SW VA specifically, we have a bad problem with 'em here, and it's compounding exponentially every year. A decade ago you were lucky to see one a year, now it's not uncommon to see 'em at any given time, usually when you don't have any weaponry in hand, and you're late for where you are going. Sunday is a good day to see 'em too; can't hunt on Sunday, here. Just this past rifle deer season my son and I saw four and I killed one of them, and missed another when it lit a rag for another county. The other two we were too busy hunting deer to take a shot at....
Bait piles are pretty common, and we toss our deer carcasses out to hunt over 'em. They get hit usually at night, but it's never regular enough to plan any hunting around it. My buddy has a sheep herd, and he lost in the neighborhood of 30 lambs this year to various causes, and we know yotes killed at least some of them. Hunting over the dead sheep is about the same as hunting over the deer carcasses, too unpredictable. The state trapper came in and managed to kill three over the summer with poison and traps, but it's not even made a dent in 'em.
Been pondering the purchase of a Fox Pro, but everyone around here says calling these yotes is a lot tougher than yotes out west, and honestly I've only ever seen one come into an old Johnny Walker tape years ago. Mouth calls are a waste of time. I'll probably go ahead and get the Fox Pro and figure out what works, but my main question, finally, is, has anyone ever played with some sort of stink bait that is fool proof and productive?
Something that is easy and cheap to make a bunch of, that you can chum a spot with and keep 'em coming in to it? You can only aquire so many deer caracasses during a hunting season, and dead sheep are not something that we like to have a lot of.....and coyote season is open here all year long, no rules, other than you hafta have a hunting license. Anything goes, here.
Would like to continually bait several spots and be able to increase the chances of seeing them in the area during early morning and late evening hunts, sorta the way they bait bears in up north. If we do this right, and do it with the wind helping us, killing them at long range from a good shooting location should be fairly productive.
Was thinking maybe fermented dog food and chicken broth might work. Any better ideas for a good coyote nip?
Bait piles are pretty common, and we toss our deer carcasses out to hunt over 'em. They get hit usually at night, but it's never regular enough to plan any hunting around it. My buddy has a sheep herd, and he lost in the neighborhood of 30 lambs this year to various causes, and we know yotes killed at least some of them. Hunting over the dead sheep is about the same as hunting over the deer carcasses, too unpredictable. The state trapper came in and managed to kill three over the summer with poison and traps, but it's not even made a dent in 'em.
Been pondering the purchase of a Fox Pro, but everyone around here says calling these yotes is a lot tougher than yotes out west, and honestly I've only ever seen one come into an old Johnny Walker tape years ago. Mouth calls are a waste of time. I'll probably go ahead and get the Fox Pro and figure out what works, but my main question, finally, is, has anyone ever played with some sort of stink bait that is fool proof and productive?
Something that is easy and cheap to make a bunch of, that you can chum a spot with and keep 'em coming in to it? You can only aquire so many deer caracasses during a hunting season, and dead sheep are not something that we like to have a lot of.....and coyote season is open here all year long, no rules, other than you hafta have a hunting license. Anything goes, here.
Would like to continually bait several spots and be able to increase the chances of seeing them in the area during early morning and late evening hunts, sorta the way they bait bears in up north. If we do this right, and do it with the wind helping us, killing them at long range from a good shooting location should be fairly productive.
Was thinking maybe fermented dog food and chicken broth might work. Any better ideas for a good coyote nip?
