Yes learned that with the chip cams, the one with the deer pic is on a fence post I need to check how solid the post is set and the straps to see if they are tight. It’s next to a fenced food plot the (guys a big deer hunter) so there’s nothing close by to hang a camera but fence posts. The cat one fires too much that’s probably grass or branches moving I’ll trim that up. I did turn up the cat one to see if I get more cat pics now that the storm has passed.

I set these cams ahead of the storm I’ll spend more time on them during the next physical check.

Some new pics that went to my phone that my iPad has not down loaded yet I hate technology! Probably the same yote a half mile down on the same creek.

A good looking yote for that area mange has been a major problem there.

Yep he has a beautiful northern coat light and silvery in color.

Looks like I'll need to put in my Bushnell chip cams in there just to repel the yotes the barrel usually is enough to keep them at bay.

Law, are your barrels just baited or are you using lure as well?

You are going to catch one of them coyote. As the winter lingers they will get more hungry and brave.

Just baited for now I’ll add urine and lure after I can set traps after Christmas.

Now that the storms over they are looking for an easy meal probably they will mess the cubbies later in the season but never caught one or wanted to in my cat set not a great coyote down there. The cameras must of done more to repel yotes then the barrels did. I can put some chip cams in if it continues to be a problem just to keep them away.

Dang yotes are hitting every cubby without the HD chip cams there to running them off like usual and the 14 below temps is probably pushing that behavior. Fresh bait in a steel drum would not be my first choice to catch yotes ever but it could be this year. LOL All 4 cubbies show yote activity they are actually working the cubbies sticking their heads in the barrels pretty freely that’s nuts if I didn’t see it I wouldn’t have believed it.

Cat season opens the 26th so I’d rather not snag a cat yet and have to release it before the seasons here. I should slide in there and snare the coyote trails they are making now to discourage them as much as possible. Will put the chip cams by the cubbies in hopes of running them off also.

I know some are thinking why not just go after the yotes but if you just look closely at the poor quality of the majority of them notice the weak neck hair on them and poor colors but some look great. The whole plan was not to drive the 100 mile round trip check traps a few times a week unless I made a catch. Looks like I’m heading down tomorrow I should have some sweet snare trails to set up with big loops to avoid the cats in the area.

Notice the thin neck and off color on this one the mange was rampant a few years ago, it hit them hard there. They look better in black and white.

Coyotes hammered the one cubby that bait was gone I did find some stomach content near by. The other cubby they scratched the ground in the openings up footprints everywhere but that bait was still there I expected it to be missing.

I put Bushnell chip cams on the 2 cubbies the yotes are messing with, with the hope of repelling them. I’m curious to see if thats what kept them away in past years I though it was the cams and cubbies. If the traps would have been set 3 yotes might have been caught. I’d never expect a yote to work a metal barrel like that a set trap should not bother them I’d say.

2 cams that had unusual high photo counts so I did some trimming on 3 of the 4 and moved the 4th one to a different location closer not like they seem to bother anything so I set them close to see what happens now.

Scouted snare locations before the tracks melted even enhanced some of those spots. I’m thinking I’ll trap it like past years to get the yotes to move on then I’ll depend on the cell cams after I thin out the yotes first.

Cat season opens the 26th I’ll set it up then it looked like a cat checked out a culvert so I will need to do physical checks until I’m down to the 4 cell cameras.

Cat country that wall will cave in its kind intimidating.



Snare trail on the trail to the right of that tree the bank drops off to the left of the tree that's getting a snare for sure.



Upper shelf the cats/yotes love to run.

Get your knife sharp Jerry. You'll be skinning a couple coyotes.

Law, this is fun to follow. It does seem interesting the coyotes aren’t concerned with the barrels, but haven’t they been out for a while? Maybe they’re adjusted to the barrels and they’re hungry enough. You’ve got me thinking I might try barrels next year, and I’ll definitely be doing some pre-baiting in advance.

Hope you get a few coyotes and eventually a cat.

Few of the yotes in that county are worth skinning unfortunately but the landowner is into deer and turkeys everything else needs to go especially coon and yotes. I’ll put in 10-12 snares then do regular check that was not the plan but it is what it is. I’m keeping an eye on the trails they are running with them hitting the baits that help narrow it down.

A better yote for down there.

No more cat pictures yea?

I need to thin out the yotes first I’m thinking I might hit them before Christmas.