Raccoon Bait Basics

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Start with one gallon of fish (ground or course chopped, bones, skin, and all, NO guts), add to it one pint of glycerin, one pint sodium benzoate, and enough of your choice of fish oil (usually 1/2 pint or so) to make it a slurry of stirrable mix.

This is your base. To the base you can add anything you'd like. I highly recommend the addition of beaver castor, and something sticky (honey, molasses, syrup, ect...) The more things you add the more attractive it will become to raccoons. Below is a list of a few things I KNOW to be attractive ingredients for raccoons, there are other things you can try as well, you're only limited by your imagination and budget:

castor
rat glands
honey
molasses
persimmon
burnt orange peals (credit to Dave Pluger)
liquid smoke
apple essence
spearmint oil
wintergreen oil
catnip oil

Mix in your ingredients VERY well, store it in a bigger bucket with a lid in a cool place for a week or so to let the preservative work it magic, then put the bait in jars. It will set up into a thick sticky paste. Though it is well preserved, I store it in the freezer until season, then it rides in the back of the truck until season's end or until it's gone. Left-over is stored in the freezer again until the next season.

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Is this similar to Red O'Hearns coon bait #2 - ? Can it be squeezed out of a bottle?

thanks

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Dec 18, 2012 10:27:53 GMT -5 @bwurts said:

Is this similar to Red O'Hearns coon bait #2 - ? Can it be squeezed out of a bottle?

thanks

No its a thick sticky chunky paste.