Started a week late, it has been two years,snow ruined half or more of my snaring locatios.
I only trapped on five small farms.
I caught 10 female and 5 male coyote, big sow coon and big sow badger
Five of the fifteen coyote had mange, so kept ten.
Third picture she was really mangy
Last two pictures I think those were mangy, and howling female was mangy
I caught 9 female and one male, then four males one day, a mangy female yesterday.

Nice !!

Sure that was mange? Looked like it could be mites. Maybe show one to a vet? Or local bio?

Nice going Tac.
I bet it felt good to get back out there.

Nice work, glad you can get back after em.

Looks good.

Nice catches.Congrats

Way to go!

Yes it's sarcopic mange, no I'm not taking that to a vet , I just toss them away
Mange is a mite

Thanks! I wish we had more coyote, there are a lot of thermal hunters, a dog hunter and the diseases

Thanks everyone, now I want to get out for some spot stalking on snow, we got almost 12" and -14 coming wed night.
I'm probably as good or better at stalking them on snow as trapping, not as many on numbers, but I have a higher than 90% success rate stalking them, it's been four years since I've done it I think

Congratulations on the catches. How do you go about stalking a coyote? Are you picking up a track and staying on it?

I spot from the truck, try not to slow down much so they don't know I've seen them, park out of sight, come in from the side.
If can I'll put the wind coming from them to me.
They can usually hear you crawling, walking at 175 yds, if the wind is quartering to them but not enough they can smell you, then they can hear you up to 400 yards away.
Expose yourself in white outfit only as little as you can
If the ears or head comes up at all don't move until it goes back down.

I've read their body language if they are awake and can tell if they are soon getting up to walk off.
I have crawled nearly a whole half mile to keep from being spotted, shoot laying down only, unless it's close and there's no choice.
They don't normally fall asleep like a red fox

Glad you’re back at it.

Sounds like a hoot! My dad used to fox hunt in Iowa before the coyotes showed up, sounds like your methods are similar to his. I've never caught one bedded where I could see him from any distance, but I'm not looking for them either. Most of the old beds I find are in the thick stuff.

Thanks Bob, I had to remember how to do some stuff, been a while

very nice, thanks for sharing

Very nice to hear. Glad you are back at it!

Good to see you back out on the trapline Kevin.

I shot 78 fox one winter just before the mange wiped the fox out 33-34 years ago.
Then coyote moved in and exploded in population.
After stalking my first couple coyote I quickly realized I had to change my method with coyote.
Fox will fall asleep after,8am, most coyote don't, or they sleep with one ear, one eye open lol
If you bump or miss a fox most don't leave the section, coyote will easily run four miles before stopping.