I see you're a turkey hunter, probably have a mouth call?? If you do, with most mouth calls for turkeys you can make a decent rabbit in distress call. Also, just making a distressed turkey call can be successful. So you may have all the tools you need already. As for baiting, it's effective up here but has it's problems. I don't bait personally, might start next year, but have a few buddies that do. We hunt mainly in the winter months so use deer remains from butcher shops. With whatever bait, the problem is human scent. Usually you have to establish the bait, or put it out and the coyotes won't touch it until the human scent is gone, possibly up to weeks. The other problem is taking a coyote over the bait, my buddy had a few senarios happen to him this year. First he shot a coyote and decided to leave it lay to not spread human scent near the bait, the other coyotes refused to come to the bait and stayedout of sightbarking continually. (SinceMichigan is mostly wooded, this may not be as big of a problem if you're hunting open county) Then he went and got the coyote and then the coyotes wouldn't enter due to scent. I think bait is a good tool, but you'd need multiple set-ups to do any damage in numbers on a property unless you're in wide open country and can take them entering the area. The other problem is coyotes hitting bait after dark, up here we hunt at night with snow cover, ends that problem!!