Now that hunting season is done it's time for me to start thinking about trapping a few yotes. This will be the first year doing it so a lot is going to be trial and error for me and I've been studying/researching. I'm sure that everyone has slightly different ways of snaring coyotes but a couple of things have me confused.
I've read on here that some fellas like to try to hide/camo their snares with a little grass or whatnot. So, would the fella in this video have a lot of luck with this setup? Also, it seems to me that there's not much in the way of encouraging a yote to put his head through the snare. Video is 3 minutes long. Your thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_z5IzCJPk
This 10 minute video better represents the amount of snow and type of area that I'll be trapping. I'll be trapping several 6 acre patches of bush in farmland as well as hedgerows and fence lines. I have a couple of deer carcasses to put in the middle of a couple of them for a week once it stops snowing on Tuesday. I'm thinking that I should leave the yote trails as natural as possible rather than walk on them and setup snares in natural funnels. Thoughts on this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZUAZkqMRoY
For areas that I don't have any bait for yet, I'm keeping an eye out for roadkill, would making trails with snowshoes through the small pockets of bush encourage the yotes to use them or should I just focus on established trails that the yotes have used more than once?
I've only ever snared rabbits so any and all thoughts, pointers and tips are appreciated.
