Caught my first coyote in awhile today. Another female. That makes 3 on my little bit of land.

Nice one Tony, I haven't even seen a track in a while. Pulled everything except coyote snares. Gonna just focus on them now. Done with coons this year. May set a few dirtholes again in a week or so.

nice Tony.

I got a friend in Kokomo looking for a couple late winter coyote pelts. Any of you successful trappers interested in selling/trading?

finally got a few coon DP sets back out 2 days ago and connected on a large boar this morning.

I am setting right at the base of den trees now.

Good deal Chevy. John if I catch anymore I'll let you know.

Nice coyote Tony!!!!

Have caught 5 boars this last week in coyote snares. Every one had bad spots on their back and between their shoulders. Typical for rutting boar coons this time of year. Dad and I made the decision to pull all coon sets, and I pulled or didn't re-set snares in spots likely to catch a coon. They will not sell now, and are not worth killing or the effort to put up. Sows will still be good, but we've caught enough.

Finally scored on another coyote this morning. Knew it was just a matter of time with all the tracks I saw when I first put snares out. Yaz I think you're right, in an area like this (small woods and lots of farmland) I think they travel around and come back in a few weeks.

John, I skinned it already. Forgot your buddy wanted a couple. I skinned like to sell for fur. How's he wanting them done?

I caught a big boar a couple days ago with no rub at all. Must have gotten lucky. I am giving it a few more days then calling it a season for coon...

Heck, I'd keep catching them if they are ok if I were you. It seems they get bad like that around here. They may not in other areas. Just seems like the odds are for us that when we do catch one now, its a boar, and its bad. Bad part is, when you scrape them for put up, its a nasty, infected looking mess that has holes clear through the hide. So, you can't "hide" it when you go to sell.

Thats a NICE marketable coyote Gilley. That's the color they want right now. Lighter the better. The dark red, or dark colored ones may not even sell from what we've been told.

Yes, the "locals" do have a loop that they make. Depending on how big of area they have to to travel, and available food, the longer it takes them to move back through. The exception is this time of year when they are rutting, and you get coyotes coming from all over just randomly moving through.

I was going to close this snare down and hang it up in the fence for later. Been nothing but coons hitting this hole, and mostly knocking the snare over. I have only caught one other coyote in this hole in three years, so I was done with it………..Well…...

Sweet catch....you never know where those sneaky devils will show up next. I've got snares out in spots that don't catch but once in a very great while, but you learn to stick with it. Just when you think a spot is dead, with weeks and weeks of no action, you get surprised. This time of year especially, as these dogs start to wander further.

sticksender, what I find interesting, is I will set a hole on sign. I'll catch ONE coyote out of it pretty quick. Then nothing the rest of the year. It's like that was THAT particular coyote's own personal place to cross. Then, I have places that will catch 3 to 4 every year, like my favorite double corner post hole. Or, like you said, have a snare in a spot that just sits and sits for weeks on end, then out of nowhere, there swings one……I WAS about to give it up. However, I seen a pair over the weekend that is about 1/4 mile up the road in the field next to us. Lot of CRP waterways over there. What I assume is the male, since it was a lot larger, was jet black, with a white throat, and socks. I WANT that one!!!! LOL I have never seen it. I don't know if they were passing through from somewhere else looking to set up shop, or if they've been under the radar and been there the whole time. So, I will continue for a while.

Nice catches guys!


After the snow storm dogs moved all over my property. They went threw 3 sets, jumped over 2 sets and refused the one on the fence the yote got out of. Two of my sets missed because the snares were down. I re-set them all. There were at least 3 maybe 4 dogs. h.h.

The snare I caught that last dog in had been set for almost 2 weeks with no sign at all during that time frame.

Dang HH!!!! Sounds like my kind of luck!!!!! They'll be back! One of them will be waiting on you when they do.

Gilley, I sometimes wonder if they don't come through RIGHT after we've made a set, and it spooks them off that trail for a while, and after a couple weeks of being elsewhere, they forget about it and go through………

I have had several 'old time" snare men tell me on a trail set, you should walk completely through for a ways the trail on which you set the snare. They say if the coyote comes in the same way you do to the set, and you've "stopped" and make the set, the coyote will hang up right there looking for why YOU stopped, and back out or hang up. If you pass on through after making the set, it doesn't tip them off that you stopped right there for some reason. I can't tell you that I know if thats right or not. I have a lot of respect for their ability to figure us out, but I don't know about that one…..After watching the Documentary Chevy posted…..maybe they are even smarter than I give them credit for. I do know we only catch the "dumb" ones, so maybe we are creating a SUPER coyote!!!! I do know I check all my traps and snares from as far away as I possibly can using binoculars if I have to. After making the set, I try to eliminate all other scent as I check daily.

Keep nailing them guys! Look'n good

OWNED!!!! They squeezed by two snares last night, and completely ignored a scent post set……..the other snare filled the hole in a cattle panel, they nosed it off to the side and went through…..need to quit being lazy, and brush my snares in a little more.

Nice visual! Getting beat makes the game more interesting.

NO IT DON'T Dave!!! Gives me a migraine and wears my molars down from clinching my jaws!!!!! . Like I said earlier, the dumb ones are in the fur shed, the smart ones are out there giving me a headache!!!

this coming from a guy that charges $29.95 for photographic documention...... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Other than I got lazy with my sets, what did you learn from the pictures DP??? I still haven't seen that check!!!

Yaz you got a lot more snow than we did on the other side of the county line. Decatour Bartholomew line. I wish it would snow so I could see some tracks these yotes are whipping us bad this year.

I can't really prove how much this helps, but I like to "square-up" the snare loop a little bit. I think it's a slight improvement on the "teardrop" shape. Possible this might help with some of the "nose-arounds" you mention Yaz. Of course they can still duck right under the loop or hop over it, but after dark that's unlikely. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow of one of the square loops hanging in place. In a fence-hole set it won't matter much, but out on an open trail, it can.

Snagged one more today. She was a small one, no more than 20-22 lbs I'm guessing.

I got another one today too SS. She was also small, actually got through the snare and had her around her waist. Somehow she wiggled her way in and out of the fence trying to get away. Dangdest thing I ever saw. She was expired but not to long as she wasn't to stiff.






Yaz, I sure wish I could see your pics...

Nice Gilley. Cool picture. That looks like a sweet little spot.

Awwww yeah!!!!

Just a coon and another craw daddy for us. Seen several yote tracks. They are really moving right now.

Reason they are moving is its peak of the breeding season and all the easy pickin's have been ate up. They got to search bigger areas for food. I noticed yesterday in the fresh snow their tracks are parallel to each other about 10-20 yards apart. I figured they were trying to jump rabbits up for each other, kind of like Yaz and Weed the other day......... :p h.h.

I need to teach my "dog" to be more respectful, and retrieve my rabbits out of the briar thickets!!!!! :rolleyes:

Yes they are moving well. So are the red foxes. Tracks everywhere!

NICE GOING Gilley!!!!!!! That's the way you wrap 'em up in a fence!!!! Good thing it wasn't frigid out!!! Trying to unwind a frozen coyote out of a fence is a PIA!!!!

SS, Nice catch on the female…I bet your property looks like a war zone after you get done snaring!!!! I'm all ears on the snare sets. I re-made a couple today, and blended them really well this time. Snares stand out like a turd in a punch bowl in the snow from a coyotes perspective. Just get down to their level and see what they see. When coming out of a thick area to a solid white field, they really stand out. I often though about painting up a batch of snares for snow. I just don't know if the white snare would stand out in weedy fence rows more than a dark share would on the snow……..

Not learning anymore....lol.....snares are pulled:) as far as the check goes.....you really want one;) if they do that ice fishing trip @ the summitt! Ill show you how to fish to pay ya back

WTH DP????? Pulled the snares NOW???? RIght in the best part of the coyote rut??? That would be like taking off the first week of November during deer season to go fishing!!!!! WHo in thier right mind would do that??? Wait…..um……..

With that kind of thought process,,,,,I'd double the price due to the challenges you face, Yaz.

Easy guys :p yaz.....im in a rut....lol.....im getting my rest for "Ice Out"

Weed.....really.......double the price;) sounds like you may the guy he sends out with a bat;)

What a cool sport this trapping stuff is, the boys love it but I don't think as much as I do taking them very cool to "cheat" a little and check the trap before them and then sit back and watch them, when they think they found it first this one they couldn't stand to let the other one get to the trap fist and it made it feel like it was 70 degrees out instead of 9 when we found him in the trap.