Calling yotes in heavy brush.

[HappyPlumber]

Do yotes respond to calling the same way in heavy swanp that they do in open areas? Would a person call the same way in heavy swamp that you would in open areas? HP

[Wiley]

Describe your swamps. Are they thick reeds that make travel dificult even for a coyote. Are they frozen? Are they willows? Descibe the habitat. I haven't called many swamps per say but I might have some ideas if you can describe the habitat.


~SH~

[DaveLyons]

Wiley,

I don't know about Happy. But here they are mostly thick Cedar Swamps. Good Deer yards. Some of them unless your on your knees you can't see more then 50 yards. Can you draw them out of these swamps?

Dave

[HappyPlumber]

Wiley, I would say it's a lot like what David says. Some of these same swamps can have a lot of tall grass mixed in as well. When the weather is warm you're walking in water, in the winter it's ice and snow. All the critters like it because there is feed and they can get away from the elements. Places like this is where deer yard up for the winter. When it gets really cold in the winter and the swamps freeze up the animals move in. HP

[DaveLyons]

Another location around myself is thick river bottoms with cedars going about 50-100 yrds off the river and then going into Big Hardwoods. One spot I can think of there is an old logging trial right along the river and I have trapped several greyfox and coyotes off these kinds of trials. Just don't know how you would set up to call in the bottoms.

Dave

[Wiley]

Not having called swampy type areas, I could only recommend using the strategies that Steve and I outlined under the "setup" thread. I'd have to see this habitat in order to give worthwhile advice. I just hate to give advise without seeing the swamps you are talking about. If coyotes are there, they can be called but it may take a "process of elimination" system to figure out the strategy and which sounds to use.

Some guys call from ladders in heavy, dense cover.


~SH~

[richc]

Coyotes come real quick back in the brush, but it is real easy for them to get down-wind,catch your scent and leave without your knowing that you called anything. You may have to cheat a little and set an electronic caller cross-wind of your hidey hole. Coyotes love to come out to the edge of those cedars and look for source of the sound.

[HappyPlumber]

Rich, Thank you much. Because of you I think I hit on something that would work great for our area. I think a tree stand like we use for deer hunting with a remote caller on the ground with fox urine would make a dandy set-up. HP