Dang! Nice!

Surely you've saved some wildlife Stick, along with the others trapping here. May be mostly mice and such, but still a good thing for the rest of the stuff lower on the food chain.

Nice one SS. Are you skinning and selling all of them?

Dave no doubt they eat lots of mice and other small critters. But I've also gotten summer trail cam pics of a coyote trotting along with a fawn leg in his mouth. And twice I've had yotes "stalk" and ambush my hen decoy while I'm turkey hunting. I think they have a lot of success on turkeys. During shed hunting season, we always find turkey feather piles scattered around the farm. I'm sure they'll eat anything and everything they can catch. Of course, that's what they're made to do, perfectly natural. In the same way that it's completely natural for us, as competing predators, to whack down their numbers

Gilley I take them direct to a specialty furbuyer who has his own tannery. He makes hats out of most of them.

Very nice stick.....i see you are up to 30 or more.....

Nice catch Stick!!!! Appears he has a case of water head!! I'm the same way….as long as the coyotes keep coming, and I can get to them, I'll keep after it. About the time I THINK i'm done, there's another one.

Took the last of my fur to a friends last night and this is what I walked into....



He had a very good January. He caught 128 coons in the last 3 weeks of season. His total of coons for the year was 278 and he is at 110 coyotes right now. He also buys fur in his spare time. His buyer is coming to pick up everything FINISHED a week from Monday. Hope he has a lot of coffee.

http://www.tribstar.com/sports/redn...01bd883-7399-5c65-b2e4-4e77fc72065d.html

Just in case you wonder what type of guy it takes to do this, here is a good write up about him.

That's a truck full of coons. That is crazy.

#1. That is one heck of an accomplishment….for anyone! Congrats to him! Hope it sells well for him.

#2. That is one HE!! of a bunch of work!!!!!

Yep, #2 above, can't even imagine.

WOW

This weeks: Had one in a blind set in a MB 650, had another one in a snare this morning. And for the SECOND time this week…had another one break a new snare cable. Frayed it on the fence. That's unacceptable!!!!! Next years lineup will be snares just long enough to make the loop, and tag end of 2". Everything will be on 1/8" stainless extensions!!!! Should be able to re-use the extensions, and just snap on a new loop.

Seen a coyote out hunting this morning close by…..they just keep coming. Re-making sets this afternoon after it warms up some!

Good pics. You'd think the one's that make it thank you for making life easier with the reduced competition for food.

those yotes are mighty tuff on gear.

Keep slayin em Yaz

Great pics Yaz.....impressive:)

Good catches Yaz, bet it was fun cleaning up that muddy one. Did you take him thru the carwash? We went out and called early this morning but didn't see any. On the way back home, a couple miles from where we were calling, saw 2 way out in a field.

Hey Yaz and SS, I sold my skinned coyotes today, got $18 for one $15 for 2 and $8 for a little female. What kind of prices you guys getting?

Nice Yaz. Another light faced one I see. There must be a bloodline with that coloring in your area. You might wipe it out though!

Gilley- That doesn't sound half bad. Hard to say what price/value I'll end up with, because of bartering them for other finished fur work.

Gilley, We have not sold any. Auction is the 28'th of this month. Everyone says coyotes will still sell well, so we are putting them up as we catch them. Coons got stuck in the freezer pending the results of the ones we sent to the auction. Did you just skin and sell them green? Those are pretty decent prices selling locally.

Stick, have never seen coyotes this color around here till this year. I have one in the freezer for a taxidermy project one day. Here is five of the last six I've caught…They look like over sized red foxes.

Awww the yotes on the concrete floor are cuddling:)

You aint right!!!!

Your the second person that has said that to me 2day

Yaz are you going to the sell at Bartholomew county fairgrounds end of this month?

Had planned to retire each set location with the next catch. But this new snow provides some inspiration to keep going. I went ahead and rebuilt a couple sets. I believe that leaves 18 sets still hanging.

Caught this younger male last night. He was rubbed off pretty good on the shoulders and tail. But still, it's another one out of the pack!

You have "40" in your sights like I have "20" in mine!!!! We're just going to have to quit "cold turkey" Greg, or its NEVER going to end!!!!! I'm putting back a couple snares this afternoon myself!!!!

Yaz, yea I just skinned and froze them. Didn't flesh them or anything. At the rate you and SS are catching them I'd leave snares out til the very end. I've only got 6 snares out and will pull them sometime this week.

We and thought about it, but going to stick with NAFA for the time being.

7 sets of fresh tracks on two farms today. One set let to this! Another female!!


This one's mate somehow managed to get through the gauntlet in the weed patch, and go through a crawl under in the fence that did not have a snare in it. Its a spot that catches more coons than coyotes, and I did not set it back at the end of January, as I did not want to have to fool with them.

Wow that's quite a predicament huh? How was the hair on that one?

Looks like you got a lot more snow that we did. Only about an inch fell up here.

Ha!! Reminds me of the one I caught that was all twisted thru a wire fence. They must think they can get away if they climb thru the fence.

Well I pulled all my snares tonight, I'm done til next year. Gonna still try to call some in over the next few weeks. Good luck to you guys still trapping. Keep catching them.

We had a good year Gilley!!!! Thanks for the pictures………even though they were upside down most of the time!!!!

Sticksender, She was perfect! All the white tipped guard hair was still there. She will sell just fine.

I hit the coyote jackpot tonight fellas!!! Three tracks crossed the road out of a NASTY briar hollow across the road from us. I mean its thick. Just ask Weedy. I'm still seeing blood and chunks of meat off his thighs in there from rabbit hunting!!!! I backtracked the yaps about 40 yards over the hill to a creek bottom to find what looked like a bomb went off. Road kill deer…….There were 4 trails through the brush coming and going to it. Bad part is, where I really need to make sets so as not to disturb the entire area is too open for cables. I have 6 more clean and ready #3's to make blind sets at each one of the logs/sticks they are crossing. You can see exactly where they put their feet to jump over.

Stack'm up Yaz.

Awwww yeah!!!

That'll work !

yea keep at it Yaz, at least I figured out how to see your pics. . You and SS are still putting the hurt on them.

Thanks Gilley. The wind has the snow piling up in the fence rows. That'll put the snares out of commission for a while. I worked for 2.5 hours this afternoon to make 5 sets in that bottom where the coyotes are working on the deer carcass. Chopped and chopped with a hatchet to get trap beds made. Some of them I couldn't even get all the way down. WTH was I thinking???? :rolleyes: BTW-Bershire disposable stakes SUCK in frozen ground. Even with making a pilot hole to get it started…..

Yaz do they keep slipping off the driver about half way in the ground

Yes!!!! I see you've had the same problem. Pizzes me off....get one 1/2 way down, then you have to TRY to pull it back up through frozen ground!!!! Its because they aren't heavy enough steel, and the tips bend down, letting the driver slip off. I even use the driver to make a pilot hole, and they still do it. I've got so many, I have to use them up. I'll just use them in early season and on coon sets, etc. However, when I start after coyotes in January next year, I will have some Wolffangs.....Take a look at them and the driver. A lot different design. They WILL drive through frozen ground. The dis-advantage is....They are heavier, and you almost have to dig em to get them back.

Yea same problem, and I have them and the driver so I dont want to start over but yea it sucked my fingers were numb by the time I got done jacking with them.I just thought I was hitting something but it must be a problem thanks for the info

Well, I'm learning. You CAN alter a coyotes cadence or stride on a trail and make them step right on the pan of the trap in a blind set!! I went approx. 4' both sides of the trap, and using small sticks laid across the trail in the right interval, and was able to put him right on the pan.



Totally fooled him….


If you look on the left side of the picture above his right ear, you can see the first of subtle guide sticks coming to the trap. I reset the trap he was in at the catch circle. Made a post set out of the mess he made. Went right to the far the side of that stick, and made another blind set on the trail. We will see how Ma Nature treats us tomorrow. It may be a lost cause depending on whether we get rain, Ice, snow or all of the above……...