October Coyote Job pics...

About 20 miles from Florida line. 2 days in on a 14 day job..

For your viewing pleasure...

Nice!!
Paid contact or just because?

Good job,nice country.

Nice! Is that dirt as sweet as it looks?

Savell would be proud. lol

... bear down on em Swamp

Paid..

Don't do any "just because" trapping anymore....

Some pretty pineywoods cattle pastures. Beautiful representation of fire managed southern pine forest.

... get out of here and quit messin this mans post up .., you’d likely be wading around in that water looking for beaver like a Honduran lookin for El Paso if you was there lol

The clay hills are hard as concrete. Have already broke 2 homemade pogo drivers....uugghh!

Sandy spots are OK.

... hey Mr Swamp... how do you like getting out on those sugar sand looking spots only to find clay 3 inches down lol

Don't get many jobs this time of year but owners have seen coyotes recently on trail cams during daytime and dont like that as they deer hunt a little too. Also, several hundred head of cattle here...but they have them pastured up on one end of property due to logging operations underway...thank goodness....can't trap in them dang cows. But they left a bunch of donkeys in the wooded pastures...about 4 or 5 traps a day are stomped and crapped on...

That is EXACTLY what I'm encountering here. My last pogo driver will likely be destroyed tommorrow. But I only have a few more gaps to set then it just trap checking mostly.

Surprised the donkeys don’t keep the coyotes at bay.
Maybe it’s mules I’m thinking of. They keep mules I guess in the pastures with the horses on the plantations and NOTHING gets in the pastures. They pull dead deer out on the regular. Heck I won’t even go out there. My son said it took a while before they would let him inside the fence, lol.

Owners put a couple donkeys in with the cattle for "protection "....and they reproduced. There are about 6 or 7 donkeys now. They want them gone, but says no market.

This place is 4000 acres divided into several large fenced pastures, so the donkeys have a large roaming area, but their tracks are all over the property. They run from my SxS...

Log truck drivers are having to open and closes gates when entering and exiting property because of those donkeys....they don't like that...lol

Have you tried wolf fang type anchors Patrick?
Pogos are a nogo here for dirt trapping when it’s dry or froze.

Excellent job, cool pics

Haven't tried em yet, but was just looking on-line at the PCS Trapping Supply version that's 7 ga thick. $39.95 per hundred ends. At that price, I think I can make them cheaper and faster than 2" washers and jhooks.

And I'm sure they will drive easier and truer. I cut and leave so it's still cost efficient.

Do you know anywhere to get them cheaper than $39.95/100?

I need at least 300 to 400 ends b4 January. Have 4 predator jobs lined up starting in early Jan thru Feb. Gotta get a bunch made.

... Swamp... I’ve never ran the pogo set up... but do run the super stakes on chain..a quick pilot hole with a smaller smooth rod and the super stakes go in fairly easy in clay ... takes an auger to get them out though

... thinking drags hid under a trash mound set in clay anymore though lol

I have to deal with bears on some of the locations....what a ride they will give a good drag.

My hands/wrists and back says that I'm not allowed to pull/dig up/auger out stakes anymore....I cut cable. Pitch trap into SxS and go...

I ran SSs with chain on all my traps for years. It is a good system if you can/willing to retrieve your stakes.

... ol boy down the road got a picture of a bear on his deer paparazzi camera... I might end up dealing with that here too at some point... sightings becoming more common around here

If I can find chain, I’ll have drags for next Summer! Seems our Winters are wet the past few years, don’t have to worry about anything frozen, lol. It’s like now when we go through our dry spell that the ground is like cement that the drags would really come into play in those areas you literally can’t drive an anchor in or even hope to get one up if you do.

A good coyote-sized drag like FT sells with 10 feet of American made #3 chain attached to a Bridger and then pinched onto the toe of a 150 lb yearling bear will be carried for a ride or a climb. Makes for a long delay in trap checking that day....

Donkeys vary in ability and aggression. I've got a cousin that has a small cattle operation and he tells me that you got to go through a few to find a good one but a good one will kill anything canine and the really rough ones are a danger to cattle and anything that moves.

... they say they’re young males roaming west ... I’d be fine without having to deal with them..

... glad your getting paid to keep coyotes off that place... now you ought to pay me a little for keeping that dang Jtrap out of your post lol

I can pick wolf fangs up at conventions for $32 to $35 a hundred Patrick.
Sometimes get them real cheap from individuals selling out.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled.

Please do. I'd really appreciate it. Are you attending any conventions b4 I come up hunting???

You sure ran him off....he didnt even look back.....

Yessir ... just like a Honduran that made it to El Paso

No buddy.
Convention season is over for us.

Swamp Wolf. Was wandering if this property was close to you are do you travel and how much do charge for doing the job.

25 miles one way. $2500 for 14 days...

Some jobs I offer 10 days for $2000....which is usually sufficient if I've trapped it b4....or the landowner wants the extra effort...

Bcat was released...season not open yet and property doesn't have a furbearer control permit. But, the little gal was not happy with Patrick.


Here's that group of trap stomping Jerusalem Cruisers.

If anyone has any Wolf Fang-type ends for sale...let me know....

Yeah...I know I should have posted that on Trap Shed, but It's a long shot...

I'm about to order some so.....

SW are you pre drilling before driving your stakes? I picked up a pack of auger bit earlier in the summer and in tough areas I have been pre drilling either a 3/4 or 7/8s and it does help alot.

I may have to start pre-drilling, but I dont want to...just takes more time at a set. I even mix my lure with my bait to save time.....lol

Hey swamp great pics. im the same way im not pulling stakes anymore for the same reasons. but since we don't have bears I'm going to try drags this year on my "piddle" trapline. ITs so dry up here right now this red clay and my back aint going to happen unless we get a lot of rain before season. Glad to see youre enjoying life even more now!

JBR

... keep on em Swamp... I checked in with a huntin club I trapped last year today because of your post .. satisfied customer lol

Swamp, what s your brand of trap and size you are running? What kind of sets? Flat sets, dirt holes? Really enjoying your pictures!! Good stuff, keep them coming!

As always, thanks for sharing! Love to see those coyotes chained down. I set 4 traps this afternoon and the ground was like concrete on 3/4. Couldn’t dig a dirt hole. Sure wished I had something different for digging the trap beds and am just guessing I’ll be leaving the stakes on these unless I can borrow a backhoe

im not a honda! I own a honda though, what's left of it after going on a feral hog killing frenzy all summer.

He should be paying me to be on his post, not everyday you have a bonifide celebrity show up on your post!

And reading all this whinning and complaining about washer's and bears and drags and and and im wondering if none of you nuts ever heard of a thing called REBAR?

I know it's not cool or in style anymore but crossing them sucker's has served me well for 40 years.

... now you’re just being combative...I apologize for him Swamplol

im too broke down to do combat with anyone at the moment, right foot rotting off, got a shot in the left elbow today and trying to survive on cardboard and water cause i got more sugar in me than a south alabam whiskey still.

Good to hear from you Brent!

I like satisfied customers. They call back...

Those are Bridger 2 dogless.

I have set both dirtholes and flats sets. The DHs are dug with a 2" auger. Some of the flat sets are similar to those SteelTraps makes using the pipe as a bait/lure holder. Other flat sets I used what caught my eye at the location...a pine cone, a piece of wood, a dried cow turd....as a scent holder.

Got 11 more days here...I'll try to post picks...if I catch anything else....lol

I've had to get real selective where I dig....dang! ......the dirt is hard here too.

How much do I owe ya...lol

You always welcome on any of my posts...

I got rid of all my 24" rebar. Ha e a bunch of 20" that would work and hold, but I am spoiled on the cut and run of cable on pull day. My ol hands md wrists can't take that extra hammering, twisting, and pulling anymore.

You too young for all them ailments!!!

... get well soon Jtrap ... you ate up with diabetis or what?

... Swamp... ride over for a welfare check on J... you’re closer than me

May have to...

... I would offer to pay your gas but it’s too high right now

And another unappreciative bcat released...

What turnip truck did that first one fall off of, it's got hair.

Yeah...she was all fluff up.

... good check Swamp... warming up over there ? ... cool this morning but got a south wind and rising temps here now

We got another morning in the upper 30s tommorrow...then the 40s for a couple days...then lows only in the 50s.

... I’m jealous

Yea i'll be making grape nut commercials before long! All the stuff i eat now has no taste, drinks leave a after taste like a slimy swamp water film, not sure how long i'll last in this 'healthy' lifestyle'.

Understand on the rebar stuff, i never liked disposable's, had to use them with a buddy on his line and first coyote i caught with one it yanked it out of the ground and ran off, didn't impress me.

Rocky ground up here where i live so they are useless in this country, lot of drags have to be used in some spots as well. You south gawga folks get spoiled in them sand beds.

Started out with 7 coyotes at the carcass dump near a pond. Two have went missing past 2 nights. Gator is crawling up from pond and helping himself. Note the size of the scale marks
and his tracks...

L to R
1 pickup truck.......2 pickup trucks....several log trucks.....several more log trucks

The loggers started using a road I didn't think they were going to use...

... they’ll go in one way... and out another at times Swamp lol

No bad for an old guy Swamp Wolf

Got some nice red wolves right there and a hybrid! Hope you can fix the traps!

No red wolf blood in those MattLA. 100% coyote.

And a couple of those traps are likely just trap parts now...

You need a camera on your carcass dump area. BIG lizards are cool.

Another kitty caught and released. The pic doesn't do this tom any justice....he is a 30 lb cat. Pretty belly too.

Swamp Wolf. I can feel your pain. I've caught many a combine here in Indiana but they always get away.

Pulled traps today. Cut job to 10 days...no fresh coyote sign in 3 days. That's 8 removed this time and 12 when I was here b4.

Also removed 18 coons and 2 possums.....

Would be nice to get a pic of the gator. Most folks just don't realize how much good some animal control can do an area. Especially if you want to hunt that area.

I saw the gator yesterday...he is only about 9 feet long...

But he likes bloated coyotes...

I’ll get my son to set up a camera. He feeds his carcasses to one at the swamp.