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Post by northof50 on Dec 24, 2018 9:25:52 GMT -6
To the best of the season to everyone.
The deer season just ended... and Mr big goes to next year
The marten season is going slow.
The coyote hair is breaking so that season is done.
onto the hard water season on Lake Winnipeg now.
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Post by bblwi on Dec 25, 2018 21:20:17 GMT -6
Is this the typical time your yotes start breaking up? Or is it earlier or later this season?
Around here many buyers don't encourage harvesting yotes until Mid-November which in reality can make for a shorter season. Our yotes tend to be bigger, brushy colored with not so white bellies and not as silky as the valuable ones. We do have some $80 yotes but we have the less than $5 yote so most averages from eastern WI struggle to hit $330-$35 in a strong market.
Bryce
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Post by northof50 on Dec 25, 2018 22:59:49 GMT -6
Very early, no snow, no good food intake in Oct -Nov when the hair was growing in.. therefor the break in hair follicle denisity being uniform
15 Oct-to Nov=2 grade
mid Nov 1-2 grade
after 15 Nov 1 grade
now who knows?
follow Ryan.s utube NAFA auction broadcast and look where his 250+ pre-Christmas yotes did in the auction... look how many graded 11 and how few got into the 1 grade
and now's it's Boxing Day in Canada our own Black Friday in sales
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Post by flathead40 on Dec 26, 2018 22:44:46 GMT -6
You ever get up by The Pas?
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Post by northof50 on Dec 28, 2018 11:11:48 GMT -6
The trappers association has their convention there this April in The Pas...but it's during rat season.
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Post by flathead40 on Dec 28, 2018 14:29:55 GMT -6
Fished a couple hours north of there once. Had a great trip even with motor trouble. There's a shop in the pas, busted there butts to get us parts and back on the water. Great guys, more friendly and helpful than a guy would have a right to expect. Really enjoyed that part of your country.
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Post by trappnman on Dec 29, 2018 10:12:20 GMT -6
No shortage of food here, but any time I've tried to harvest coyotes in late Dec and Jan, the % of fur breakdown is quite high. I think it's more tis the season than anything...
Bryce, it would take an outstanding collection of MN/WI coyotes to average in the 30s, and I don't think it could be done with any quantity of trapline run coyotes. I had almost 50% of my coyotes caught after Nov 10th- and I still didn't average that and I think, and I'm a pretty good judge of what I have, I couldn't have done better anywhere else.
Now, if I threw out my bottom 2 grades- the flat ones, the rubbed ones, the bad colored ones- ($5 and $8 respectively) which was 11% of my total take- I averaged about $33.
The window of coyotes-further complicated by weather concerns, is laughably small.
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Post by bblwi on Jan 3, 2019 22:31:38 GMT -6
Your right Steve, just too many wire haired brownish yellow bellied yotes around here. The 2-5 dollar ones can lower an average in a hurry.
We had a small sale in our district about 8 years ago and one of the guys had been to ND and brought back 8-10 western ND yotes. His brother had about 6-7 WI yotes from just north of Green Bay. Wow what a difference when you can see them laying next to each other. This was when the yote market was low and thes ND yotes just about tripled the others.
Bryce
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Post by trappnman on Jan 4, 2019 11:58:28 GMT -6
I kept one to get tanned my first year in WY. I was caught 1st week of October- and its twice the best coyote I've taken here. Pale, White belly even early you could bury your hand in- and the rancher says " Why those aren't even furred up!"
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Post by northof50 on Jan 11, 2019 19:46:26 GMT -6
I remember seeing that one.
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