If I had to choose 1 of those 3, I'd go with fish. Especially if it has its guts still. I kept the liver from the last deer I shot for bait as well as the entire carcass. Just have to tie it to a tree so they don't run off with it.
I know guys that trapped that kept carcasses after they skinned them out as used to freeze them...they would use that for bait. Years ago I knew a trapper that worked or was licensed by the state of Maine to snare coyotes. He used to stake a frozen carcass( beaver mostly) out on small ponds or by a frozen section of river. He would then use no kill snare sets around it. If the pelts he had hanging in his spreader shed were any indication it seemed to work. I don't know if Maine sanctions that anymore...like I said it was years back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Here in MN coyote are unprotected and are fair game year round. My basic plan is to set up in a ground blind on the edge of a cut bean field, use an electronic call and a Mojo critter decoy to reel em in. Then I'd like to set out some meat staked down near the decoy they will stop and either nibble on there or try to yank it off into the woods and eat. Either way the coyote is 20-30 yards standing still enough to take a confident shot with my bow. My plan seems simple enough on paper
Sounds like a fun plan ^^^. Maybe try at dawn or dusk and use a coyote howl to draw them in rather than a distress call? I know just sitting bait would probably work good too. Has anyone ever tried carp for bait? I figure if i can shoot 5-10carp and save them thatd make a nice pile of attractant
I have heard you tie a rope around a live chickens leg and stake it down to the ground and let it run around.
As skittish as most of the coyotes I've seen are, I would imagine something closer to a natural food source would be best. I'm sure any food would work, but wonder if they wouldn't be more at ease coming in to a scent that is more normal to them.
I have always had a hard time getting them to come to deer carcasses during the daylight hours. Most of the coyotes I kill, I have to call them in. But it would be sweet if your plan works. Let us know what happens
i got into calling coyotes last year bought a electronic call and decoy a brand new ar-15 and had no luck called in one yote and called in my uncles dogs one sit. i tryed using bait once, my girlfriend has goats and sheep and one of the sheep died while giving birth and i loaded it up and set it out with a trail cam on it. had a few pics of yotes coming up to it at night and would walk right up to it and smell it but not eat it. the turkey vulchers come and ate nearly all of it. after that i had a buddy tell me that old yotes wont eat anything they think shouldnt be there or is out of place from the norm.
This reminds me of an article I read in Field and Stream last year. It said to take a decoy or 3-d target deer and take (if any) the antlers out. Then set it near the center of a frozen pond halfway buried in snow. Put your remote distress call with it. Then set up so your hunting a crosswind. Looks like an injured deer stuck in the pond. I'd love to try this sometime this winter. I might even have some tip-ups out there too. I've called them in with a bleat can before, works good and everyone has one. Just bleat like crazy. I'd like to try the decoy but soak a rag or something other than my target it doe P. Figured that way I'd have a visual, scent, and noise attractant.
Finks has a great new product called a predator stick, similar to an inscent stick u light it and stick it in the ground. It let's off a fresh kill scent and the coyotes come a runnin, also works great as a cover scent to disguise the hunter.
We use road kill. I was reading it somewhere online that If you take freezer burned meat or road kill meat(blood too) and throw it in a 5 gal bucket with water and let it freeze. Put it in a field and watch. They said when the sun starts to melt the ice, it gives off the sent of blood and the coyotes will try to get the meat out of the ice. I have not done this.
Ive used chicken we got from a mink farm. Its ground up and frozen in blocks. We try to use anything ground up, this way they cant tear off a chunk and chew on it for days who knows where.
When I had more time, I would go to the local grocery store and they would give me their scrap barrel full of the days trimmings. It was free and worked very well. One time the coyotes even dined on expired/freezer burned lobster.
Gosse guts. I'm an avid waterfowl hunter and save goose guts in a shed after wx stays below freezing during the day. Thaw a portion, set it out near call speaker. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. We don't start calling till after the waterfowl season has ended in late Jan. Out here, calling the same spot more than once a year is a waste of time. ya might get away with it twice if ya call months apart. They get call wise real fast. Have had them in bow range on many occassions, but just started with a bow last March. Might take a crack at'em later this winter.
