Hey anyone used hogs in a bait pile to just lure in bobcats and coyotes and have good luck with them. I have used them before in the past without luck but maybe if I started baiting now with them they would get used to eating hog by season? Ive used deer guts with great luck and they hit the deer fast but can get whole hogs way easier so if they might work that would be handy

You need to open them up .Gut barrels from locker get ate.pig chunks seem to work . They wonxt fight pig skin for their vittles long before they go find something fresher and easier

Yep but I only bait in the late winter. Really cold helps a lot. Like what Bigfoot said. Open them up. I sit in the house and drink coffee and shoot.

That sounds kinda gross cutting open a dead confinement hog but if it helps just have to embrace the suck lol

I have seen a few big wild hogs killed by hunters around here and they dump them off in the back of fields and such. I have not seen one eaten or torn into by anything but buzzards once they are pretty much melted. I know i set some traps around one that was dropped off on a pond dam in the back of a field last year. I had been catching coyotes all around that area. Never caught anything but buzzards and possums and only after it had been there a long time. Maybe the skin is too tough to get into until it rots a good bit or something. However i took a head from a baby wild hog and tossed it down a dirthole and caught a couple coyotes and a bobcat on that set.

Pig liver. Make winter bait with it. Have never ground a whole hog but sounds like a good idea....Here pig here pig.

I'd go with what the coyotes are telling you

Like said above you have to open them up and give them a place to start. I've had whole hogs lay out for weeks and never be touched but if you open them up and expose the soft tender pieces they will definitely go after them and when they are finished with the giblets they will eat the rest of the hog from the inside out. I fed over 30 head to the coyotes last winter and after I got them started on the first couple it was on! Had 100 pounders last 2-3 days. Made for good trapping.

Have most luck with bait stations in deep winter.

Have caught small feral pigs in footholds set for coyotes. Next mornings check had a pig foot left and small intestines stretched down logging road. Coyote tracks everywhere. Caught 2 coyotes same trap next few nights. They heard the squealing and got an easy meal.

Down here everytime you see tracks of a sow with little pigs there are coyote tracks there too...following them around. Bobcats too. These predators down here know what a pig is.

Think big! LOL

Thanks guys I'll have to give hog another shot this year excited to get a big bait goin and see what happens

The worse the weather the better, I don't set until it's been hit on for a while and they have trails showing then snare the narrow spots like a creek bottom, thicker draw or tall grass work the best for me.

Years ago I pulled some hogs way back in the brush for a neighbor The coyotes wouldn't even come close. So I agree you need open them up or get rid of the skin. Everybody is right, the worse the weather and the colder the weather the better it is.

Hog confinement’s around here use wood chips for composting dead pigs of every size. Coyotes will pull a fresh hundred or hundred fifty pound pig out of the compost and eat all but the head and front shoulders on the first night. Wild pigs might have a tougher hide but these coyote here don’t have any trouble with farm raised bacon .

Where there are feral pigs down here all coyote scat has pig hair in it....all coyote scat.