My wife asked me to "bait" some hummingbirds, said her flowers were not attracting any. I told her she would have to watch all the time. This morning I cooked up some sugar water put out a feeder. She went grocery shopping, I watched 4 work the feeder. I set a deer camera 10' away, set to video. Hope I have some video to show her. Have the binos out for her.

I've used them off an on over the years and yes they do work pretty well. Back when you could find them for about a $1/can, I loaded up but my stash has been gone for a few years. Every now and then if I find them on sale I'll snag a few cans

I just noticed this forum/thread? Any way I put some blood meal in a gallon jug and added water until I had the texture right (thick) and made a blood trail around a big timber finger and stopped where I could get a good shot from 200 yards up the hill by a graveyard. I poured out two cans of dog food and went up to my picnic table rest.Sitting in the shade, rifle on a bipod I was interrupted in less than 20 minutes with 3 coyotes speed trailing down my "blood" trail and they stopped immediately at the dog food and started chowing down. One shot coyote dead and the other two got away by improving their 100 yard dash numbers. Had to go down there and pick up the coyote, hang a motion sensored green light and pour out two more cans of dog food. I went home just before dark but my grandson stayed till 11pm. he got 4 raccoons! I have done the blood meal blood trail before, works pretty good. This happened back in May so no pictures.

rickt300:

Welcome to the baiting forum. Thanks for sharing your baiting experience. Sounds like it worked pretty good for you.

Things have been slow for me lately. I haven't seen or heard coyotes on or near my property in over a month. I have several does and fawns around, and black bears have been passing through about every 2 weeks. I'm getting weary of checking motion alarms in the middle of the night just to see a neighbor cat or deer.

I'll put some bait out soon and see if I can draw in any coyotes.

The blood trail is the kicker. They find it and they follow it. Used Sta Green blood meal last time. It all works.

I haven't tried making blood trails, but I have made bait trails that lead from where I expect them to pass through, to my bait pile. I've made bait trails with crumbled old smoked salmon, crumbled bits of rotisserie chicken, thanksgiving turkey scraps and slop, cat food, etc. I've gotten a few this way over the years. Now I usually just put all the bait on the bait pile, but depending on time and place I may still make a trail to the bait pile.

Welcome to the baiting thread. This has been going strong for several years, a lot of good guys here with solid tactics. Hope you continue to join in, and thank you for the info about blood meal.