I have a friend that has called me to help him with his coyote problem on his land. I do not have electronic calls-or reed calls for that matter nor any decoys. How effective do you think bait would be? (it is legal to bait) How long do you think it would take for it to be found?

Also, for you full time yote hunters, do you think it would be of any benefit for me to buya reed call? I have no experience with one but I can make some kind of noise with it. I do not want to spend the money for electronic calls.

Thanks in advance for any help

Hey man, baiting is leagal in some states, but I don"t know where you live. If your not going to get into dog hunting wholehog you don"t need an E-caller. If you can make a good set up, play the wind, sun and cover in your faver, calling will be much easyer. Baiting can be hard becouse they will tend to hit bait after dark.

I was thinking about this also. I was wondering if a coyote would come in to a pile of canned dog food? I heard someone say once that to get pictures of a big cat on a game camera they put out a big pile of catnip and it worked. That made me think, well cougars and bobcats are still just cats so maybe that makes sense. Coyotes are still just dogs so why not try some tasty canned Pedigree? Or maybe leftovers fromthe steak restaurant? What's the most widely used kind of bait for coyote?

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!!