Lure that makes them dig.

[trappnman]

I do know coyotes love to eat mink...I lose 1 or 2 a year to coyotes.

[walkercoonhunter(Aaron L.)]

just from my fooling around i find that when a minor amount of ground mink glands are added to red fox gland lure the mink glands really highlight the musky odor in it.....makes it a stronger smelling gland lure without the "odd" odor.....

[bobwendt]

tman, I`ve tried repeatedly to get my pee coyotes to eat mink, and skunk ,and they lay and let them rot even if no other food offered for days on end. I`ve tried it repeatedly for years and no dice. however I`ll have to say I`ve never skinned a cage coyote that wasn`t rolly fat. yearling wild caughts are never tha way, especially late winter when times are tough. when it gets tough I`ve no doubt a coyote would eat a turd, but not by choice, rather necessity to survive. bet your mink eaters are starving pups.

[trappnman]

Bob I have it occur a couple times a year- BUT when I think of it, its always cold and lots of snow. They go into the water and pull the mink and trap up onto the bank. I've had them just chewed up, but most times ripped up into scattered pieces. How much actually ate, don't know.

[collins]

Bob,

I would love to hear your thoughts on wether you want a k-9 to dig or not.

[bobwendt]

I know oner thing, if he isn`t caught that hole better be dug out or I`m changing baits. digging at the trap and digging at the attractor is 2 entirely different scenarios, one bad , the other good. fwiw, nothing I know of causes more scratching at the application site than froze out meat fed winter collection pee.

[collins]

Bob,

Please explain, my attrator is always down the hole. I even give a shot of Spike bob cat urine down the hole. I want his entire focus to me on that hole. How can he dig at my attractor with out digging the whole. And are you serious about the urine?

[bobwendt]

yes, serious, I squirt it on the lip, top lip. if you aren`t getting digging, I`d switch attractors. this one print in the pattern and gone is a bad deal. you got him 99% there and then your bait let you down.

[collins]

Thanks Bob.

[snakebit]

I'm not a pro but I had a yote come in from the side of one of my sets last week and dug it up , I wound up with a toe catch where the hair was all in the portion of the jaw that causes the offset I went ahead and pulled the set because I had others close by (maybe a big mistake) I noticed even more digging and urineation the following days. I used Cavens Violator gland lure at that set. Did I screw up not doing a remake?

[trappnman]

I usually remake such sets....

[bobwendt]

yes, I`d have rte made it. maybe made a second set nearby up against a bif tall cutr bank where he had to come from in front. if he gotr flaky plant afew garss clumps on top and blind set him looking over the bank. he told you exactly how to catch him. and you know he came back.

[snakebit]

I did end up taking 2 dogs within 100 yards of that set after that. However I realize I should have remade that set, I've learned alot this year and still have a long way to go

[17HMR]

Snakebit, thats a road that no one gets to the end of, on coyotes you can get the basics and do well, but they adapt almost daily, and will keep you thinking.

[johnthomas]

Most good ones they dig at pretty good, its a good thing with most, but big horns medicine is to much, pups in the fall exibit insanity around the set for me, i had poor uck at dirtholes with it, they dug everywhere, trashed everything, i really cannot descibe the behavior, but it was not to my liking, maybe i used to much, im generous on lure and bait, tried it two different years, no more lol, massive digging reaction is just what you get, to much for me.