Keep in mind a coyote has to make a living no matter what day of the year it is.

As long as he eats, travels, and marks he can be caught consistently.


Show Wile E. what he expects to see at that specific location, not what you want to offer him.

Avoid repetition of looks & smells – Blend sets extremely well – Keep human scent to a minimum – Set locations that up your odds – Kill Coyotes


Best of Luck in the coming weeks UT1 !

A huge piece of the coyote puzzle that seems to often take the backseat in the human brain instead of the forefront!

Picked up one today I think I’ve been looking for.

She took the long way around.

A well blended trail set 40 yards from where I got her man almost two weeks ago.




At least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

Sometimes those trail sets are the best ones to use in the right location.

I have been learning the blind set for coyotes the last couple years. Its the way to go on the ones that are wise to lured sets. Little more waiting sometimes than lured sets and naive coyotes and with our rabbit population, a few more non targets but its effective on the remaining ones when you have cleaned out the others.

I’ve been picking at them slowly but surely out there.
Used a couple road kill deer as draw stations as mentioned, but you’ve only got a few days before the vultures find them and go to town.
Had a pipe dream set get run over a couple weeks ago. I pulled the bent trap and pipe, but there must’ve been some residual left in the hole from the pipe. I’ve watched coyote tracks walk past that old set for the past week with traps on either side 30 yards or so. Yesterday, it looked like a bomb crater where that pipe was in the ground from being dug up.
Amazing to me that they will walk past a smell for 2 weeks and then one day decide that it’s time to dig to the center of the earth to find it.
These things make me scratch my head sometimes for sure.

Love me some blind trail sets!

As you described it, maybe the coyotes were put-off by the visual presence of the pipe for those two weeks! Remove pipe and coyotes dig.

Took me awhile to come around to them and snares because we have so many coyotes that are easy to catch in lured sets but they definitely have their place when u run out of easy coyotes to catch.

Ive seen too many sets that have been out for weeks get worked soon after pulling to think its always coincidence. Also tests sets gets worked at twice as high of a rate for me than real sets.

Like has been said, sounds like the pipe (and likely the trap) were detractants in this situation.

I had the misfortune of trapping the last 4 summers in June, July and August in East Texas and I learned a couple of things that you might want to check out in your area as your location/environment is probably very similar to mine.

I walked a few semi dry creek beds and found that’s where my coyotes had been doing a good bit of their hunting. It’s cooler and most of the time shady and they will go from pot hole to pot hole hunting frogs, lizards, crawfish and anything else they can find. As you get into the hottest part of summer I found several carcasses of small raccoons and a couple of possums. One could made a pretty good assumption that as the coyotes hunted the creek beds if they ran across a yearling raccoon or possum that was a good meal for them. Pickings get slim in the heat of summer and coyotes will start predating of things they might not normally hunt. I started putting a few sets in the creek beds and cabled off to trees on the upper bank ( in case we got a big rain) and I started picking up more coyotes that way than I did on my trail sets by far. I would set in pinch point that either I built with logs and brush or I’d use a natural pinch point in between pot holes and put in a mafia blind set. Worked really well. Also if the situation was right I would set a few snares as well.

Also my go to bait when I did use it was liquid mouse musk oil by Jameson’s. I’ve caught a lot of summer coyotes and cats using it on flat sets in the center of ranch roads.

Watch out for those stump tails !! They like those pot holes in those dry creek beds!

Hope this helps you some.