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4 for me this morning set a few more snares on tracks in the snow as well seem to be moving well in this cold weather
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7 for me today....was too cold to move snares, but a couple of the old trails are drifted in, so i have a bit of work to do when things get a bit more tolerable.
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Cold weather is helping big time. Nearly 30 coyotes in the last week. Set up four new baits today man was it cold.
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I have to get some snares hung tomorrow because there are hardly any left. Gonna have to suck it up like Gboe. Nice to have tracks in the snow to tell me where to set and to cover any spots that were disturbed. It's getting real fun now. :) |
It looks like I should get some time the next couple weeks to get a little more serious. I went out yesterday with a forum member and freshened up a bait pile. I had one coyote there in one of five snares. I went back this afternoon and added a bunch more snares, there seems to be a decent number of coyotes hitting it so I'm optimistic.
Tomorrow I'll increase the number of snares at my third bait and get it properly set up. I'm hoping to get bait out at a fourth as well. I'll see how my day goes. I'm thinking I'll check everything over the weekend. It was quite cold out there today! |
Only one today at my baits and one more called in . Seems someone is checking my locations from a truck and tho nothing has been touched , only a couple fresh sets of dog tracks . Tells me the coyotes may have been spooked away .
Next year Im not prebaiting like i did this fall . I'll go in and establish a bait and set up immediately . The prebaits got hit hard and cleaned up fast and seems as tho not many have returned . I know lots of guys prebait , whats your thoughts ? |
Been a really weird year for me with what could be the same issue. Seems the coyotes hit the bait hard one night and i catch multiple then nothing for days. Then another hard hit night but nothing in between. Seeing very few single tracks around this winter too, even where i'm not trapping. Three baits out and all are seeing the same thing. Almost like wolves, the pack hits then vanishes lol.
I did pre bait one sight and it took a week to get hit. I then set it and after 4 days of nothing, 3 in one night. now on day 3 since with two day checks and nothing, I'll be checking again tomorrow. The pre baited sight it seems did nothing to gain advantage, it's right in line with everything else I have going. Not worth it IMO may as well catch them the first time in. |
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With the past two warm Novembers the bait does disappear quickly from the birds because they can fly away with it but with no snow on the ground the coyote trails become visible in the grass. Going through a lot of bait at the beginning is a pita but now that the bait is all froze together it lasts a lot longer and I can hang snares on the trails in the snow. I think that the coyotes may be less weary from using those trails before too. In the areas that I snare what it comes down to is spending more time putting up snares or pre-baiting and only putting up snares on the trails. This snow makes life a lot easier that's for sure.....selective snare placement.....in and out in half an hour. :) I've been baiting 3 sites so far and one site is starting to peter out. Anticipating that would happen, I started a new bait site last week. Today, after the snow, I'll re-bait that site and in a few days I'll set snares on the trails. I'll only have to put up the number of snares that are required instead of a whole bunch of them. I don't think that there is a best way to do it and it all depends on where you are snaring so I won't try to convince anyone that my way is best. Everyone should try both ways and see what works best where they are snaring. :) |
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the one area I set east of me has produced 22 yote's in 23 days and 18 off one carcass,and starting to slow down as carcass is pretty much cleaned up,pre baited new spots on Monday went in Wednesday and it was like a herd of elk went through,set 12 snares at first site and 6 at the other as well as a couple of bobcat sets as I seen one the day I was baiting and low and behold it was into bait site,i throw my yote carcasses off to side of bait to draw birds and it worked like magic,bring the birds,brings the yote's,IMO
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If you have a BAD on your snares and it's anchored well, deer shouldn't be a problem I wouldn't think. I've only ever had one deer step in a snare and it never even broke stride before the BAD gave way. Would your beaver concoction work for scent in an area like that? Do the rags act as a visual attraction like what birds do? I wouldn't know what to do in an area like yours. It looks very challenging!
PS. I'd be interested in seeing what your sets look like. It might be something that I'd be interested in trying sometime. |
The family and I did a 2-3 day check on three baits tonight and ended up with 5 so I'm happy with that. The bait I expected to do well at had nothing and the bait I expected nothing at had 4. One mangey.
Not a bad night, cold but no wind and light snow. |
H380 I did a little prebaiting this year simply because I had lots of bait coming in and couldn't start as soon as I wanted. I won't do it again regardless of the circumstances. With the warm weather half a truck load would be gone in days. I feel like I wasted the bait. I always set a few snares when I start a bait. Usually I can pick out some likely spots for a snare and then I add more as needed.
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I did not prebait this year .im snaring a small river bottom property ..set out bait last saturday and set the trails that i remembered them using from last year had to check that sunday because of warm weather picked up a nice female on that day .. weather turned cold so i checked on wednesday picked up 4 more and checked yesterday had 2 real nice colored pups
Which makes 5 females 2 males with 3 pups in that bunch so far ..still have not caught the alpha male which maybe tough now |
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How's everyone doing
The cold spell definitely helped. Picked up 12 this week, so I am very happy with that. A couple of weak ones with just the start of mites, but mostly very nice coyotes.
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Hope your feeling better soon and we can possibly get together again for a day |
Finally got some more snares put out today, I didn't have many left hanging. One bait site had 8 snares and produced 5 coyotes. :sHa_shakeshout: Another site only had 3 snares left and one was caught there. I have a snare wise coyote at my third site. The bugger has been walking right through my snares and knocking them down or pushing them to the side. I'll get him. :)
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Pretty slow for me this year . Last year at this time I had caught 30 coyotes this year only 8 . Seems to me that there's not to many pups around ,7 of those I caught were adults ,1 was a mangy pup . Don't really get to many coyotes with mange around here .last year I threw out 4 outa 40 ,so I am wondering what might be killing of those pups ?
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I don't know if it'll work for you or not but last year I found that lots of moving helped increase my catch. I'd take out 5 or 6 coyotes (locals?) from a bait site and it'd go cold so I moved to a new area. I found that it worked better than waiting for transient coyotes to come through. Good luck. |
I have 2 baits right now and will set up a few more in another big bush that I have been heiring coyotes yapping a lot . Already got permission just the land owner wants me to wait till deeper snow so his dogs won't be very mobile . Sure wouldn't want them to get into the alberta (bad) power snares . Thanks Dave , all a guy can do is keep on trying ,and set more bads .hehe
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