Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/23/19 11:52 AM
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Hi Grandpa. If you do, be sure to leave a lip so if he digs before caught he does not hook the trap with a claw. Cold Hand learned this on my line.
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/23/19 07:25 PM
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WadeRyan
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I hug the hole as close as I can straight back. I started doing it after watching coyotes work lure in the offseason on scent posts and dirt holes on my trail cameras. Their front feet follow right behind their nose in a majority of the pictures I have (which was thousands). If they want what's down the hole at some point there foot is going to be right outside that hole. Never did buy into the offset thing.
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
[Re: Grandpa Trapper]
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08/24/19 09:56 AM
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After many years of observing catches and misses in snow ya can't get it too close and there is no one spot. When coyotes started showing up here I did what all the books said, moved the trap back. Had lots of misses until I put the trap where they wanted to step.
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
[Re: Wright Brothers]
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08/24/19 10:13 AM
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Hi Grandpa. If you do, be sure to leave a lip so if he digs before caught he does not hook the trap with a claw. Cold Hand learned this on my line. I can see that happening.
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
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08/24/19 10:15 AM
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If i use a dirhole the jaw is close and hole is close to vertical.
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
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08/24/19 10:31 AM
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I do believe population density has alot to do with trap placement at a hole. Where the competition is high for prey base,,,, they want in that hole so up against will work. A low population ,,, high prey base, things will change.
Kenneth schoening
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
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08/25/19 08:54 AM
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Michael Morris
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Set as close as I can, had a guy tell me once "O, So you're fox trapping??" told him "Sure am...and I'm tearing up the coyotes" lol
Push yourself to be more than you were
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
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08/25/19 04:25 PM
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JC Connor set's his right up to the edge of the hole. His DVD's explain it very well. I change after watching his DVD and do the same. I started setting right behind the hole after watching his DVD as well. I catch just as many and probably more critters that way and have way fewer traps tripped by deer. Sometimes I'll set a little further back, depending on the set.
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Re: Placing traps close to the bait hole for coyotes
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08/25/19 04:35 PM
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I started setting right behind the hole after watching his DVD as well. I catch just as many and probably more critters that way and have way fewer traps tripped by deer.. Sounds like a nice side benefit of reducing the chance of deer stepping on the pan.
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