My son and I had a good year this year with the snares . Total of 139 coyotes taken ,lost 16 to eagles and mange. Heres our 2 offerings for sale. 66 in first one and it went really well . Have 55 there now and hoping prices stay good . Kept 2 to tan .

That is called Piling them up. Good job.

Also had some.fun with a trail cam.on a carcass

Good pic!

I thought pterodactyls were extinct???

That’s what you call knocking the snot out of them. Good job.

Congrats.

Good year end pics every year. Congrats!

Way to go guys. That's a lot of hard work in those two pics.

Impressive

Looks like $$$$$$ to me congrats buddy

Great job!

...and they are high plains coyotes.....$$$$$$


Good catch!

Wow, wow , wow!!! Did I say WOW? That is so awesome!! Kudos to you

Thanx for the replies every one .. Ive got one more pic I'd like to post but it comes back saying it is oversize .. Got a buddy working on it for me . It is a lot of work , I guess , I was having too much fun to notice . I did lose 14 #s in the process tho . I just know that 2 months sped by in the wink of an eye . Started Dec 1 and ended about first week of Feb . We run 4 baits on a 75 mile loop , didnt have a day that we didnt pick up at least one coyote . We are very fortunate to have great areas to snare , one new spot in particular is within 400 yds of the Montana border . It gave us 19 coyotes , 4 had mange but the rest were beautys . My best spot surrendered 43 , with a one day haul of 6 . There's guys that catch more than us but I doubt anyone has more fun than us .

Posting this for H380 ..

My new hero! That’s outstanding work. I don’t think there that many in my entire county, lol.

Thanx Rob ,, I owe you .. These are my 10 best headed to the May NAFA sale .

Awesome guys... Congrats on your success..

Great googly moogly. Great season.


Care to share about your bait and snaring set up? Big bait dumps in the bush, then snaring the trails coming in?

Great catch and pics-some real nice fur there.

We use roadkill deer for bait at our sites and tho we rarely run out of bait due to coyotes , we have found that to keep birds from eating your catch the bait has to be freshened every 10 days or so .. Not big amounts either , maybe a couple 5 gallon buckets of pig guts or such like .. something that has a lot of odor and keeps the birds happy. Snares per site varies , anywhere from 15 -30 spread out over an area the size of a football field . We set all on trails and none closer than 30 ft from the bait .. too much chance of catching eagles if much closer . I like to set trails even out as far as 400 yds away , coyotes tend to be less cautious there than the "in tight" ones .Coyotes in my area are some what clostrophobic and dont like the real thick brush patches so I dont waste time setting them . I place my baits out where they are easily seen but not easily accessed if that makes sense. A bait that is easily accessed with getting the coyote caught is easily cleaned out .My best site produced 43 coyotes this year and thats with 28 snares set , only 2 snare spots never caught one .
We use a basic Marty Senneker setup .. 1/16 " 1x19cable , 5 ft snare 5/64 Bridger locks,, reg or mag kill springs and a trigger on them , 265# BADs. . , 5 ft 3/32 ext cable . I like the oversize lock on the small cable , the extra weight closes faster and holds tighter .. in my opinion .
Our bait site arent overly close , closest being 3 miles apart .With the hi price being paid for coyotes now , there are lots of guys that are into the game now and coyotes have become very scarce in daylight hours .. In the 2 months we ran our line we saw only 2 from the road on that 75 mile loop every other day .. thats where the snares really shine , they are working 24/7 .

Thanks for sharing your methods, I set up pretty much the same way. I find it interesting your coyotes don't like tight spaces, ours don't either.

Beautiful 10, again congrats C, well done. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

I’m so jealous!

Awsome Pics !!

Nice!!! Congrats

Very Nice!!!!

Terrific job both of you. The consistent color is a thing of beauty.

Osky

VERY NICE

Thanx Osky, wish the sun had been bright when we took the pics ..some of them really shine . We are fortunate to have good coyotes