newfielander
New member
Hi guys, I'm a newbie to the site, and I don't have a whole lot of coyotes under my belt either. I'm from Newfoundland Canada, and only the last 10 years or so have coyote hunting being available to us.
Anyway, I have only gotten 5 in my life! But love every minute of it!
This winter I'm not having much luck whatsoever! Our biggest problem we have here in Newfoundland is the weather, it's ALWAYS WINDY!!
But last evening I got a chance to go try my luck, I'm using an Electronic caller and I was set up, done some calling with no luck other than a big hawk came right up to me! About half an hour before dark, I thought I could hear a coyote howling a few miles back the highway from where my truck was, so I raced back to my truck, back out the highway to where I only guessed the coyotes might be. Snowshoed out to a small lake, set up with the wind to my back blowing out across the lake. Not knowing if I was in the right spot or even if I did really hear a coyote I turned on a 15-minute rabbit in distress I created on a computer and had it added to my caller. When the call sequence played through, and I never saw anything and by now I only had a few minutes of daylight left, I waited maybe a minute and played a female coyote howl, instantly a coyote answered me only maybe 300 yards away behind a bunch of woods to my left! I knew I never had any time to spare so I howled back, and all the crazy coyote would do was howel back at me. I sat there and waited and wondered what to try next and no matter what I played all it would do was howl back at me. I decide to shut up and not move even though it was getting dark, everything was white with snow so I said maybe if I stop calling it might think I'm gone and then it might come over to where I am to check out the area and I would see him on the lake because of the white snow.It kinda worked, it came to the shoreline of the lake, by the sounds of how close it was but I could not see it. I felt for sure it will walk the shoreline to investigate the area for coyote scent. I was wrong. I had no choice but to bail out and go home again with no coyote. WHAT DID I DO WRONG!!!
Anyway, I have only gotten 5 in my life! But love every minute of it!
This winter I'm not having much luck whatsoever! Our biggest problem we have here in Newfoundland is the weather, it's ALWAYS WINDY!!
But last evening I got a chance to go try my luck, I'm using an Electronic caller and I was set up, done some calling with no luck other than a big hawk came right up to me! About half an hour before dark, I thought I could hear a coyote howling a few miles back the highway from where my truck was, so I raced back to my truck, back out the highway to where I only guessed the coyotes might be. Snowshoed out to a small lake, set up with the wind to my back blowing out across the lake. Not knowing if I was in the right spot or even if I did really hear a coyote I turned on a 15-minute rabbit in distress I created on a computer and had it added to my caller. When the call sequence played through, and I never saw anything and by now I only had a few minutes of daylight left, I waited maybe a minute and played a female coyote howl, instantly a coyote answered me only maybe 300 yards away behind a bunch of woods to my left! I knew I never had any time to spare so I howled back, and all the crazy coyote would do was howel back at me. I sat there and waited and wondered what to try next and no matter what I played all it would do was howl back at me. I decide to shut up and not move even though it was getting dark, everything was white with snow so I said maybe if I stop calling it might think I'm gone and then it might come over to where I am to check out the area and I would see him on the lake because of the white snow.It kinda worked, it came to the shoreline of the lake, by the sounds of how close it was but I could not see it. I felt for sure it will walk the shoreline to investigate the area for coyote scent. I was wrong. I had no choice but to bail out and go home again with no coyote. WHAT DID I DO WRONG!!!