Northern PA coyote hunting

Beagler, those numbers sound good, but if you knew how many hours i spent out there this year they are not good per stand averages.... plus this year i got the chance to hunt a few areas where the yotes have been big problems.. 2 of them died due to being to comfortable raiding the hen house (literally) so it was under somewhat controlled conditions...since I am the only one allowed to hunt 3 or 4 of these spots.... I got one on the weekend of new years that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time... I was fox hunting. hopefully a few of the pics will be in one of our new catalogs for this fall, or winter.....
 
there are a ton of possibilities that govern what works, terrain, sounds, weather, day/night, wind, moon, time... you get the picture... anyway, I hunt the thickest cover i can during all daylight hours... the eastern coyotes seem to like the heavy cover and do not seem to want to leave it on a regular basis through the day. most all of my daylight hunting is shotgun areas.... never slam the car door, rack a shell, or any other metalic or loud noises..... this seems to be one thing i have had to pound into my partners head.... seems many forget the little things. i do wear scentblocker clothing.... not that i depend on it but... i got a good deal on it and lets face it if it helps even a little i will take whatever help i can get.

I wait a min. of 40 min at each stand.... and if i can not make a good approach with the wind in my favor i will skip a stand rather than make a bad one.... many guys I know will try it anyway.... I have had runs of 30 dry stands before getting any action at all.... but i have not called in anything at home... so i truthfully have to FORCE myself at times to keep hunting ....... not because i want to quit, but because it gets old after awhile not seeing or hearing anything. one thing i have learned is try ANYTHING once, or twice..... especially after a run of dry stands... if it works great, if not... its a great reason to try something else.
 
I wear scent lok head to toe, try to get in quit as possible and hunt cover areas that seem to be hot spots, Ive been at this for a few years now and am trying to be more serious about it. me an 2 buddys shot a 45.5 lb female 2 winters ago by some thick cover in the woods, so now we only hunt IN the woods. I only sit on stand for 20 mins, because thats what all the videos say. does staying longer make the difference? do you use mainly coyote sounds or prey sounds? I use both. My buddy is kinda noisy when walking, I wish he would be quieter.
 
Its up to you... but 40 min has worked for me... not saying I kill many a lot over 20 min, but enough have come sneaking in that to me it is worth the wait.... plus to me i hate to think that i did everything else right and just didnt wait long enough.... i use mainly prey sounds and just throw in the yote sounds..... but more this time of year... i do a lot of night hunting as well.... but can hunt the more open areas then.... and i know my areas... i use photos, topo maps and all info i can get to help me scout an area..... if you want to discuss it just give me a call after 10am Saturday and I would be glad to help all i can... 814-577-8405
 
I'd love to talk, but tommorow I'm heading downstate to a game diner. I use google earth alot, I have spots that I know of they use alot, and some den sites too. I checked out your calls, very nice. I'd like to get a custom howler soon, I guess I gotta wait till spring though. about 2 weeks ago we found a spot where 4 sets of yote tracks led into a country block, so we got permission and went in that evening, we had 2 yotes come in just to where we couldnt see, but we could hear the buggers, they were circling left to right over and over, but the wind was still and they waited us out till dark., we had no lights with us so they won. I couldnt get them in any closer then 50 yards.
 
This is my first year seriously calling and ive had zero success with calling in yotes so far. Ive heard them, seen them during deer season and Ive had them crap on my traps, but have not yet shot or trapped one, But i know theyre out there and With fox being closed now they're goin to be at the top of my hit list, Some nice cold snowy weather would be nice. Im tired of all this rain/snow stuff
 
GameLandManPA,I've never had the oppertunity to hunt bradford county,but would like to in the near future.I have done pretty well,in cameron,potter,and clinton counties.Have taken fox and coyotes in those 3 counties,and may be up that way this coming fall.I live in the southwestern corner of the state and do my calling in fayette,somerset,and green counties.

Weatherby243,when a coyote or fox leaves its dropping on a set,i take it as a good omen.Take a stick and move it a few inches,to one side,and leave things as they are.If its a good set,the coyote will be back and most likely hit the bait.I've taken droppings out of the hole and caught the predator that done it.Coyotes and fox,both will do it.
 
weatherby, dont lose hope, if it was easy everyone would be doing it. get a topo and mark the spots the yotes howl form in the early summer, those will be you hottest spots.and ive found yotes are tuufer to hunt in winter because of the mating season, the yotes here clam up and become very seclusive durring the pairing up period. so look for single yote tracks not pairs.
yote tote, I wish I has foxes here, not many around, yotes killed them off 5 years ago.
 
I am from Elk County and have only killed one coyote in 3 years. I only started hunting them three years ago but get out as often as I can. I hunt in areas where I see tracks but have not called one in this year. I had 2 come in together last year but only saw them as a flash. Many people that I talk to tell me that they do come in, I just don't see them. Or they see me and scoot before I have a chance to see them. I feel I have tried hundreds of techniques but I know there are a million more to try. Good luck all of you.
 
jbordy, I feel your pain, haha. I myself have a tuff time. I recently got ahold of a little known PA coyote hunting video, By a man that the PA game commish and WV game commish uses to dispatch trouble coyotes, his tactics are slightly differnt then most eastern tactics, PA has a unique coyote situation, because of our many differnt terrain types and our Outrageous hunting perssure, we have it bad. Not to mention PA's mountains are about 1000 feet taller then the valleys and nestled closley together, sound doesnt travel far, also not to be left out is the fact that our timber is usualy dense and mixed, and that hampers sound. The best advice I can muster is, FIND THEM.
Find the spots they sleep, meet them in there mornings when they wake up hungry. Yotes love to sleep where they hunt, Thick spots, as a rule, if its tuff to walk through, they sleep there. yotes love woods where you can only see 20-30 yards. They feel safe taking there pups there, and so the adult pups are rasied to travel and feel safe in these places. SCENT CONTROL is THE MOST important thing PERIOD. There nose is what feeds them and keeps them from danger. scent sprays cloth washes and scent lok. Use it. KEEP SILENT as a mouse or your odds decrease very quickly. A coyotes eyes have been scientificly proven to be 15 - 20 times Better, then a turkeys!!! thats WAY better then your eyes my friend. The only way to get yotes, is to make no mistakes, and even then you must find the woods and the spot in that woods within 300 yards where they are, and make your calls quietly at first for about 30 seconds, then pause for 10 mins and LOOK WITH YOUR EYES NOT YOUR HEAD
 
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they crawl in... on there bellys or come up the hill just enough to peek over. After calling for 30 secs and waiting 10 mins, Call very loud and very excitedly, like a rabbit freeking out. Make it sound like 2 rabbits fighting and killing each other do that for 1-2 mins and wait 20 mins more not moving a muscle. I have seen them jump 5 feet in the air trying to see over a ditch at whatever was dieng in the bushes. In PA, they are good, not just good, VERY GOOD. PA may be the hardest state to hunt yotes in, because we have ALOT of food for them, so they arent hungry for long. SO find the areas they use alot, and hunt the brush near by. In or der to find them, look for tracks, scat, dead animals and the sort. They love to use trails in and around woods, deer trails, ridges, benches, and valleys. Listen for there Howls, thiey often howl from the same spots, Those areas are HOT. Hunt from high ground if possible, or even in a tree stand. And dont be silly and hunt in the fields... Plus, another tip... winter time is not the easyiest time to hunt them if you ask me. Killing them in the summer and fall is. In winter they seem to roam around more. They are THE smartest animal in north america, up to 5 times smarter then your dog, and a profesional killer at that. They dont feel like they are the top predator, they know we are. so they assume there is danger whenever they hear another animal being killed. So be patient. I dont know everything, I am still learning, and still not "good" at it. But The best way of getting more yotes is to do everything right, and start by finding them.
 
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they crawl in... on there bellys or come up the hill just enough to peek over.



I am wondering if this video is tom bechdals? IIRC he stated this as being what "they" do but every coyote I have called which are very few do not crawl into a sound.
 
Some of the tips I wrote in are from the tom Bechdel video as well as many others and books to. My hunting buddy has had them come in on there bellys over a diversion ditch, he failed to connect with that one. My other buddy just this summer had a mother come in bouncing up and down from just over a dip trying to see over, he connected, she weighed 35 lbs. I had a 45 lb female 2 winters ago come and sit at 50 yards and watch for a few mins over the hill before coming to my 12 gauge.
 
I would say they might crawl under something if they had to but I have never seen one belly crawl camando style to get closer to a call. I could see where one might jump over something to see a bit better. but like stated above take a lot of stuff with a grain of salt. he is not a total moron but some things he says just does not click right.
 
How long have you've been hunting Bradford county. Live in Athens. Have heard of a few being killed around there. My neighbor filmed a yote eating a deer carcus.
 
I hunt with a good crew out of Ny and we killed 28 last year but it was done with the dogs... We also hunted every Fri, Sat, and Sun..

As for the caller i have been out so many times and refuse to give up but i have seen TWO all the times i have been out and never shot one that way...

And here is the thing that ticks me off... My other buddy who traps Dusty Cartrette hangs out with Bill Caston a bit traped 11 of them this year in the places that i call...

I mean i am glad for him , but it makes me wonder what makes these coyotes so different then other places... Some will say it is the breeding of the beast some say it is the high pressure or the northeast ... Who knows if you all figure it out let me know
 


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