Coyote Bait
 

Anyone bait coyotes and what do you use for bait? Is there a certain bait that coyotes will come to but may not interest coons? How much bait do you need to attract a pack? Do you out bait sites in the bush or in fields? What time of day do you watch bait sites? Thanks, Spence.

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If legal use a road kill deer. Drag it off onto the woods, and open up the guts. The yotes will find it in a day or two. As for the time to check. Well I've had yotes come into my gut piles all different time of the day and night. Mostly night is when they hit it though.

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I have called in coyotes and skinned them and came back the next morning to find other coyotes eating their carcass.
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i like to build a small chicken coop. it seems to work best early mornings or just before dark

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Fill a Mason jar with chicken guts. Then set the jar out in the sun for a few weeks. Then just remove lid when hunting. Be sure to set upwind of the bait!
I don't know how well it would work this time of year, but in northern Michigan during January and February it brings them in.

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Stake a roadkilled house cat down then set traps at scent post sets 40 to 50 feet away from the cat.

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cat food or rabbit guts or better yet a live rabbit staked to the ground

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i don't know about watching the bait, but i use bever carcasses. i trap with them, and it works fairly well. might as well use the whole beaver, not just the pelt. but usually night works for coyotes, but you can also catch them in the morning, and evening. i've also seen coyotes walking around in the middle of the day.

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I've heard that small children make good bait ,
but it probably isn't legal . Nevermind ... :eek: [:-] :(

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Shoot a couple of rabbits, tie them behind a truck or 4-wheeler, and drag'em up and down the road that morning. Come back and call coyotes that evening. They are more likely to buy the wounded rabbit gig if they see and smell rabbit.

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A landowner that lets us hunt on his land, uses chickens. He hangs them up from a tree limb, high enough that the coyotes have to stand on their hind legs or jump for them. He usually puts them just inside the woods near some fields.

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You might want to caution your landowner friend to check the laws regarding the use of live bait , it isn't legal in many places .

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Sorry forgot to mention that they were already dead. He owns chicken houses and he uses the ones that die. I hunted about 80 yards from one, one day and the smell wasnt very pleasant.

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A friend of mine showed me a great way to bait a coyote, he showed me some video from a few of his coyote hunts I cant beleive how well it works he used turkey decoys put a flock of about 6 decoys together on the edge of a field he says you have to be quick on the trigger or you may end up having to buy a couple new decoys one of his videos shows a coyote run off with a decoy.

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What about a road kill rabbit and use a cotton tail in distress call. Anyone tried that? I have been running the roads trying to find a wabbit that fell victim to a car to try this out. Think it will work?

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It outta work great. Doesn't matter what condition the rabbit is in, it'll still smell like rabbit. All the coyote wants is an easy meal, and he'll come running when he thinks he's found one.