I do remember quite well the running joke about the good old blue bucket…
But my question now goes to the serious side of things.
I’ve been hearing about guys using blue PVC or blue objects as attractions for coyotes…supposedly they can see blue pretty well.

Is anyone here using this technique? Can anyone tell the difference if it’s really true?
Been thinking about trying a few after Christmas.

Blue is harder for other people to see. That would be the only reason I can think of to use blue for yotes.

My opinion is you catch coyotes by their nose not there eyes. Eye appeal is a tricky thing with coyotes, it can cause refusals as easy as attraction. The guy that made pvc popular with coyote trapping has made the point many times he puts the pvc in enough cover the pipe itself cant be seen. There a reason for that. Again my opinion is there's a time and place for eye appeal but I think its a smaller piece of the pie than several other things.
If its just about getting them to see it, hang some sort of flagging above your set they can see movement better than anything.

Apparently blue stands out really well to animals that see in black and white
I heard it explained once, but can't remember the reasoning. That's why you don't want to wear light colored blue jeans while hunting.
I suppose a blue bucket/pipe sticks out well for a coyote; add a little lure and so much the better.

Maybe it’s because they see in the blue/green spectrum.

The same guy who has made pvc pipe popular and hiding it well in the grass also uses Tbones sets for the eye appeal they offer, true story. All that aside, every method works when it works, same as people, hundreds read this post asking about blue pipe, 4 of us "worked the set" so far. I would say trying it on coyotes will tell you more.

One thing I seem to notice about trapping any critter, hard work out catches gimmicks season after season.

If everyone remembers correctly, Zag perfected the pipe set because of the poor trapping conditions found in central NYS. It keeps the sets working in all types of very poor trapping conditions.

He has mentioned that the gray colored PVC seems to break less often than white while pounding into the ground. And yes, the pipe gets driven in far enough to not be exposed.

The bedding of the trap as he does it is the other half of why it works so well.

Nothing to do with blue.

I never tried blue pipe. I tried pipes one year with mixed success.
Maybe I left mine up too high?
In a flat picked bean field the short length of black pipe stuck out nicely . But so did a beached white bone, and so did a peeled fresh beaver stick. Was never sure if it was about the eye appeal in a flat field with little feature, or the bait, or the shot of coyote or fox pee.
I ended up going back to Mr. dobbins trick from his land trapping book just using a simple fire blackened piece of wood as my attractor and bait or lure holder, worked pretty well and was fairly natural.
Jim

Here is how I was using black pipe in picked bean fields. Be sure to collect em back up after the season so as to not litter the field for the landowner.

I tried Gray pvc one season when pipe set was the talk. Why Gray? because I had gray. Wasn't to much of a test because I didn't run many. Did run them where I had caught coyotes in past. Caught a couple coon and opossum no coyotes.
In my situation it didn't seem to work and just as easy to put in stand dirt hole.

Mac