Big coyotes like this one make for a not so friendly environment for adults and kids alike.

Notice the gash on the youngster exiting stage right.

This guy is a monster in my book.




Males of this size command respect at the bait. They are usually given a wide birth.

It was a busy night at the buffet up until this Bad Hombre arrived on the scene.

Tejas
Do you ever set kick backs as a flat set?
How would you suggest making the set including wind direction?

You Bet!

As long as there is a good amount of an additional sign in the area that is.

A single set of tracks with a kickback from a coyote just passing through and no other visible sign would probably get a pass. A kickback by itself doesn’t necessarily make for a good location. The amount of sign does.

I usually don’t set the original mark and kickback, although you could if you wanted to. In that case I would cover the same spot and match the attractants left by the coyote.

I normally set close to the kickback with my own calling card.

If a mark is made on the upwind side of a trail or road, make your set just a few yards away parallel to the original. Keep your set at the road’s edge on the upwind side.

If the mark is on the downwind side of the road make your set across from it on the upwind side.

Try to pick a feature like a small tuft of grass or even a single weed that crowds the edge of the road and set it.

That's odd WB. Maybe those Georgia coyotes don’t like "the other white meat".


I’ve yet to see a coyote turn down a fresh hog here.


(Look again if you didn't see four.)



These border buzzards have never met a carcass they didn’t like.

Even three legged coyotes like to dine on swine.

At this bait the coyotes seemed to prefer an old rotten hog over a fresh deer carcass for some reason.

When it came down to scraps they polished off both by the end of the night. You never can tell.

Tejas I like the pics but they ain't. No way I could get close enough to set a trap around that. That would just do me in with the smell . Lol . Anyway when were those pics taken those yote look real good.

What cameras you using to get color pics at night? I know with my cameras (Stealthcam) everything but deer and elk seem to notice them at night, even though they are IR flash. Even deer and elk will come lick them at times, usually shortly after I've checked them so I'm assuming salt residue from my hands.

Too many deer down here for them to feast on those stinking things. Some hogs the buzzards will have cleaned up in 2 days, others will be there until they just completely decompose.

That little bit of stink shouldn’t bother a Cajun.

In the words of Robert Duvall it “smells like………......Victory”!

SK, those photos were taken in early November.

I'm no Cajun but regardless that still wouldn't happen for me. Lol. If you can say. What county are you in? A few years ago I hunted several Ranches in South Texas. Thanks for posting up good info to learn from.

I believe those were Covert cams BC2.

Wannabe the dead pit I was trapping is for domestic pigs. Sorry it took so long , been out west.

No problem. Hope you had a great trip!

Coyote Days is always a great trip .

The Power of Bait

A good many folks probably won’t look much further than the number of coyotes in the photo.They’ll most likely assume there’s a big coyote density and trapping is relatively easy in that area.

If they looked a little closer they might realize that perhaps the magic is not so much in the area; the magic is in the bait. They don’t stop to think that the local population may have already been wiped out, and all of those coyotes are transients. The bait actually brought them there.



Like Mac said, you have to read between the lines. That goes for posts in this thread and on your own trap line.

As some might have guessed, the gist of this whole series of trail cam coyote photos was to showcase the effectiveness of the bait station.

A coyote might prefer certain type bait, but in the end they will eat what is available whether its deer, swine, cattle, sheep, or goat. What you have at hand is what you should use. Keep in mind there is considerably more to this than simply throwing out a carcass and walking off.

For those looking to really reduce coyote numbers, this is one of the best tools you have at your disposal.

If you set it up right you’ll kill more coyotes no matter where you are.

It would be interesting to hear how many other coyote trappers out there have actually used a bait station.

If you have, what kind of results did you see? Was it worth the trouble setting one up on your line?

My hope is that these posts this might prompt a few trappers to give it a try this season.

I believe It is well worth the time and effort.

I picked up a club to trap right before deer season last yr. They have a gut pit right close to camp. When I did get to start in Feb. I think I picked up 9 on the roads leading to it. After that I have rode in the area several times looking for tracks and could only find one set.The gut pile had been depleted by then .It works I am waiting on Feb.now to get back In there.

Bait stations have been my go to strategy to pull coyotes off property that I couldn't access with wheeled vehicles or couldn't get permission------- just get them to walk over to my side or where I could get to. It works wonderfully but I set back off a little-- bait has to be where they are pulled into my access with some room and choke points---- here they are on high alert next to the bait piles, i like to set blind sets, snares and very subtle flat sets on their travel path ----- been doing it this way 8 or 10 yrs. I also like to get it baited up and being hit before I set steel in place.

This is some solid advice from KS Wolfer on how to set up and work a bait station.

Here's something you don’t see every day.

I’ve never run across a club foot like this one before.

Has anyone seen anything similar to this?

What's your guess on what might have happened?