have been awake for English class more lol

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[StrawberryMt]

guys be careful about using bait stations for too long cause of two reasons.1) You can make a smart dog lazy.Meaning a smart dog after a few times of going to that spot will not hunt it out they will just run right for the station. 2) Bait stations are a VERY quick way to wipe out a whole area with disease,because of concentrating the population. With those things being said they are a great tool for exposing pups to a few easy coon to start them but usually not gonna get much tracking experience hunting buckets.