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Great book is S. Stanley Hawbaker's Trapping North American Furbearers. It gives alot of great set locations, scents, trap care etc... Problem is you can't use any of the methods in the book as trapping with bodygripping traps, ie legholds, snares and conibears has been outlawed in WA. But it's still a good book and can help even with box traps. You're not going to catch any coyotes in a box trap. Yes a few have been caught in one, but you have as good a chance of winning the state lottery. Bobcats on the other hand are suckers for cubby sets and box traps are excellent cubby set traps.
If he does not mind then I will post for everybody. He is over by the Moses Lake area. We need to get rid of these damn Yotes. I have been told that they have killed off the Fox population over here as well.
Catching coyotes in cage traps! I think this is a exercise in futility and wasted time and money. If you want to catch coyotes get a permit and use footholds. With the price of fuel and cage traps no way you can ever break even. I think it's great some people want to give it a try, I'll pass as I can only afford to lose so much money trapping. Sorry for being negative, just trying to give a realistic view. Merry Xmas.
Deaner, What he means is that you can get a nuisance permit from Fish and Wildlife if you go through thier class and the land owner has a problem with them kill livstock or something to that affect. After you get yout trapping test done you can go though a nuisance wildlife class. If you know landowners that need Yotes taken out then you can get a permit to do it. The problem is it is illegal to sell the pelts if they are not tanned first. You can only do i if they are trapped with a cage trap and that is with all animlas you catch.