Draw stations

[stickbowhntr]

How many of you use them? How do you make yours? What do you use. Are they placed randomly thru your trapping areas or do you look for certian things to set them up initially?Lots of places they could be put along my lines but am sure some things just make them better ( locations) what are they( yes the travelways) but wich are best ? How do you determine? I could almost use one on every piece of property but that isn't really needed or feasable for me.

[jsevering]

like to make my call stations in thick brush patches.... up wind of fairly open dispersal routes like an open power line, river flat or off to the upwind side of a notch with connecting ridge lines and and access road cutting through ....that i can access in the winter... dont like to lug carcases and catches too awful far....if i dont have to.....

generally use what im trapping and skinning at the time ... jim

[thebeav2]

I never had any luck with large draw staions untill the snow flew.Before that time they were worthless.

[Hornhunter]

Like the beav says, but our moose hunt ends just before the early K9 season. Any dead moose attract the yotes like a magnet.
Couple years ago i put out 3 moose heads 3 nights before the season. I had good luck getting coyotes attention, and caught a few along the roads. Last year I had a bunch of pigs heads. Had some luck, but not alot.
Still I'd go for placing large baits before the season. If nothing else ravens attract alot of attention.

[rk660]

Driving back from coon line at night once i jumped a coyote off a dead deer on road. I knew there was a great big 8' culver below so for the hell of it I drug the deer down into culvert, and 1/2 assed covered a coon trap at mouth and blocked with debris. Most 14 year first timers would have laughed at the set. In a weeks time I caught 3 coyotes there, LOL.

[bobwendt]

I never let a roadkill deer go to waste if it is close to anything at all I can drag it too. I`ve wired them onto the ball and bounced then a mile at times, as hard as I can bounce them, don`t want the coyoptes to lose track of where it wentr( wendt, lol). and don`t think bobcats won`t eat dead deer too, sometimes so old dead you can`t believe it. usually I keep an eye on a roadkill till they find him and open the butt up. then I do the drag-a-rooney and go to catching easy stuff. par is 6-8 coyotes and a cat before they eat him all up or I catch all the locals, about 3-4 runs at the most as I gang set them and wait to do it till it`s easy to see everyone wants a piece of arse.

[rk660]

another job if visiting the W.L.L (Wendt Long Line)....carcass dragger, LOL

[trappnman]

Bait piles drive me crazy. That is, they sure aren't consistent- and by that I mean consitstently used by cooytes passing by.

Pig dumps, fast becoming rare and I no longer have any on my line- seemed to get used the most consistently. When I had a pig dump, it was a good producer and I could see signs of nightly visits. For the past 5-6 years, the pile has disappeared, but the location is still a good one.

Cattle dumps get worked very seldom- even in the dead of winter. Coyotes hang around, but there is little evidence of them feeding on the dead animals. Many, many times I see winter dumped calves, that are untouched all winter, even though coyote tracks come within inches of them. Yes, occasionally they do feed on them, but not near as often as I had thought they would.

Deer seem to be the most consistent attractant- deer scraps, compete carcassess are usually consummed. But even here, its odd. That is, many times its obvious the coyotes know a dead deer is there, but it stays untouched to one day they start on it, and its gone in a few days.

It all depends on how much other food they have.

Mixed carcass piles do well for me- rats, mink, coon, canines.

But even if they aren't feeding on them, they know piles are there and I've never seen where a carcass dump isn't a focal point and an attractant for them. Setting up the lanes and field edges to these dumps always pays off.

[17HMR]

Steve, Tha pig - cow thing is flipped here. I have seen pigs melt down to nothing w/o being touched at all, more often than not. have seen that happen with cattle too, but very rare. Deer might be there for three months not touched, but one day will be gone overnight. Had one deer in a loop that was slicked up over night with a 24 hour check, all that was left was the head and about 6 inches of neck.