Anyone Calling in Coyotes Yet?

[Jumpshootin']

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck calling in coyotes yet? I'm going to go after them next weekend over in Kalkaska county. I want to give them a try before smallgame, duck, and deer seasons take up my time until January.

[lynx/cat-trapper]

JSTN....Why hunt coyotes now??? They dont prime dependant on temp but on day/night length... Unless I have a "reason" to call em, I never go out calling them till Oct 15th...any earlier and I feel a person is not only wasting their time but fur also.
lynxcat

[Jumpshootin']

To get rid of them. I don't care about the pelts. I want to keep them away from my dogs.

[bearboyluvsQDM]

I happened to be out scouting for some deer on our property near ReedCity(9/15).While I was sitting in one of our shanties glassing for deer, I noticed my predator call on the floor.So I gave it a couple squeels and then stopped.About 15 minutes later 2 nice sized coyotes came out of the pines were searching all over the area for the source of the sounds.I was just wondering.What do you mean keep the yotes away from your dogs?I have also seen several yotes at my bear baits in Lake and Osceola counties.

[Askel]

Coyote look to dogs at times as just another food source in their chain. Mostly the small yappers. Over the years I have had many calls from farmers to eradicate coyotes taking out their dogs and cats besides some of there calves.

[NEMichsportsman]

I havent even got my furbearing license yet...but the last three weekends I have had broad daylight sightings. I often hear them when I am hunting but have never just happened across them like I have lately. Just an interesting thing I have noticed, not sure what it means.

jp

[Jumpshootin']

You can hunt coyote on a small game license providing it is during daylight hours, no dogs, no bait.
What I mean by keeping them away from the dogs is just as ASKEL said. Two years ago in December while grouse hunting in Kalkaska County 7 coyotes tried to take down my 100lbs. Lab.
I've seen their tracks in the snow where they've jumped the fence into my back yard and circled my kennel shed trying to get at a litter of beagle pups. On numerous occasions while hunting hares with the beagles they've 'packed' right in with the hounds in an attempt to cut one of the dogs out of the group.
A coyote will eat ANYTHING that it or the pack can over-power and kill.
Find a coyote den and you'll see what they are eating. You're apt to find the remains of cats, dogs, barnyard fowl, turkeys, etc..
There was a time when fur prices were good and Michigan had a bounty on coyote. You never saw one back then. But thanks to the bunny huggers we have them in abundance in every county.

[bearboyluvsQDM]

I had no idea that coyotes were a threat to dogs! Thanks for clearing that up.

[farmlegend]

Amen, Jumpshootin'.

I believe we're now up to our eyeballs in coyotes. I see them in the winter during the day while driving down the interstate. A retired biology teacher photographed one in his back yard in Livonia this year. When trains blow their horns as they pass through Northville, coyotes to the west answer them. I see them every single year from treestands when bowhunting my farm in Hillsdale county.

I am impressed by you guys that call them and hunt them down. Sounds like a great winter activity.

Glad to hear from this forum that you're alive and well and enjoying the outdoors in the Interlochen area!

Give me a call or e-mail me when you get a chance.

Your old buddy,

Dan Timmons
Days 734.432.2659
Evenings 248.347.2440
timmondk@cs.com

[Jumpshootin']

Good GOD Dan, I had a feeling it was you since stopping by your folks to talk to your dad when I was down there last year. Say hello to him for me. I think about him often. Remember the trout stream near Mesick where he took us camping to fish and grouse hunt? I live 8 miles from there. My son and I fish it every spring, and I hunt grouse along it, and jumpshoot woodducks off the beaver ponds in the fall.
Good to hear from you. I happy for you in that you have a nice place to hunt down there in Hillsdale.
I'll give you a call this weekend. Maybe I'll get you to come up here this fall for some duck hunting with the Lab, or some squirrel hunting with my little Treeing Feist dogs.
Take Care,
Jeff

[Askel]

Living here in Central IL (I hate it) we are flat out over run with them. I live in a subdivision and see them all the time. Went to get a paper the other morning and had one run out in front of me setting the fuzz on a rabbit. Just purchased a new M15A4 Armalite .223 carbine with the works. Should add a little more fun to the hunt. They get quite large here too. It's not unusual to call in 2 or 3 at a time. Red fox are starting to show up in the neighborhood also. One got hit up the street the other day. Don't know if they'll last with all the coyote.

[coonbait]

So whats everyone using on the yotes this season? I would like to compare. Heh, maybe ill take out the 30-06 (just kidding) And is any trapping them this season?

[Askel]

30-06 you say. Not a bad idea. I have hunted them with my garand many a time in the past. It was alot of fun too. Got a friend of mine who has used a bow on occassion.

[Chuck]

Where I hunt they seem to be getting thicker. I have been wanting to hunt them to help thin them out. As I see more yotes I see less turkey and deer. The area I hunted last year I heard the howling every morning for a few weeks straight. Ive found more than a few dead deer in january. The deer were having a hard time becouse the snow was hard paked but still deep. The deer would break threw but the yotes could run on topp.

It would be neat to have a few yote pelts around too.

[Askel]

If you know where your deer are yarding up for the winter it is a sure bet you'll find the coyote there with them. It is near impossible to thin them out here. You shoot one or two and it seems there are twice as many to replace them. I ussually have some of the guys here save me their gut piles and I use them for bait too. A fawns bleat is another thing that you can use to atract them. Although I have called in an angry doe before.