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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 11:56:59 GMT -6
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Post by trappnman on Dec 31, 2015 9:42:09 GMT -6
looks like you are for sure enjoying yourself!
I HATE snow trapping, but it is educational.
for the few times I've made the mafia set, I've done ok with it-
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 10:16:19 GMT -6
looks like you are for sure enjoying yourself! I HATE snow trapping, but it is educational. for the few times I've made the mafia set, I've done ok with it- Yes I am enjoying myself and buying the quad, as I did the sled really helped me. My enjoyment has changed from a young man to present where now I love the challenge and thought process rather then the repetition and numbers. As can be seen in the 2nd half of the video, I'm always looking to see why something happened especially this scenario because of the icy snow. I wanted to know why I caught that coyote. After all, my wife's gauge showed the 4' of snow to be 1.5" of water then it froze. This coyote was a great example of how a coyote, even with these icy snow conditions covering and sealing-off the scent to a good degree can be stopped dead in her tracks, swing around, and work the set! Also, was figuring out how she got caught working the set when she was standing on top of the snow! The scent must have been defused enough by the frozen snow that she had to dig in the general vicinity of the scent which included the trap which caught her. Just to mention the degree of the icy snow conditions. The City sent out crews after the streets were plowed to remove the frozen boulders from folks driveways. This has NEVER happened before and I spoke to the guy doing my Court and he said that this was one of the very worst snows because of the unusually high water content and then quick freeze conditions. |
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Post by trappnman on Dec 31, 2015 11:29:38 GMT -6
had an interesting track incident one year when trapping water in winter. A hill road ran along the hill, dropping off into a chopped corn field, where the road continued back a far whack along the hill, but at edge of corn. 5-6" fresh snow. As I started down the road, a fresh set of tracks came up from the side of the road, from the corn, and then crossed the blacktop road above. I was curious, so backtracked the trail down the side of the hill into the corn, where the tracks made a wide circle in the corn, coming back to the hill road 50' or so from where he came in on top, then going down along the corn and away so the coyote was coming along the bottom on the road no problem, came to the exit hill and started up- got almost to the top, veered down the hill, made a big circle, then came back up the side almost to where he started. Why? what caused this? he wasn't running, nor hunting, nor by tracks spooked in anyway- yet went out of his way in tougher going seems like needless energy- but I know he had a reason...just one of those things I wonder about as to the why that's how I felt on the waterline this year- not there with coyotes yet  |
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Post by RdFx on Dec 31, 2015 15:44:31 GMT -6
Thanks for posting never, ive had some similar instances where i followed yotes to figure out where and why they went places. I had a spot where yotes crossed in the middle of a cut corn field and followed down hill in a wide draw situation. I would never have thought the yotes were going that way as logging road was at bottom of draw and i was catching yotes there. After a light snow i seen where this big footed yote was going across corn field. I made a flat set downwind of a row of cut stalks' lured with my own gland lure. I used q-tip dipped and hollowed out corn stalk and put inside.... no urine. That set sat there for three weeks yote came through at least three times never paused , just keep booking down toward the draw and i wasnt picking up any yotes there, just skunks, badgers, coon which were plugging sets. After four weeks which also dumped 6 inches of snow i caught the big yote (53#s) male. I tracked him coming up past set and he winded the lure and turned and came about 25 yds straight to set and got nabbed. The corn stalk was covered with snow also. Just like yr yote never, he smelled through all that snow and after four weeks... never underestimate the yotes smeller!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 16:21:22 GMT -6
Good post yourself Rdfx! What you described with the big coyote is exactly what I've referred to on this board as "gleaning". You waited him out and put the squeeze on him without having the opportunity to catch numbers at that location. One of my problems is I get itchy-feet after 10-14 nights but this year, since I was having so many coyotes uninterested(similar to your example), I stayed up to 5-6 nights longer. It did help I have to say! I've always had a few properties where there were coyote, even a family, and for the duration I was there, again from 10-14 nights, no interest. No avoidance, just no interest! This year I either had'em jumping in right off the bat OR acted like I wasn't there. The problem appeared huge compared to other years because of the real increase in the number of properties this was happening on. It made me think I was losing my coyote trapping brain as I drove from one property to the next!  HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
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