Coyote Bait

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BigN

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I'm sure some of you must have done this already but if you like to hunt coyotes over bait, I tried something new last week and it worked beautifully. On a recent ice fishing excursion, I brought home a 5 gallon pail full of pike, perch, and bass. I cleaned them and put the scraps of the cleaning back in the bucket and set it on the porch for disposal. It was very cold that week so I figured I had some time before it became necessary to get rid of it. By last weekend the bucket with the nastiness in it was also full of water, frozen solid. I had a brainstorm. I took the bucket into my coyote woods, found a good spot for the bait, tipped the bucket upside down and dropped the 5-gallon ice block of stink onto the ground. Over the next several days it started to melt slightly, and stink to high heaven. My treestand is not far away and I observed coyotes, martens, fishers, coons, and several creatures that I couldn't readily identify, all going to the bait to see what it was all about. I realize it's not that much of a discovery but just something to think about if you hunt varmints and also ice fish. Two birds (or varmints) with one stone, so to speak.
 
look at the top of this forum at teh baiting sticky. lots of info in there. I just use all the meat like scraps after dinner from my house and my parents and pile em into a bucket until its close to full. Ice fishing hasn't been an option here but I used to do that last year too.
 
If you mix in some burlap bags and leave it in the bucket tied down it will last a longer. The coyotes and lions will drag it away otherwise.
 
Originally Posted By: eric270What is this thing you refer to as 'Ice fishing'? I cant tell if its still fall or already spring!

I hear that. I'm waiting on a big blizzard at the last minute before spring break.
 
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