Yeah I wouldn't surround a carcass with traps. When I used to bait, if I would have done that I would have caught hawks, owls, eagles, deer, coons...everything. Back in High School and College when I really hunted them. I essentiallly built a small, insulated fish house on wheels that I would haul out into a field. We would then go to the local grocery stores meat departments and they would gladly give us barrels full of scraps, expired meat, etc that they would have just paid the rendering trucks to haul away anyway. Dump these in a field and you have great hunting until its cleaned up. Sure other critters eat on it to, but we were very very succesful hunting these bait sites. Even better is if you can put it someplace where you can see it from your house so you can observe from the comfort of your home. When one shows up, let the high power bark. True, its not real sporting or hunting maybe, but if you just want to eliminate coyotes, it was the best method I knew of. Much more efficient than calling.
I was thinking about doing just that... I have a heated blind and as long and im warm and cozy, il sit over some carcass or meat/scraps until they show up. How long in advance should i bait? Or not bait until the day prior? Thanks.
We had access to enough meat that we dumped one big load in December and it lasted all winter. Depending on how much you have, I'd get it out there at least a week before you plan to start hunting. Most of our hunting was done on the full moon nights when there was snow. If you are limited on your bait, one trick that works is to put the scraps in a 5 gallon bucket and add water and let it freeze so you have a meatsicle and then dump this sicle out, that way they cant just grab a scrap and leave they need to work at it and your bait lasts longer. It was pretty fun when at 2am on a full moon night you saw the dark shadow of a coyote moveing across the snow towards your bait!
I'd like to try that.Except we don't get enough winter down here plus night hunting is illegal for anything expect coons.
A friend and I are going to be hunting them in Lee County quite a bit after this weekend. We're new to it as well but hoping we can make a dent at least.
Good luck to you. Ive hunted Lee County before and theres a lot more deer than here in Mchenry, guessing you guys have a lot of coyotes there as well.
