Bait
When I used to snare coyotes, the bait was to attract them so it didn`t matter what the bait was. On a fresh snow fall watch the tracks close to the bait. The tracks are 6-8 inches apart, that means he is slow and very careful and checking every thing out, making him very hard to catch. If you back track him 100 yds you will find the tracks 12 inches apart which means he
is traveling and his mind is probably on the sounds of the magpies up ahead
and this makes him much easier to catch. You can catch coyotes 1/2 mile or
more from the bait, because of where the bait is. You could tie the bait 10ft
up in a tree and still catch coyotes off that bait, not saying thats good but it would work. Catching the pups is easy, which will happen close to the bait
but the fur is not worth same as mature harder to catch adults. A feedlot even with no dead animals is a good bait and you can catch coyotes a mile away because of where the feedlot is. I have pictures of one winter where
I put 120 coyotes on the sales, I don`t know how to post the pictures
Took me a few years to learn all their habits but after that it was easy, I
probably have forgot a lot by now, it was more than 20 years ago.
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