Coyote bait?

[lcp]

I was wondering while waiting on Deer season to provide a gut pile, what would be a cheap, readily available substitute?

Bag of dog food?, cat food?

whats your thoughts?

 

[frozenbutt]

Road killed deer.

 

[SkyPup]

I use armadillos for bait and they work real well, the 'yotes especially like the leftover exoskeleton even weeks after the flesh and tissues are gone.

 

[Scott Sewall]

Get cattle carcasses from ranchers, wild hogs if you have them up there, and roadkill deer like frozen said.

 

[hillman]

wrong time of year, but beaver carcases work great. If you know a trapper doing damage control work he may be able to hook you up. Pigs from a confinement would be another...Russ

 

[RJM Acres]

old spam or cheap canned dog food
the smellier the better.

 

[coyotex]

My personal recipe for baiting,,,Piles of dry dog food,,weeks before i hunt a area.

WHEN you are getting ready to hunt it,,spread it out and seperate it,a couple here,few there...if not they will grab a mouthful and head back to cover.

Hope this helps.

X

 

[DoubleUp]

Seems to me part of your baiting question hinges on where you intend to bait. Will you be close to home or have to drive a ways?

If close to home, as in my case, I can bait them right in my back yard which is surrounded by a 150 acre field. I can tend the bait daily, and don't want stinking and rotting carcases in my yard. So I use dry dog food, table scraps, fruit, etc. So far, I haven't found much they won't eat and that's a fact.

Now, if you aren't fortunate enough to be able to bait close, then you'll need a bigger bait pile and something you don't tend every day. All the suggestions already made above will work. Hope it works out for ya.

 

[frozenbutt]

Originally Posted By: hillmanwrong time of year, but beaver carcases work great. If you know a trapper doing damage control work he may be able to hook you up. Pigs from a confinement would be another...Russ

They do love the beaver. Use it when I got it. Havn't had many damage control calls yet this year. Usally throw a couple in the freezer to use this time of year.

With the fields about to start coming out the road killed deer numbers should start to go up.

 

[SkyPup]

I'll let ya all in on my top secret coyote bait:

WATERMELON

Have shot quite a few over the years over cracked open watermelons

 

[DoubleUp]

SkyPup, I found the same thing plus they like cantaloupe too.

 

[hillman]

Not suprised, I live in an area that grows a ton of melons here in Iowa and they sure go after them.....Russ