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Post by Iowa Badger on Mar 17, 2004 10:44:59 GMT -6
Good tip k9  I know excatly where some level B roads are, and dead end into the highway, I'll check them out when scouting. See, that is what this sight is all about. |
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Post by Timber on Mar 17, 2004 12:37:40 GMT -6
I trapped along a major interstate north of the Twin Cities metro area this year for the first time. The last few years I have seen large numbers of coyotes while driving down the highway on my way to my trapline. This last season I decided to try and move my line up one side of the freeway and then resume my normal line and then back down the other side of the freeway and home. I had no trouble getting permission from the various homeowners, farmers,and others who owned land ajacent to the freeway. Let me tell you the land was prime coyote land and lots of sign. Almost all the owners reported problems with coyotes. I set out my line the first week in november and concentrated on the new land before deer season and then planned to mainly run my existing line after deer season. In the first 12 days I trapped 34 coyotes and had 3 pullout, one as I was screwing around with a camera. I never picked up a fox. I used mainly the basic assortment of trapper sets with a tendency toward flat sets because of time. My most productive sets believe it or not were two seperate sets on oppisite sides of the freeway about a 1 mile apart. Both were skunks that had been chewed up and were a lose. I buried the skunks with just the tip of the tail showing and set a #3 about 6-9 inches away. These two sets resulted in 13 total coyotes. I don't know if the roads are a barrier or bondry but I do know that coyotes migrate up and down the property that borders the road. Some of it is easy to get to from deadend roads but most of the time I would use maintence/farm/billboard roads and then walk to the areas.
On another note, I got a call from a friend of my mothers who lives in Hugo, Mn who said she had wolves in her yard. Now the people are new to country living so I knew she meant coyote. She lives within sight of a major freeway. I went their in late jan. and called in and shot 6 coyotes over 4 hunts. I know there are many more because on the last day I saw 4 rolling across a cut hay field at about 1:00 pm. I have a hard time believeing this is MN.
Tim
About a week ago I was calling on the MN side of the St. Croix river and called a pair across the ice from Wisc. They came all the way across until about 10 feet from the MN side. The channel was open and you could tell they wanted to cross but wouldn't. I ended up letting both of them go because I had no way to get them off the ice. Ohh well seed for next year.
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Post by k9 on Mar 17, 2004 22:11:20 GMT -6
It would be nice Clefus but here in Iowa you can't stop along an Interstate unless it is an emergency. So you gotta access those pockets the harder way.
However when you are on the level B looking at that coyote track crossing over. Look both ways. Where is he coming from? Where is he going? Can you figure out why. If you can figure out those questions, you can target the farms you want to set on and forget the rest, unless they are farms that you need to travel by anyway to get to the ones you want.
Some guys think that having hundreds of acres worth of permission is a good thing. I wnat targeted permission.
Since we are on the topic of Interstates, and level B's, consider this. Coyotes also have their own Interstates, and level B travelways. There are coyote travelways that are like a level B, and are only used once in a while by passing coyotes. Then there are travelways that are used by many coyotes, very frequently. Those are coyote Interstates. Learn to spot the Interstates and set them, and you will be rewarded. Find a place where two coyote Interstates intersect and set that crossing, and you will be doubly rewarded.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 18, 2004 16:10:58 GMT -6
Coyotes also have their own Interstates, and level B travelways. There are coyote travelways that are like a level B, and are only used once in a while by passing coyotes. Then there are travelways that are used by many coyotes, very frequently. Those are coyote Interstates. Learn to spot the Interstates and set them, and you will be rewarded. Find a place where two coyote Interstates intersect and set that crossing, and you will be doubly rewarded.
I agree- and why shouldn't I ;D - this goes direct to the neutral area or social area locations I mentioned previously- I believe that they are along the Interstates of coyote travel lanes- and as long as we are carrying on the analogy of interstates/vehicles- I think these social areas are rest stops- thus the constant traffic of coyotes into and through the area. The portal definition also fits-
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Post by chessiepup on Mar 18, 2004 17:15:24 GMT -6
between this topic and Trappnman's article in T&PC I se how little we know about a coyotes habits as compared to some other game animals like whitetail elk ect. so get to work writeing a book already Gappa can I get a signed one? ;D
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Post by k9 on Mar 18, 2004 18:02:17 GMT -6
What did you write about in TPC Steve? I do not take it with my State membership.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 18, 2004 18:57:49 GMT -6
A brief overview of my collaring experiences. Check your pm
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Post by Zagman on Mar 19, 2004 6:56:30 GMT -6
I travel the NYS Thruway (I-90) a ton for work....about 10 miles from where I live, there's a farm along the Interstate that I have driven past a ton, perhaps thousands of times.
There's a long fencerow and hedge that 90 degree into the highway. About 75 yards from the HWY in that hedge is a gate opening.
Just about 50 yards past that opening is a ridgeline with rock outcroppings, all grown up with sumac and brush, that is a terraced separation between the higher corn fields and lower hay field next to the HWY. This ridge runs parallel to the HWY for a long ways....
EVERYTIME I drive by that spot I look at that gate opening and picture a coyote going right through that opening....EVERYTIME. I also picture a coyote or two in traps there.....
I think it would be a good location on it's own, but feel it is improved due to the four-lane/barrier......
I need to get that farm! Never asked...its 180 degrees from the way my line exits my home.
It is now written down as a goal for this season....
Zag
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Post by pnwmtnmn on Mar 19, 2004 13:20:51 GMT -6
Here in Washington we don't have the level b type of road. Here along the farmed ground where a interstate cuts through the state puts in a frontage road that parallels the interstate on both sides.
The interstate have a fence 50 feet from the edge of the roadway, no trapping unless adc permit. The frontage roads are set 50 feet away from this fence. They start at one on/off ramp and go the the next ramp or further. At spots there are public hunting and fishing areas(this also means trapping) and the furbearers are loaded in them because nobody walks around them in spring and summer.
To the point of this thread Some roads are barriers to coyotes and others not. We need to figure out the coyote better.
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