This is only my first year that I’ll try targeting cats, and I’m calling as live trapping a bobcat or coyote seems ridiculous, but I’ve found them in really bird filled areas. My best grouse spots all seem to have good cat sign.
The good marshy draws on the mountain from the draw leveling out for a bit, lots of brush, maybe downed timber. Last year I had one come to a call but stayed in the trees and it was really out of place. Hill top, dry flat, rock rim, down lower had good grouse and rabbit but his tracks(cut em on my way to the next set) went over a small saddle. Find on the other side a pond and big marsh! Didn’t flush anything but tweeties but they like those too.
I found a mama and kit last year also but they were crossing the road in a big timber cut by a bad logging company who logged and sprayed and left the land torn up and covered in slash. Nothing growing but weeds and prickly pears. No idea why the cats were there.
