A big, good fur male, on my new spot
Hopefully I'll see more activity with the temps going up after midnight
Either him or another coyote just missed the pan on a flat set about 20 feet away

Nice catch, fur looks great

Yup he's a decent color for Iowa, Large, and has long fur, a few have short fur

Nice !!

Thanks

Nice

I stretched another 53" coyote, 64" to ankle
Couple nights ago
I guess he didn't like my shiney new name tag! Plain ruined it

Congrats on #70! Years ago I used those soft zinc tags you "wrote" on with a ballpoint pen. No ink came out, but they just pushed your name into the metal. Worked fairly well. I caught a coyote in a flat set using two traps. After I skint the beast I cut open his stomach to see what he'd been eating, sort of like a guy does when he fillets a big fish.......found two munched zinc tags....one off each trap. Next a.m. I checked the traps at that flat set. Yep. No tags found on them.

Keep stacking them dogs.

Once read a story, out of state trapper caught coyote or fox, game Warden was going to write him up, so the trapper sifted the catch circle dirt, found his damaged tag!

Thanks guys! Hoping to make eighty it's slow, and I'm cut back on farms

Excellent job

Nice dog!!

He was nice, I found he had three healed up pass through wounds below the bung hole, probably large pellets

But, you folks don't have any snow yet. I can deal with frozen ground, but sleet on top of snow is no fun.

Good work tactical, hanging loops is a great tool to have.

We did get snow it mostly melted a couple weeks ago, it was 6-8" I lost many snaring locations, had a few traps freeze up even with coal shale bedding, the year I got 74 I was fighting more snow
One morning on my first farm my knee popped, I had to trap from my pickup wearing a leg brace and using crutches, my Dr and my wife told me I would have to quit trapping but I wouldn't even consider it

That is a very good catch.

Thanks!
I was pretty excited to think I would average 30$, looks like I won't come close to that.
Still it's good to control coyote numbers!