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