With this snow and cold weather coming in...will it slow down coon movement? I assume so, right?

Typically, this is a slow week for coon movement, as they lay up and prep for the rut. With these cold temps, and full bright moon, I'd say movement will be a minimum. If you have traps set between a den site and place for them to get a drink, you might still snag one. When they do move, it won't be far. When this weather breaks, it will be good again, as the boars will be on the hunt.

Thanks for the laugh bassbum!!!! The grinner caught by the lip is hilarious!!!!!!!

In the super cold, they'll den up for days and live off their fat....once it warms some again, they're back out making up for lost time...Brrrrrr

Yea, but now its coyote time! I'm ready now. Just finished up the last of my cable extensions and extra long cable stakes. I'm afraid with the soft ground, when it does thaw back out, they will be able to pump the stakes up through this wet ground. Be setting this week.

Hopefully this wont take up a whole page. I have been meaning to get back on here but work and the family are keeping me busy. I have a small line I am running with the help of my bro & another friend. All were caught in snares with in the past two weeks











Looking forward to the snow
Good Luck guys! Looks like everyone is having success!!

Thanks for posting. Good pictures .

Nice pictures and good catches guys! h.h.

A regular coyote obituary page! Good stuff

Good Stuff!!!! Nice catches Buckwheat!!!!!

Nice work buckwheat !

Is it ok, or well, good to set footholds in the snow?

I would hold off until the wind/drifting is past. Sets would get covered up before you even got home.

Really need to snare right now.

I rode my 4wheeler around looking for yote tracks today and not a yote track to be found on my place. I did set two snares in places Ive caught them last year. h.h.

Nice ones Buckwheat, that one dog is huge!!

WE had a few moving. Didn't set anything yet. Going to wait until Friday after the cold blast.

How much snow in Richmond?

We got only about an inch over here.

5"-6" here. All fluffy stuff. Going to be a mess when the wind picks up.

Ya same as bean 5-7 in randolph county...fluffy powder snow

FINALLY in the game! Got 10 cables up, and three traps in the ground late this afternoon. Little bit of coyote sign around, but between the deer tracks, and the drifting snow, it was tough to tell much else. A good sharp hatchet was my friend getting trap beds dug. I did NOT use any calcium on these sets yet. I'm experimenting with another method of keeping traps working without it, or any other chemical. Made a scent post, big hole step down, and hay pile sets. Mostly loud, highly visible sets. Did not use urine on any of the sets. DId not bait the hay pile set with anything but a mouse nest, and one of it's occupants. Big hole only got a chunk of tainted deer meat and a piece of white hide as a visual. Scent post got some beaver castor, and tad bit of fox gland lure only.

Man gotta take a picture of these sets to help us newbies.

Glad to hear your in the game Yaz. Been sick with the flu for the second time this year and going into a bad turn around at work has me side lined for now. still going to try to get to the golf course before the fur starts getting rubbed.

Good luck Yaz....glad to see you back attacking them with all you got!

Trad, I will try tomorrow. It was all I could do to get them in today. Wasn't taking my gloves off to get to my phone, except when Weedy called…He has this uncanny ability to know when to call me right when I'm in the middle of something important!!! :rolleyes: Like trying to kill a deer... Plus, the frozen snot cycles were piling up on the sets…….. If coyotes can smell that, I'm screwed!!!!

Haha no worries man, it was a little chilly today.good luck with them, I'd just ignore weed ha, although the hot air he's talking may warm ya up a bit!!

If I hadn't called him...he'd still be asleep on that mud trail and never seen that deer. And I KNEW that he was outside in those cold temps yesterday, and KNEW he'd fall asleep somewhere. The old fella has to get his naps in about every 3-4 hours. I worry about the senile old fart. :rolleyes:

Haha, I see your point now weed. That's a good friend there.

Thanks for looking out for me old pal!!!! I think….. Between setting traps, and getting the cattle taken care of, I was in that crap for 6 hours……It did kinda wear my old butt out!!! :rolleyes:

I did a funeral this morning and it was brutal outside. First time wearing under armor under a suit. This kinda cold wears ya out no matter what AGE.

We got nothing but snares out. Others will be set this weekend - maybe.

You thinned them out pretty good HH! I have a few that moved back in, but NOTHING like it has been.

Nothing today but I did set two new snares. There were yotes out last night or early this AM I had 2-3 different sets of tracks. h.h.

Glad to see you get traps out Yaz. I'm gonna set some snares this weekend and maybe a few dirtholes. Bean I bet that was miserable, only thing worse than a funeral is bad weather at a funeral.

Only fresh canine track I ran across today was a Wiley Red. The only thing that worked any of my sets were the deer. I guess they trying to figure out what i am up to now! Wasn't expecting anything today, and that's what happened. Seems like day 3 and after is when stuff starts working for me.

Here you go Trad. Right, wrong, or somewhere in between….This is how I tend to make my sets.

This first picture shows you WHY I chose to make the sets here. IMO, location is a lot more important than the actual type of set you make. This is a "funnel" with a short lane between two alfalfa fields. There is a draw/point that comes out of a big thicket and the woods. With a W or NW wind, the scent should blow up into the woods and thicket. Coyotes travel that lane, and there is always coyote turds there. The two red lines are tap locations.


Here is the "big hole" set. made to imitate a groundhog hole. Dug it 18" deep with a tile spade. Makes it so they have to really work to get at the bait, and get CLOSE to see what is in the bottom. Since it is made on a fairly steep slope, you can see there is only one approach the coyote can make to see down in the hole. Red X is where the trap is at. No urine or lure on this one. Just some tainted deer meat. If I don't get any action in a week, I'll add a little lure to it.


Typical scent post right on the point with weeds. I put the rock there as a visual. Its in a spot where they would typically mark anyway. Urine, and some gland lure under the rock. Red X is the trap.


Hay set just off of some round bales in the edge of a lane. Put the pile out there about two weeks ago, and put some bird seed under it to attract the field mice. It had been hit once before it snowed. I took a rake and spread it around to make it look like something has been in it. I took a mouse nest, and mouse and stuck under the hay at the edge of it. If you've every smelled a mouse nest, you'll know why I didn't add any lure or other scent! I have caught way more red fox in this set. But it does work on the coyotes. Red X is trap. Again, if no action in a week, I'll add some lure of some sort. I always try to start out subtle with the lures and bait.



It seems by this time of year, the coyotes are a little more educated, and have seen a standard dirt hole set, so I make something a little different along with the standard dirt hole and flat sets.

Thank you very much Yaz, appreciate it. I am more of a visual and hands on learner. So thanks again and I will defiantly use this info.

Definitely not defiantly, stupid auto correct

Hope you get to feeling better bassbum!!! I look forward to pics of your catches!!!!

No problem Trad.! I hope to make a few more sets this weekend. Don't hesitate to ask. I've made MANY mistakes trapping over the years. I may not be able to tell you how to do something, but I can tell you how NOT to do it!!!

Cool set up yaz and thanks for taking the time to do the pics and graphics

I forgot to mention. Don't get all caught up on using hay. You can rake up a pile of bean stalks and chaff, or pile up a bunch of corn stalks and accomplish the same thing. They hunt those piles for mice and rodents. Just the visual of a pile in an otherwise flat field is often enough to get them to investigate. Then I typically make a blind trap set, and use scissors and cut up whatever the pile of made of for the final trap covering. It blends perfectly.