Yes it is but unless you just want to play around in rotten guts I'd leave all that mess to the TV folks!

If you have access to cattle find an old skeleton and get you a sack full of t-bones like the one in that first pic I posted. Drive it in the ground, stick a q tip in that nice clean little jar of gusto then stick the q tip in the hole in the bone.

No fuss, no mess, no buckets of rotten afterbirth and I guarantee it'll catch just as many coyotes!

Day 2.......3 more coons

Total coon catches: 7

Two of the catches were females. That’s very promising. When they first start coming out of the den I imagine they're gonna be on the hunt for food. One female looked like she must not have had babies this year….no milking boobies. The other one definitely did though.



This is very frustrating. I should have a yote laying there with them as well but luck saved him.



As he was digging at the dirt hole, he must have brought up a rock and kicked it over in just the right place so that when the jaws snapped this is what happened. The next set around the road from this one was my bone set I was showing. He walked all around it checking it out but I suppose my scent was still too fresh or he didn’t like something about it. He pooped in the road and kept going until he hit this set that he worked……I’m assuming anyways.

One of you trappers are likely looking at my pan covers above and thinking to yourself that I need to wrinkle them up. You’re probably right. I tried something with a few of them to see how it worked. I precut my pan covers with a pattern I made and then dipped some of them in my hot wax as I was waxing my traps. It deadened that crinkly paper sound but I still think I may like them better the other way. They just conform to the shape of things better after being wadded up.

I snapped a pic of one more of my sets this morning. Nothing has messed with it yet.

I’ve got a couple sets that I’m just not happy with that I’m gonna move tomorrow. I put them in good areas for likely yote activity but not good areas to check without disturbing things. One of the traps I’m gonna move into the area where I’m getting the active hits on my sets. I’m gonna make another bone set but throw him a little curveball this time with the deer leg below I snagged out of my summer blood tracking stash. I’m gonna tuck it up in some kind of bushes this time instead just being so obviously stuck out in the open like my current bone set. The guy who made the turtle shell set I watched on youtube talked about that. He said that the obvious bone or skull or shell just sitting out in the open caused more suspicion in the yote than if you tucked back inside of some limbs or bushes where it was partially hidden. He said to make the yote feel like he’s found something rather than it being stuck out like a sore thumb. I think I left my first leg bone a little too out in the open.

Been watching Clint Locklear I see!... Lol!

Heck, I think I've watched them ALL now.

Day 3……..

Sweet redemption after yesterday’s bad luck with the rock. I caught my first yote!!!!! Woooo! Hoooooo!!!!!.....Coincidentally I got her in the very set I posted in that last pic yesterday.



Total catch for Day 3 ……… 1 yote,1 possum

Total catch to date: 7 coons, 1 possum, 1 yote

The coons must not have been moving last night on that bright full moon. Only picked up a single possum.

So here’s our new deer leg set. I may get chit on again with this one but I feel really good about it. You gotta look close but you can see the hooves and the brown of the leg tucked into the grass in the back with my pan sitting out in front of it. The two little pines are actually limbs I snapped off and jabbed in the ground to funnel the yote a little better.




I also poured some deer blood in the road straight out from the set and leading over to it……..We’ll see what happens.

Congrats on the coyote!

cool project. Looks like Christmas everyday.

Thanks fellas!

Nice catch

Nice catch!

Day 4........1 possum 1 coon

Total: 8 coon, 2 possum, 1 yote


Got another female coon this morning. I think the bright nights may be slowing things down just a little. Maybe we'll get a dark night tonight with the rain moving in. I put tin foil caps over all the DP's so that I didn't have to re-bait them. They're just baited with cat food and catfish pellets.

Day 5......Nuttin

All my sets still looked like they were in pretty good shape after the rain. I dug up a 5 gallon bucket of dry dirt yesterday and used it today to fix the sets back up a little. All I really did was rake the wet dirt back off the pan and check to make sure the pan cover had done its job. I then sifted fresh dry dirt back over the set and freshened up the bait/lure. Maybe things will pick back up tomorrow.

Day 6……….. Total to date: 10 coon, 1 possum, 3 yote

Today: 2 coons, 2 yotes



Got another female yote.......





and one male…….

Impressive

Congrats CNC! It always seems like after that first coyote it gets easier.

I know you're keeping up with everything going on with your sets, baits and lures but here's one to keep tabs on.

Watch your set locations. I've trapped several properties for years and some locations are just magnets for predators. Some will be a natural funnel or on a food source so they'll make perfect sense but others will be oddball places that for no apparent ryme or reason draw them in.

I've found a couple of spots like this by setting on coyote sign.

Another thing to watch is your remake sets after catches. I used to try to hide sets and cover up signs of a catch but have better success just cleaning up the catch circle somewhat and resetting in the same spot.

A remake has all the scents and sign of a struggle and that is a natural draw to predators.

That is so cool. Makes me want to buy a heap ton of traps and catch something.