John, I’m planning on making the trip this year. You got room for me? lol!

Lee, yes, I have one table left and you are welcome to it

Les isn’t attending this year, so we had a few spots

See you in August !

John

TTT

Thanks for the bump, Mike

Ok, as time gets closer, we’re getting a few more questions from new attendees that I thought I’d address

First, the cost to attend Coyote Days is $20 per person, but 17 and under is FREE, so bringing a family isn’t going to cost YOU a lot to get in

You’ll get a wristband that signifiers that you paid entrance fee and is good for BOTH days

Trust me, the demos are worth $1000’s, and the $20 is put towards us paying for the 101 things it takes to put this event on.

The Saturday Night Banquet is seperate, and it is $25/ticket, and that is for man, women, child, whatever

We buy steak loins, and they are sliced the night before, and we judge it on how many tickets are sold, give or take of course.

We encourage everyone to take in and enjoy the banquet, but it’s not required by any means!

The banquet is held Saturday evening in the main fairgrounds building, which is now air conditioned and has a good sound system.

We’ll have a guest speaker or two, bucket raffle (20 items) and also draw for the other items we sell raffle tickets for at the Coyote Days desk at entrance of the building we use at south end of fairgrounds

ALL the items raffled will be won by Coyote Days attendees, as that is the only place the tickets will be sold

Supper includes grilled steaks, salad, baked potatoes, etc

After supper will be the fur fashion show, with many garments and fur accessories being modeled. And again, if you have a fur garment you or your lady friend would like to bring and wear in the fur show, by all means, bring it!

After that, we’ll have the auction

Like last year, we’ll have 2 groups of items for the auction

One group will be items designated for the Endowment Fund (Scholarship), and the other group will be items to be auctioned with proceeds going towards helping us offset some of the event’s cost (grounds, motel rooms for demo presenters, etc)

We don’t solicit items for the auction, but if you’d like to bring something to donate to the auction, again feel free to to, and it’ll be appreciated. I’d appreciate it if you make us aware of who donated it, so we can give credit, and also designate if for endowment fund or general auction

So, that addresses the questions that we’ve received lately I think.

Coyote Days is based around the 20 top quality demos, 10 per day, and the Friday night roundtable discussion.

Add on the Camp Cattrax fish fry on Friday night, and some great company for the weekend, and I can’t think of a better place to get ready for this fall, or just to catch up with friends and like minded people

Coyote Days 2026

Aug 14-15

Lusk, WY

Thanks, John

I'm not attending g but a friend is going to be there. He's doing g a demo also.

He said he'd take my skunk quill and see if any one wanted it. I also have several gallons of brain frozen. If any one has a use for them might talk Brandy into packing them also. I clean skulls and saved the brains this season hoping they might be useful to some one. No charge on the brains.

If you have an interest text
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Start the tex with brains

John I'll have an item or 3 to donate to the auction in honor of our good friend Cattrax

See you guys in 6 weeks.

Can't believe its almost here. It's quickly become the highlight of my summer, hanging out with the likes of O.D., Boone, Big John Nolan, some sassy bull fighter from S.D. who always pulls my chain, and of course taking advantage of the Graham family's hospitality. I can already taste the walleye from Steven 49er and crew! It really is a unique opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business.
Looking forward to it!!

Have my hotel booked and looking forward to it.

Ok, one quick update on the Endowment/Scholarship recipients this year

This year, instead of 3, we have 4 worthy recipients

All are children or grandchildren of demo presenters

1 young lady from Wyoming, 1 young lady from Montana, and 2 young men from Montana.

All have been involved in trapping their entire lives, and a very worthy recipients!

I’ll announce names at Coyote Days

Time is flying by, and we are getting a lot of people dropping a line and saying they’ll see us in August!

Coyote Days 2026
Aug 14-15
Lusk WY

Have a great weekend, it’s HOT in Wyoming!

John, it's hot in northern MN as well. Supposed to hit 100 tomorrow 50 70 percent humidity is going down. Still supposed to be 30 40 percent. Any smoke your way? It's been clear here. The Canadians are behaving

I got a couple items to put on the scholarship auction in honor of tom.

4 weeks out.

All roads lead to Lusk

Yep!

I’ll put together the final demo schedule in the next few days, and post it with times and which day the demos are.

We’ve had one demo presenter that had to cancel this year, regrettably, as John Barnum from OR can’t make it this year. John’s great ‘cat demo wil be missed, but we do understand him not being able to make this year.

We’ll miss you John! Next year!

Things are happening, and coming together, we’ve had more people volunteer to help get set up and help run things to make the whole weekend run smooth

I pick up the rifles for the raffles tomorrow, and other items for raffles and auction are coming in daily

We’ll order the steak loins soon, and take care of little things along the way

We’ve had a LOT of inquiries from first time attendees, and it’s looking like this is going to be another great one.

Like Steven says, Aug 14th & 15th, all roads lead to Lusk WY


Coyote Days 2026


See you there