I’m new to trapping coyotes and I have a question about burning a place out?? I have 40 acres of timber to trap but I’m concerned about too much pressure coming in and out checking traps everyday. Does that effect the coyotes like it does deer. I know you can over hunt deer on 40 acres! Does anyone have any advice concerning this??

Yep...the locals will become aware that something's up on that 40 acres....if you dont catch them first. But, the midwest has lots of coyotes and they're mating now. Likely will have coyote traffic somewhere on that property....you just have to figure out where that location is.

If you would deposit a beaver carcass, or road killed deer each time you came into the place the coyotes would get used to your visits and anxiously await your return!!!!! Its all about Food, Cover, and Water................the mike

If at all possible set where u can check from the main road with binoculars if needed. Make sets and resist the urge to walk up to them every day.

I agree with Yes sir. In and out and check from a distance.

I snared an area that was smaller than that last year. I brought butchered deer carcasses in there every week after our deer season. After a couple of weeks the coyotes really started to use the area. I was lucky to take eight coyotes there in a couple of months time. There were still coyotes coming in there when the snow started to melt in the spring.

Just start setting some proven sets and don't over worry it. Stealth surely helps but I catch coyotes within a100 yds or close of my house. Places I walk by a lot. They're hunting at nocturnally for the most part.

PF brings up a valid point. What is normal human activity for that spot. I trap spots were if a human gets out and actually walks there more than once every couple of years I'd be surprised. Set a trap there and walk up within 20 feet every day for 4 or 5 days and it will definitely have an affect on the coyotes. Or at least based of experience trapping and putting out test set year around. Most of my test sets now are on the edge of limited traveled roads and I can get away with a little more human activity there. But I've learned if I make a test set off the road a 100 yds or so it will usually go dead(coyotes will still be there but will be hesitant to work any test lure or bait)after ive walked in there 4 or 5 times. Just my experience. Coyotes will notice activity that's not normal and based off how spooky, cautious, sensitive or whatever you call it they have a reaction to it.

This is a great tactic for not only remaining away from sets but for saving gas.

And time

Fact^^^^

If you’re running 200-400 miles of trapline, every minute counts.

I'm curios YS. Do you find you better success in more remote areas that see less human/trapping pressure or not?

First of all just to be clear I'm not super remote here. All our coyotes here have houses or farmsteads in their territories so they all are around humans to a degree. But there is a lot of fields and pastures that people just rarely walk. You know 3 or 4 times a year a farmer maybe out there in his tractor or rancher may be out there checking their cattle but never get off equipment or out of pickup. We don't have much trapping around here. The couple of other trappers I know of all stick close to home and don't cover much country. I'd say most coyotes around here never see a trap set. But everyone driving in the country carries a rifle and shots at every coyote they see and we have a lot of open country in places here. They also get ran with ATVs and coyote dogs. Everyone that buys a hunting license has an electric caller and TRIES to call them. I'd be surprised if very many coyotes make it to their first birthday without being shot at. My point being all our coyotes are spooky, cautious or dead. To answer your question directly I don't see much difference in catching in the middle of a big pasture were no one goes or a field right behind a house as long as I'm not leaving more human scent than what is normal for that area on a regular basis.

I am only trapping a small area on the farm and attached a couple maps. This is the 10th year I have trapped the same spot and have caught 95 coyotes several red foxes and the most in a year was 11 but 2 or 3 are more common, 3 grays, 5 bobcats. I have put traps in other spots in that field, but these are the only ones that seem to produce. They are double sets and there are 4 blind sets in that tree island, and they have caught 2 reds so far. Most years I set the end of November and run until Feb 28. This year has been too busy and set on January 4th and have caught 4 coyotes including a black and 3 red foxes. I was running snares in the fence by that new house the first 3 years and no footholds but since they built, I have just been running footholds. Thye have a couple kids running around. I plan on two more sets in the back corner this week and is the best bobcat spot. Most years I don't put anything in the tree island unless it is going to be really cold or toward the end but decided to try it different this year. Coyotes are running around in people's yards here and smell so many dogs and cows and people that i do not think they are as keen into scent like they would be in a more natural area. Coyotes are crossing under the fence 50 yards from that house. I usually run a half dozen dog proofs and get 5 to 8 coons but do not think I will set any this year. The first 20 days of Feb seem slow and I may pull them this year and put back out for the last 10 days and that always seems to be good for 2 or 3 coyotes every year and

would probably be after the breeding season. If you have a place you can run by and check easily you can pick up animals all season. Biggest problem here is a never-ending supply of possums which mess up a lot of sets. One year I was keeping up and was over 30. I set mostly 650 buy the wooded areas this year just to try to the possums down.

Hey mikehunterman, could you send 4 or 5 five of those spots up here to me, and i will send you 1 BIG CORNFIELD........................... the mike