DO NOT USE POISON. Dead eagles and other birds are the least of your worries. You could kill SOMEONE...much worse.

After seeing what my labs can eat AND pass, I don't think a sponge would phase a coyote.

Trappers have been put out of business by our wonderful state game laws so now landowners are gonna have to pick up the slack and extra cost of learning to and trapping predators themselves! This is not easy or cheap if you truely wish to be effective!

Section 9-11-245
Unlawful methods of hunting birds or animals protected by law or regulation.

No person shall at any time make use of any pitfall, deadfall, baited field, cage, trap, net, pen, baited hook, snare, poison, explosive, or chemical for the purpose of injuring, capturing, or killing birds or animals protected by law or regulation of this state. This section shall not prevent the trapping of animals classified as fur-bearing animals by a duly licensed fur catcher. It shall be legal to use a scaffold for gun hunting of all legal game species except wild turkey and to use a scaffold for bow hunting of all legal game species.
(Acts 1951, No. 1001, p. 1672, �2; Acts 1975, No. 195, p. 681, �1; Acts 1995, No. 95-563, p. 1174, �1.)

Section 9-11-59
License to capture or kill fur-bearing animals for commercial purposes; traps.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to take, capture, or kill, or to attempt to take, capture, or kill for commercial purposes by any means or device any of the fur-bearing animals protected by the laws or regulations of this state without first procuring a license therefor, to be issued in the same manner as is provided for hunting and fishing licenses. Any person who has been a bona fide resident of this state for six months next preceding may procure a resident trapping license by paying the sum of $7.65. Any person who has not been a bona fide resident of this state for six months next preceding may procure a nonresident trapping license by paying the sum of $500.15. Any resident or nonresident when trapping for beaver only shall not be required to pay a license fee. A trapping license shall be valid only during the season when fur-bearing animals may be legally taken.

trappers wern't put out of business because of game laws. Like gobbler said, no demand for furs, prices dropped, fell out the bottom, trapping virtually stopped.

There wasn't much yote trapping going on then anyway compared to coons, red fox, etc. They just didn't bring the money and coons were, are, a hell of a lot easier to trap.

In 1980-81 you couldn't find a dead coon, opossum, fox on the roads. Buyers were paying $5 for an unskinned road kill opossum, and gas wasn't so high either. LOTS of folks were making routes to pick up road kills before work.

troy

Preacher, a LOT of folks were running lines before work, after work, all hours of the day and night.

I'd guess(long time ago) that probably 1/4 of the complaints I had then involved trespassing and illegal trapping. Lots of putting traps under every bridge over any size creek.

I remember good coons bringing $35. Seems everybody and their son, brother,cousin was trapping or picking up roadkills.

Would be great if it would work but I suspect that you would have a hard time convincing a yote to fall for this one!

That bounty idea sounds good to me. I try to kill every one of the mangey bastards I see but have only shot 4 in my life. I've probably only seen 5-6 while hunting. I'd love to see a $200 bounty on them, pups included. The rabbit/rat populaton would still be kept in check by foxes, birds of prey, and snakes. We don't need yotes for anything in my opinion.

Dr. B

And before anybody can ask how I expect to pay for this program, I'll go ahead and give you the answer - raise taxes on the rich. That works for everything.

With ideas like this, I think I've got a great chance to win.

Curious how trappers have been put out of business by game laws? The fur business went out because of the anti's protesting, etc. Game law says you can trap yotes year round and other furbearers during normal seasons? Not bashing, just questioning