How's everyone doing with Coyotes?

[H380]

Originally Posted by shakeyleg02

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

This ^^^^, is my prebait reasoning as well . my spots have all been used before and I know the kill trails that worked last year . First bunch this year certainly got well fed , just need em to show up again . Good job Rob , keep at em .

[trigger7mm]

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.

[shakeyleg02]

Originally Posted by H380

This ^^^^, is my prebait reasoning as well . my spots have all been used before and I know the kill trails that worked last year . First bunch this year certainly got well fed , just need em to show up again . Good job Rob , keep at em .

Thanx buddy will set a new property this morning when i can get motivated to go out into the arctic air lol
Hope your feeling better soon and we can possibly get together again for a day

[HunterDave]

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. 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.

[Gboe8]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

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. 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.

Good work Dave. Just finished up making another 100 snares tonight! And I put out a bunch more On the weekend can't wait till wed to check snares! Have about 200 out and would like to get another 50-60 up on wed.

[gpbear]

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 ?

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by gpbear

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 ?

It sounds like what I went through last year. Around 80 coyotes caught and less than ten were pups. Out of them only 2 or 3 made it to auction.....the rest were sick/mange. This year has turned around 100%. I'll guess at about two pups for every adult, and only one with mange.

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.

[gpbear]

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