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With fawns hitting the ground I thought I would start my summer trapping this week and in scouting one of the very best places to lay in some iron is "on sign"! Set your traps where there is an existing track. Coyotes hunt with their noses and have been around thousands of years. They run the same topography year in and year out. I have been trapping canines over 50 years in many parts of the country and am continuing to be a good student|interested learner. I have caught many non-target animals: eagles, hawks, feral dogs, cats, humans, hunting dogs (rabbit hunters get upset on CATOOSA) magpies, blue jays, bear and about every small game species in North America.

Today I caught in a trap, set "on sign" on my property (set a trap on a trail with fresh coyote tracks), using a guide stick and fox urine used at a very small scent post this bird. I had to eliminate the bird from the area as it might attract an eagle. Doing my best to help the resource and for the second time in 50 years I catch this. Although I don't personally hunt turkeys and haven't shot one since high school, I hope it's another 50 years before I am the predator once again.

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Dean Parisian said:
Mark June is a trapper I have always thought to give great demo's.
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I have some stuff from Mr. June.
Yes, we all hate to catch non-targeted things.
Knock on wood, I haven't yet had the misfortune of accidently catching a turkey,
so I assume it's pretty rare to catch a turkey while trying to catch a coyote.
 
TheLBLman said:
I have some stuff from Mr. June.
Yes, we all hate to catch non-targeted things.
Knock on wood, I haven't yet had the misfortune of accidently catching a turkey,
so I assume it's pretty rare to catch a turkey while trying to catch a coyote.
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Pan tension and the set itself will help with non target i try to set where turkeys will have a hard time getting into the trap and i keep my pan tension set on the heavy side just in case. The problems i have is coon hounds and the so called hunters that will trespass to retrieve their dog and when they come across my sets that are on private ground bigger than the farms they hunt tear my sets apart and some have left notes threatening to sue because their dog gets caught. But i keep on keeping on and have had good results in doing so.
 
Guys... you really need to get into calling coyotes. It's more fun than deer hunting. The new digital MFK coyote sounds are just unreal. Blow a lone howl, a pair howling, then 3 to 5w old pup sounds, and any coyote within earshot is coming in running hot to the call. Blast away and don't have to fool with cleaning an animal afterwards.

We are up to 17 dogs killed on my farms since Nov. It's a blast, and I bet I'm going to have the best fawn recruitment numbers I've had in 15 years.

We run multiple cams, and when a new dog shows up on cam, we go out to that area asap and take him out with the call.
 
megalomaniac said:
Guys... you really need to get into calling coyotes. It's more fun than deer hunting. The new digital MFK coyote sounds are just unreal. Blow a lone howl, a pair howling, then 3 to 5w old pup sounds, and any coyote within earshot is coming in running hot to the call. Blast away and don't have to fool with cleaning an animal afterwards.

We are up to 17 dogs killed on my farms since Nov. It's a blast, and I bet I'm going to have the best fawn recruitment numbers I've had in 15 years.

We run multiple cams, and when a new dog shows up on cam, we go out to that area asap and take him out with the call.
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Calling is nice to play and pass time, but a good trapper could get 500 since nov, if they were that many around
 
knightrider said:
Calling is nice to play and pass time, but a good trapper could get 500 since nov, if they were that many around
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I guess I've never found a good trapper. I've had two guys try to trap my place and they came up with zero, even though I get 'yotes on cam on a daily basis.
 
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BSK said:
I guess I've never found a good trapper. I've had two guys try to trap my place and they came up with zero, even though I get 'yotes on cam on a daily basis.
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You need to check into an accomplished coyote trapper.
A person can be really good at trapping raccoons (and other critters), but very unsuccessful with coyotes.

Successful coyote trapping typically requires much more experience, and attention to detail few can comprehend.

As an aside, bobcats are very easy to trap compared to coyotes.
 
TheLBLman said:
You need to check into an accomplished coyote trapper.
A person can be really good at trapping raccoons (and other critters), but very unsuccessful with coyotes.

Successful coyote trapping typically requires much more experience, and attention to detail few can comprehend.

As an aside, bobcats are very easy to trap compared to coyotes.
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Boh guys were experienced coyote trappers. But none of the road network traps worked.
 
BSK said:
Boh guys were experienced coyote trappers. But none of the road network traps worked.
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BSK
How long did they trap ? The reason i ask is time is a trappers friend. We average anywhere from 1 to 6 days per trap. Like i said earlier a coyote is smart. The locals know you have been there. We ran cams on some of our most productive set and we would get pictures of the same coyotes every night but noticed when tbere was a new dog we hadn't seen for whatever reason that dog was the one working the sets and getting caught. Really changed the way I trap coyotes.
But like everything else in the world of hunting and trapping catching isn't a guarantee. I jave trapped 2 farms side by side for coons cats and coyotes catch the crap out of coyotes and cats on one farm and never caught a coon on tbat farm but next door all we catch is coons and no coyotes or cats. Same ag same swamp and creeks. Hero to one farmer flop to the next door farmer. And by the way my offer still stands to you once i get over this broken ankle.
 
BSK said:
They tried for a couple weeks each, in early summer.
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Thats a hard time to trap. But can be productive. Our most productive time is right after deer season is closing through last of march but can be really good late spring early summer. And awesome when pups are scattered.
 
BSK said:
They tried for a couple weeks each, in early summer.
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Early summer is typically the worst time for trapping any carnivore.

Their prey species are typically at the most abundant, and most vulnerable, time for the year.
Lots of baby & young rabbits, rodents, birds, turkeys, you name it.
Coyotes tend to be fat & lazy in early summer.

Very best time for trapping carnivores is probably @ mid-January thru mid-February.
But any time of year can work.

But, imo, for the primary purpose of enhancing both fawn & turkey poult survival,
the very best month is likely May, even better is a 2-month period of mid-April thru mid-June.
This allows baby turkeys & deer to get a tad bigger/older before a transient coyote, bobcat, racoon, has much opportunity to establish new residence in the trapping area.
 

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