Anyone ever cage trap a coyote? I’ve read it’s really hard to do. What about making a big pen trap like they do for hogs? I saw the biggest coyote I’ve ever seen today and it was blond. I’ll go back to try and call him but I’d like to get a trap out and I’m Massachusetts you can only use cage traps.

Its not impossible, however, its very rare.

It would be one heck of a challenge. Ideally, you'd be able to start planning and getting some things in place months in advance.

What restrictions do you have on baiting the trap?

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I've had a large cage trap sitting in the same spot for 3 years with a camera on it. I never move it and I wire the doors open when I'm not actively trapping. Coyotes visit it often but have always worked around the outside and acted jumpy and paranoid. Two months ago I had one actually commit and enter the cage but the doors were wired open.

I actually caught one in a live trap this year that was not mangy. It was a young coyote.

No respectable coyote will go in a cagetrap...

My buddy Yancy used to get it done!

The bigger the trap the better, they have to get into the trap far enough that they don't block the door when it closes and back out, I caught 5 in two years in Colorado. Not the best way to catch coyotes but it can be done. Be patient. Scott

Caught 3 In cages 2 in the same season it would be a tough way to make a living.

It can happen...

I've never heard Anyone Say they caught an Adult coyote in a cage.

The Demo I saw at an NTA event with a Man using his dog to mark outside the cage....then inside the cage over several days was a great method. But even he told me it was Time consuming.

This was an adult healthy coyote, only one I have ever caught. handful of pups and sick ones around town. This is the only wild adult in thousands of cage nights.

All 3 I caught were healthy ones.

Once in a while you will find a stupid one, even a blind hop get an acorn one in a while. definataly not productive.

Unless the trap has a reduced magnetic field as that animal goes through the trap and inside the trap it would be very difficult to catch mature coyote I wrote a book about it.

I will give you an example as to how I found out or at least one of the ways. One of the traps that I made when I first set it I caught animal after animal. There was something in the trap every day. Wide variety of animals. It didn’t matter where I said it set it. I saw a red fox Cross the road near my home. I took the same trap but but I change the way the animal was caught. The trap is set for two weeks all I caught was a red fox and a possum. I loaned the trap out to another fella and he had the same luck. I couldn’t figure it out. Then when I had two traps just to like side-by-side I tested them. Trap with the option like I first set Had a low magnetic field. The trap I had changed had a high field over the trigger. Animal was going in but not far enough to fire the trap. I tested more traps and found the identical situation.

Magic bait works here fresh carp chunks.

No Magic Jerry. Done too much testing for it not to be. Just too many experiences that lead to magnetic field variance being responsible.

I remember 42 years ago I bought a no till planter to plant corn on a farm I managed in Ohio. My neighbors all made fun of me doing minimum tillage especially since the farm had a history of Johnson grass. Two years before I had used a planter like it and a new chemical called eradicane to get rid of Johnson grass I had shipped from Alabama. Within 5 years they all were using Eradicane and no till minimum till planters. Now it is the only way to farm. It is even mandated in some areas.

Magnetic fields affect how the animal reacts to the trap. Many factors play in to it mainly how the trap is made, weather, and location North to south. Within 5 years Electromagnetic variance will be a big factor when buying trapping devices and how they are used.

Very interesting! magnetic fields and animal traps... In the ocean it's common to wire a chunk of zinc on to crab pots so the pot isn't "hot" I guess that is if the entire trap is metal all my pots have a plastic coating on the lead in and doors minus a non grounded flipper door and they catch just fine...