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Post by Wiley on Mar 16, 2007 11:43:22 GMT -6
You can certainly borrow those traps again but I better take the tags off if I'm going to set them around here. Woudn't want to see you get the blame for trespassing if someone didn't know it was me trapping. I'm usually pretty careful where I set but you never know who might wander around where they weren't supposed to be and take their stupid dog with them.
You are right about locations in different areas. Some come easy and some don't. Each new area is a learning experience.
Stop by again and I'll send you on your way with more toys to play with. I might try to make the FTA convention.
~SH~
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Post by MRussell on Mar 20, 2007 22:13:01 GMT -6
I have been guilty of not paying close enough attention to seasonal pattern changes . IT seems to me that later during trapping season the yotes that I target start to change their travel patterns. I found a lake levee that was covered with deer hair filled scat. This was in January. Well nothing I set produced. After 10 days I pulled everything. I never found any new scat or fresh tracks. I stayed 5 days too long for sure. Actually I probably should have never set there because when I found the spot there was no fresh sign.
MR
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Post by Steve Gappa on Mar 21, 2007 13:41:25 GMT -6
I think a lot does depend on the patterns.
here, the patterns are small and during the easy life of early fall, predictible.
not os, in late Jan, Feb.
during my brief stint at snow trapping this year- I never did see any patterns. No tracks for a wek- then tracks for a day or two, then nothing...
or...no tracks...then tracks everynight...
Wish I was going back to WY to see if this is a pattern or not, but I found out there, the places where I saw the most sign as far as scat, never did produce.
BUT- these were now all empty pastures, whereas the scat was done in the week before, when all the cows were moved.
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Mar 21, 2007 19:31:23 GMT -6
coyotes patterns do change to a degree durring the months of Jan/March. I have found great luck by using big baits as a natural stalling out spot for coyotes. They can do meet and greets and get in on a nice road kill dinner.
The colder the weather and less cover over the "fall" lends well to them taking to wooded creek bottoms and deep draws when you have windy conditions and cold weather. Those mangy coyotes hang out and don't move far and can be had on big baits and setting next to hay stacks that have yet to be used are other good late winter locations.
Later they will congragate around the calving operations and areas that have little in the way of human activity will stack up coyotes in Jan/Feb. When you have snow, areas that offer southern exsposure and easier travel will be good places to catch coyotes as well. Creek bottoms get run hard and nice places to hang snares on the trails that go around larger cut banks etc.
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Post by MRussell on Mar 24, 2007 4:14:19 GMT -6
Big Baits. I never thought about it specifically. In general I notice how a carcass of any kind would disappear overnight in January. also a yotes aggression level seems to increase at this time too. Partially because the rut is coming and partially because food is getting tight and the home territory thing has went out of the window and survival mode has sky rocketed. Around here for me the yote trapping can get pretty tough the final two weeks of season. BTW our season goes out in the south zone the 25 of Jan.
MR
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Post by Freak( Jim V.) on Mar 24, 2007 9:29:01 GMT -6
To not trust your gut instinct on some spots and not set em just because.
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Post by pinky on Mar 24, 2007 17:04:09 GMT -6
trap placement
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