No Profanity *** No Flaming *** No Advertising *** No Anti Trappers ***NO POLITICS
No Non-Target Catches *** No Links to Anti-trapping Sites *** No Avoiding Profanity Filter


Home~Trap Talk~ADC Forum~Trap Shed~Wilderness Trapping~International Trappers~Fur Handling

Auction Forum~Trapper Tips~Links~Gallery~Basic Sets~Convention Calendar~Chat~ Trap Collecting Forum

Trapper's Humor~Strictly Trapping~Fur Buyers Directory~Mugshots~Fur Sale Directory~Wildcrafting~The Pen and Quill

Trapper's Tales~Words From The Past~Legends~Archives~Kids Forum~Lure Formulators Forum~ Fermenter's Forum


~~~ Dobbins' Products Catalog ~~~


Minnesota Trapline Products
Please support our sponsor for the Trappers Talk Page - Minnesota Trapline Products


Print Thread
Hop To
Basic winter yote sets #6406428
12/22/18 11:25 PM
12/22/18 11:25 PM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
C
Cameron B. Offline OP
trapper
Cameron B.  Offline OP
trapper
C

Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
I was wondering if I could get some tips and different ideas for coyote sets. I am new to trapping and I live in northern MN. I have over 1,000 acres of private, wooded and agriculture land available to trap. just wondering if someone could give me some advice.

Last edited by Cameron B.; 12/22/18 11:26 PM.
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6406479
12/23/18 12:22 AM
12/23/18 12:22 AM
Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 3,141
Michigan
D
Ditchdiver Offline
trapper
Ditchdiver  Offline
trapper
D

Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 3,141
Michigan
Flat sets are your friend. Or hay mound sets, if you don't want to dig a trap bed.


When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6406482
12/23/18 12:24 AM
12/23/18 12:24 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770
N.W. Iowa
T
Tactical.20 Offline
trapper
Tactical.20  Offline
trapper
T

Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,770
N.W. Iowa
Look for where he lifts his leg on object, put trap where it's foot went, lay a half inch, inch thick piece of drift crust top over the trap

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6406505
12/23/18 12:53 AM
12/23/18 12:53 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
The 'peel out' set. Take off aggresively with your truck. Make your set where the tire started spinning. Position this to encourage the coyote to use your wheel track as it approaches your set.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6406692
12/23/18 11:03 AM
12/23/18 11:03 AM
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 183
NE North Dakota
N
Nodak63 Offline
trapper
Nodak63  Offline
trapper
N

Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 183
NE North Dakota
AJE, I like that idea. They always run my wheel tracks but setting a snare is tough in that scenario. Do you make it a blind set then or just make a normal dirt hole or flat set in the tracks?

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Nodak63] #6406808
12/23/18 01:09 PM
12/23/18 01:09 PM
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,794
100 Mile House, BC Can
bctomcat Offline
trapper
bctomcat  Offline
trapper

Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,794
100 Mile House, BC Can
If legal in your area set up a bait station with snares. Baits in the open, will out produced baits in thick cover. The best sites are in the open and ringed by heavy cover to hang snares in. Coyotes want to see, both approaching and while they're on it, if there’s danger from other predators. Thus all you basically need, for the ideal station, is an opening large enough for “large birds of prey” to land directly into, rather than walking in on trails with snares, and coyotes have the protective cover at and going to the bait.


The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.






Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6406816
12/23/18 01:13 PM
12/23/18 01:13 PM
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 28,715
Eastern Shore of Maryland
HobbieTrapper Offline
"Chippendale Trapper"
HobbieTrapper  Offline
"Chippendale Trapper"

Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 28,715
Eastern Shore of Maryland
Originally Posted by Cameron B.
I was wondering if I could get some tips and different ideas for coyote sets. I am new to trapping and I live in northern MN. I have over 1,000 acres of private, wooded and agriculture land available to trap. just wondering if someone could give me some advice.


Find the one acre where they all pass through at one time or another and set that. There are probably 9 or 10 of them on a 1000 acres.


-Goofy-
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6407237
12/23/18 10:04 PM
12/23/18 10:04 PM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
C
Cameron B. Offline OP
trapper
Cameron B.  Offline OP
trapper
C

Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
Thanks for the advice. There is over 1,500 acres of state land but I really don't like to trap it. There is a lot of swamp in my area and we have been getting a lot of fresh snow. I really need to get some sets in because I only have a week of Christmas break and I start basketball when school starts again. I am running out of time. I know its a tough situation and there are not very many good options but I will take any help I can get.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: bctomcat] #6407241
12/23/18 10:07 PM
12/23/18 10:07 PM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
C
Cameron B. Offline OP
trapper
Cameron B.  Offline OP
trapper
C

Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
Everyone dumps deer carcasses in the ditch around my house and I have a lot of chickens available so I will try that. I don't really know what I am doing so I think it would be great to get animals moving in the area.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6407292
12/23/18 10:59 PM
12/23/18 10:59 PM
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 290
SW Pennsylvania
M
mauser06 Offline
trapper
mauser06  Offline
trapper
M

Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 290
SW Pennsylvania
Biggest tip I have is set traps where the animals are moving.



It took me a while to figure that out. I'd make a big showy set...cover it in stinky lures and baits. They could see it from hundreds of yards away ..they could smell it in the next county. Sit back and wait. Ha. That didn't work well.

I started scouting. Tracks in snow are huge. Follow tracks. Learn their habits and movements. Like was said, look for those areas where they pass through regularly. Where they ALL pass through regularly. Those are the places to make 2-3-4 sets.

I learned that a couple good sets in 1 good location outproduce bunches of sets in random locations.


Location is key. The set and the bait and lure etc...not so much. A stick in the ground and a trap 10" from it where they regularly travel will out produce a fancy set with all kinda lures and baits in a poor location.



Keep the sets basic. Learn to bed a trap. Learn how to keep a trap from freezing. Get a couple lures and a bait or 2. Make some basic dirt holes or flat sets. Hay sets are super easy and I've taken several coyotes from them.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: mauser06] #6407328
12/23/18 11:39 PM
12/23/18 11:39 PM
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
D
DHH Offline
trapper
DHH  Offline
trapper
D

Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
I'm familiar with the Bagley area . And that country has a lot of funnels for the animals to move through - lakes,sloughs, major highways, railroad,cricks and fences . Stop and look at where you are planning on trapping and look for the pinch points that animals would follow to get around undetected and you should find sign to set on


I'd Rather Try And Fail Then Not Try And Succeed
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: DHH] #6407620
12/24/18 11:02 AM
12/24/18 11:02 AM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
C
Cameron B. Offline OP
trapper
Cameron B.  Offline OP
trapper
C

Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
Do you know anyone from Bagley?

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6407941
12/24/18 05:07 PM
12/24/18 05:07 PM
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
D
DHH Offline
trapper
DHH  Offline
trapper
D

Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
Yes . Quite a few


I'd Rather Try And Fail Then Not Try And Succeed
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: DHH] #6407956
12/24/18 05:37 PM
12/24/18 05:37 PM
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
D
DHH Offline
trapper
DHH  Offline
trapper
D

Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 255
N MN
I'm 40 miles from Bagley . If you want to talk shop my door is always open . Can show you different types of sets and gear that usually work in this country . Or could put you in contact with some good guys that live around that area . Send me a PM if interested


I'd Rather Try And Fail Then Not Try And Succeed
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: bctomcat] #6408843
12/25/18 09:20 PM
12/25/18 09:20 PM
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
C
Cameron B. Offline OP
trapper
Cameron B.  Offline OP
trapper
C

Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 8
Bagley, Minnesota
I got a road kill permit and started a bait station. I am going to see if there are any results in a few days. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Nodak63] #6415151
01/01/19 08:46 AM
01/01/19 08:46 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
Originally Posted by Nodak63
AJE, I like that idea. They always run my wheel tracks but setting a snare is tough in that scenario. Do you make it a blind set then or just make a normal dirt hole or flat set in the tracks?

More of a normal dirt hole mostly.

Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6415159
01/01/19 09:00 AM
01/01/19 09:00 AM
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,312
Firth, Nebraska
jabNE Offline
trapper
jabNE  Offline
trapper

Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,312
Firth, Nebraska
I trap a lot of crappy ground that is next to "good" ground. I like weedy ditches, fencerows, edges between two different types of picked crop fields, etc. for natural travel ways. Then I make sets at those locations. Can't beat a long running fencerow or mowed grassy waterway up the middle of field.
Here in late season the ground is like a solid frozen rock and its impossible to dig a decent dirthole. I chip out a bed as best I can, and can usually still drive rebar stakes in. Once you get them pounded in several inches they go in easier rest of the way.
For late season sets I use a lot of post or flat sets if I can't dig dirtholes. Even a small dirthole made by driving in a rebar stake and removing it works. Make 2 or three rebar stake holes and bait those. In picked bean fields you can kick a pile of bean chaffe up and put bait under that on one side guarded by the trap in front of the bait. The chaffe piles are pretty normal in a picked bean field anyway so you can set an existing one this way or make your own. Mouse-based baits and a good gland lure work great. If the bait doesn't work add a shot of pee or other gland lure later and they seem to work again.
I have used a single bent over corn stock too with trap bedded in front of it and a good gland or food lure in end of the stalk works great on late season coyotes here.
Flat sets can be made with anything, small stack of corn stalks, bean chaffe pile, clump of weeds, couple of stacked cow pies, a couple dirt clods, you name it. food or lure work for attractors on or under the flat set item.
Post sets work great in late season, they get pretty territorial as you get closer to mating season. Drive a rebar stake into frozen ground, pull the stake, then push in a stick or whatever for the post into that pilot hole. I use 1" thin sticks and I usually have a bucket of cut ones dried in my shed that also were fire blackened in summer fire pit. those are about 1' to 2' long. drive one of those in the pilot hole, add a splash of coyote or fox pee, and instant post set that really stands out on snow or in open ground next to a fencerow or mowed hayfield or grassy waterway.
You have to get a little creative in late season and be patient with your sets. good waxed dirt will keep traps firing. set on sign, always set on sign. if you have snow you will have tracks and other sign to set on. Have fun!
Jim


Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6415211
01/01/19 09:59 AM
01/01/19 09:59 AM
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 187
Bison, South Dakota
D
Dustin_Drews Offline
trapper
Dustin_Drews  Offline
trapper
D

Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 187
Bison, South Dakota
Learn the ways of cable! There is a time for everything and now is the time for snares. Hope it’s legal in your area!
God Bless
Dustin


You got one shot at life, where are your sites aimed today?
Re: Basic winter yote sets [Re: Cameron B.] #6415538
01/01/19 03:49 PM
01/01/19 03:49 PM
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,751
Central, SD
Law Dog Offline
trapper
Law Dog  Offline
trapper

Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,751
Central, SD
Originally Posted by Cameron B.
I got a road kill permit and started a bait station. I am going to see if there are any results in a few days. Thanks for the tip.



1st yote I ever caught was coming/going from a deer carcass that fell into a trout stream in the UP (2 feet wide and 4 feet deep stream) I found a yote trail going next to a log and set a #3 LS under the track from the side.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread