I trap coyotes every summer for my cousin. He raises about 6 acres of cantaloupes and watermelons and the coyotes a murder on his watermelons. This is the tenth year, and every year it seems to get harder. I use flat sets and punch holes with only gland lure, and no urine because of the deer. I use multiple brands of gland lure to mix it up, but this year they aren't responding to the set at all. I trap in the fields and around the fields where I find sign of the yotes entering and exiting. I also use blind sets where I can find funnels they regularly walk. So far the sets have been in 4 nights and nothing but they are still coming in a eating melons. Maybe I am just to impatient this time. Its really hard to get their attention with a set when they are fixated on a large field of melons. Anyone got any suggestions for something new to try? I am actually considering calling at dusk dark and shooting.

Try snareing them.

Get a squirt bottle of the most vile stuff you can find. I’ve been using various mixtures of sour milk, horse hoof tea, lump jaw puss, and the black sludge that oozes out of a summertime dead cow.


Make a couple really well blended flat sets with a dash or urine and/or gland (think subtle). Than, squirt that nasty sludge all over the immediate area of the set(s).

Travis Chilson taught me that and it works when the heat is on.


Summertime coyotes are a different beast. Anyone that says otherwise is full of it.

Do you think beaver tail oil will do it?

I’ve found where they have their established scent posts or brought a dog to find them for you and set those. No gland or urine (aside from what the dog marked).

Might.

Only one way to find out!


You're creating a rolling station, so the louder the better. You're appealing to that response and than with the urine and/or gland giving them a focal point within that response to maybe check out.

I've had tremendous response in front of cameras with beaver tail oil in the summer. But much less response in the winter when I am actually trapping. So for summertime coyotes it should work.

But I don't consider beaver tail oil really loud or obnoxious, kind of a pleasant odor to me. Certainly not like the stuff Boone is using (lump jaw puss is a new one, I had never heard of anyone using that for trapping before) but they will roll in it extensively in the summer. So maybe try it on some sets, and something more obnoxious on others. Let them tell you what they prefer.

At least the beaver tail oil will be something new to their noses.