Coyote bait suspended above foothold

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itsarufflifehere

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Would coyote jump in air to reach bait and bite/pull to reach. Has any one tried or experieced.
Could people with joking responses, or tell me to shoot or just hire a pro trapper, please refrain.
I'm looking for honest experienced know how of this bait and foothold trap technique with no lures or bait in ground.
 
I have hung a beaver carcass a couple feet above the ground, it was frozen, the coyote didn't try to feed on it until weather warmed up and thawed the meat.They didn't spend much time checking it out until they could pull meat off. Than it didn't last long. Here we can't set a trap within 20 feet of exposed bait. So I have never tried a trap set under a bait.
Common to use a visual attractor above a trap for bobcat. Feather/wing or a shining CD on a string.
 
Your posts make no sense…why no lure or bait in the ground?
Would your scenario work? Possibly, but you’re apt to catch just about anything with exposed bait up to buzzards and birds of prey. Need to check your laws as well.
When trapping, I’m setting for a specific step from that coyote/cat/etc. I don’t want happen chance, I want to catch it.
If you don’t know how to trap, there are thousands of videos on making sets. My suggestion would be to keep it simple. A solid bedded trap with a small natural baking. Punch a hole at the base of the backing and put some bait in it, put your lure about 8-12” up and blend it in as natural as possible. Leave it be until it catches or you pull. Remember when trapping, less is more with lure.

This was set mainly for cats but would work for coyotes as well.
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Here’s a backed up pic…had to flag it due to power lines being trimmed and didn’t want it run over.
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I caught the next morning.

For the remake I dug up a small clump of broomsedge and put it where the original bait hole was, put the trap back in its original bed and added a little lure to the broomsedge. I put a couple dirt clods on either side of the trap to get whatever came to step on the pan and not everywhere but. I had another cat the next morning.
 
spotstalkshoot said:
I have hung a beaver carcass a couple feet above the ground, it was frozen, the coyote didn't try to feed on it until weather warmed up and thawed the meat.They didn't spend much time checking it out until they could pull meat off. Than it didn't last long. Here we can't set a trap within 20 feet of exposed bait. So I have never tried a trap set under a bait.
Common to use a visual attractor above a trap for bobcat. Feather/wing or a shining CD on a string.
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Thanks for reply, I was thinking they would jump to bite multiple times and come down on a foothold. I'll have to see regs here in Ohio, but I'm pretty sure coyote are considered a nuisance animal and fur bearer restrictions don't apply.
 
Spurchaser said:
Your posts make no sense…why no lure or bait in the ground?
Would your scenario work? Possibly, but you’re apt to catch just about anything with exposed bait up to buzzards and birds of prey. Need to check your laws as well.
When trapping, I’m setting for a specific step from that coyote/cat/etc. I don’t want happen chance, I want to catch it.
If you don’t know how to trap, there are thousands of videos on making sets. My suggestion would be to keep it simple. A solid bedded trap with a small natural baking. Punch a hole at the base of the backing and put some bait in it, put your lure about 8-12” up and blend it in as natural as possible. Leave it be until it catches or you pull. Remember when trapping, less is more with lure.

This was set mainly for cats but would work for coyotes as well.
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Here’s a backed up pic…had to flag it due to power lines being trimmed and didn’t want it run over.
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I caught the next morning.

For the remake I dug up a small clump of broomsedge and put it where the original bait hole was, put the trap back in its original bed and added a little lure to the broomsedge. I put a couple dirt clods on either side of the trap to get whatever came to step on the pan and not everywhere but. I had another cat the next morning.
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Thanks for reply, I'm just thinking hanging bait would avoid non target interest in location, and scent would travel further.
am not a professional hunter or trapper, just would like to reduce numbers of coyote so they don't get too comfortable on my property. Am afraid to use urine, it really attracts deer. Had a farmer tell me fresh turned topsoil is an attractant
 
Deer will check out ANYTHING, lol. I always plan on 25% of my sets to be tripped by deer on the first check. It happens.
If you have known coyotes walking a road/trail, make multiple sets. I use MB550/450’s and they don’t hold a deer.
You can use a catch pole to release about everything. I’ve released about every incidental there is including buzzards and birds of prey by just laying the catch pole on their backs. We even put a loose hose clamp above a 2yr old gobblers spur once and the landowner got him on camera about 3yrs later laughing about the “banded” bird.
 
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