hunting watermelon fields?

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bamayote23

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Hello everyone!

i have a question. lately i have stopped hunting and started back on bass fishing, but im wanting to get back out and hunt some more right now.

alot of my usual hunting land is gone right now, because my family plants about 20-30 acres of watermelons right now. so i was wondering whether i could hunt in these fields, even though they have produce in them. im not sure whether it will work because of all the recent activity with the tractors, but i really want to get back out and try to get one.
thanks
GOD BLESS
Luke
 
thats what i thought, we always have problems with them eating them, but i was wondering since they have plenty of food right now, and with all the recent tractor activity in the fields, will they even bother coming out during the day? i cant night hunt here
 
Originally Posted By: chazwho2My experience is tractors don't bother coyotes one bit, as long as the tractor isn't shooting at them every day.
+1

When I am out riding my ATV and see a coyote, they tend to ignore me until I stop the ATV, then they run.
Like Chaz, I also believe critters become accustom to equipment running in the fields and trucks on the roads, etc.

I'd go hunting Luke!! Keep us posted!!
 
When I was a kid, coyotes used to come out and follow the
tractor while we were cutting or plowing. We were stirring
up all the rodents. It was an easy feast for them and easy
coyote control for us. We always had the .22 on the tractor

That was back in the good old days when there was a small
bounty on yotes. Had to turn in the ears. Seems to me the
bounty was like $3 or $5.

But I sure didn't know yotes like watermelon.
 
It was in the news last summer in west TN, coyotes were destroying a lot of the watermellon crops there, farmers who were raising them to sell lost a lot of their harvest,----------coyotes seem to eat everything, that is how they survive I think
 
Once a coyote tastes watermellon it's like coyote meth, they can't stay away. In the winter I like to park by tractors on field roads, and the coyotes walk right by the truck paying no attention to it and me.

Shayne
 
Dang. I may have to plant a field of melons.
Just never knew they liked fruit of any kind.

Used to be a watermelon farm down by the river. They gave
up after 1 flood to many sent the melons down the river.
 
One of the better area's to hunt are agricultural areas of any kind. Out here in Arizona, we grow Cotton, Citris, Melons, Lettuce ect.

Now, the coyotes sure don't eat the cotton, but they mouse like crazy in thse fields.

They do eat just about anything else they can get to, including dried up mequite pods.

Coyote's will frequest the Melon patches not just for the Melons, but for the other little critters like mice and such that they'll eat. Should be a pretty good little area to hunt.

I've hit the melon fields AFTER the Melons were ripe, and DIDN'T call a single thing in. After really looking closely, the coyote poo was LOADED with Musk Melon and was orange. I guess their bellies were so full of Melon, they really didn't feel hungry enough to come into the call.
 
I've heard Coyotes love watermelons. I'm getting some to spread out near our stands in July when they really start harvesting them here, figured it's worth a shot....
 
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Last few years we have had a local farmer plant several acres of watermelons. I do see the coyotes at times in the fields along with deer and raccoons. But the doves really flock to the fields. In the fall after harvest there will be thousands of watermelons that were broken or to small. The farmer will come in with a bush hog and chop them up and it becomes a dove hunters dream!
 
Bring a sharp knife and a jigger of salt! If the dogs don't come in, then slice you a good piece of that melon. Better than what I got here.....heat, humidity, mosquitos and no dogs!
 
Last year on my uncles farm the coyotes dicovered the watermelons and also went to pullin up his corn by the stalks for some corn on the cob.
 
Yeah, I have a friend who's had his family's watermelons devastated by coyotes for the past two summers! I almost wouldn't have believed him but I'd read on here about it a few times before then. About the field having had tractor activity on it recently, so long as the coyotes don't associate tractors with getting shot at you should be ok. My uncle has hunted a local canyon that is used as a pit and show area for a big 4wd competition/festival less than a week latter and called a double and a triple from the opposite sides of the canyon.
 


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