Tejas,

You are right. I have never had huge kill piles like that or coyote concentrations to support catches like that. Even where I have old, long used kill piles, I don’t have the numbers of coyotes. They’re productive, with occasional doubles and the rare triple. My best ever was six within sight of each other. And those were all snares.

But it would be exciting to roll up on a dozen coyotes all tied up.

Thanks, I'll mix it up & try it when the snow & wind stop

Lets go back to HABITAT (Food, Cover, Water and how it occurs on the landscape). We have many cattle feedlots here and all predators will take advantage of that easy Food item when they can. Here the majority a coyotes I catch close (w/i 1-2 miles) of a feedlot are riddled with mange. This is an easy place to satisfy that Food component so when extra calorie intake is needed they don't go far from the table. It is not only coyotes either that are there. I get multiple badger catches by the feedlots also, and my friend who worked at one (close to the river with lots of den trees) in the 90's told me he fed cattle in the bunks (3000-4000 head) one morning and counted 54 coons eating alongside the steers in multiple pens. So here the Food, Cover, and Water occurred on the landscape in tremendous balance. Your coyote man (and others) have been quietly removing predators from spots like this for years. It really loses a lot of "luster" when you aren't in a prairie or woodland background and someone sets the stage for you but it comes to light as we, as a society, move to a more mechanized food production country. Not and issue with me just take into account the Habitat and landscape that someone is operating in to balance where YOU are harvesting wildlife. Conditions just might be a little different and you may not be less of an "expert" than you think. My experience. ................the mike