Just bought 2 duke dp traps. Never tried to trap before. Are there any suggestions for bait to put in it or setup suggestions. I plan to setup near feeders I have some record book coons on camera that need to stop eating my protein.

Sardines.

That what I usually use, I've used peanut butter and small marshmallows that worked as well.

Ants are gonna cover you up if you use fish this time of year, I you use a fish bait set em right before dark and should be fine, other wise use a sweet concoction of some sort

sardines and a little corn, ants will have it covered up

Froot Loops - Not messy and Coons love them!

Dry dog food, mini marsh-mellows, corn, milo, sardines, fish flavored cat food or aluminum foil in the bottom of the trap. If you have fire ants you might have to bait later in the afternoon closer to dark. I take a cheap 10 cent pack of kool-aid and mix it into a quart of water. I will put just a small portion over the bait if I think it needs more scent. I have also sprayed the fish flavored fish attractant over a dry bait also.

jack mackerel is usually much cheaper than sardines and works as well, can easily catch up to 20 off one can, keep an old screw top plastic peanut butter container and keep your jack mack in it in the back of your truck and it will last for several weeks, another good bait is to buy some fish oil from a trapping supply and pour it over some cheap dry cat food, put it in a plastic container and it will last for months, and for about $12 total you can catch probably over 100 coons using about a spoonful to bait your dp, this is what most of your big Midwest coon trappers use that catch 500-1000 during trapping season, a lot of times up to 100/night

Paint Em white and put them on a trail or near water.fill with dry dog food and start catching tgem. Oh and don't forget to anchor em.

We buy a lot of floating catfish food, and I noticed that every evening the coons cleaned up any that was still on the dock. So I tried it in the coon trap. Worked great. The coons love that stuff, and since I buy it in 50 pound bags, it'll last a while. And dry cat food also works great. That's what I used when we lived in suburban Houston. The coons would come into the garage through the cat door and eat the food and often chew up my cats. So I got a trap. They loved that cat food. Caught my cat one time too. He looked totally embarrassed, I swear.

I take a large marshmallow and drizzle the juice of a can of vienna sausages or sardines over it after it is in the trap.

Coons hit it pretty fast after that!

Russ

Reeses cocoa puffs, poor a little beer (or any other liquid, but for some reason I always seem to have beer on me when I set them) to soften it up and dispense more smell. No Joke.

Have had more luck with them than any kind of fish or Marsh mellows.

We've used the spare chicken fat off of the thighs when grilling at the ranch, worked like a charm and had four the next morning.

Simple and works fine for me.

if they're coming for protein, bait 'em with protein.

Get the big marshmellows and be sure to wedge real well under the lever... Marshmellows alone will get the job done..

LMBO. That is funny.

They also like Sonic tater-tots.

Yup, it doesn't get much more simple than that. If they are at a corn feeder, we use corn, and catch them all of the time. Same for the protein feeders. We have caught 100s of them (lost count around 186) and we never had to go buy anything else.
Also on the back porch, where they come to the cat food, we put cat food in the trap.
It would seem to me that if they were raiding your pantry for the sardines that some would bate them with corn. That is when I would use sardines.