where to find coyotes

[killlerJ]

so I've been out the last two weekends for coyote in GMU 407 and haven't seen one or call one in . im using my FoxPro game call and no such luck calling in anything has any had this problem too?? I tried super early hunts and tried late hunt what the best time to get em??  any help is great thanks 

[stevemiller]

dont know what your set is enough to help.make a utube video of you on your hunt,and we can look at it and critique it.  plus tell us where your at so we dont waste time going there.

[killlerJ]

I'm on the Westside  got a couple clear cuts and some open county with bush

[stevemiller]

OK first i was joking,i meant to put a video of you hunting so we can see what you are doing wrong.are you calling in the wind?how long are you calling for?are you covering your scent?are you going in quiet?Are you being very still?what call are you using on your fox pro?DO YOU SMOKE?ETC. 

[killlerJ]

I'm calling in the wind. .. I call for about 15 to 30 mins also I cover my scent and walk in a nice private walk-in  and setting my call at about 50 yards away and sit on the edge of a tree line. I call  with the coyote locater first then coyote pup distress/ rabbit distress. I do not smoke

[stevemiller]

All sounds good to me so far.Is there any sign around?Tracks,feces?

[killlerJ]

no none yet

[Jonathan_S]

With the higher population of cougars and bears up there, you won't be calling in coyotes too often I imagine.  Not discouraging you but you can't expect a consistent high ratio of setups to kills I think, unless you get close to suburban areas or farms or something like that.

I hunted coyotes on the west side for years and thought I was doing something wrong because I called in so few coyotes.  As soon as I moved to the eastside, I felt like a pro and was killing multiple coyotes a day typically.

Location is unfortunately really important.

[stevemiller]

no none yet

Yeah what Jonathan said,and if you have no coyote tracks and no feces then you have no coyotes(my guess because you have bears and cougars)around.Scout around more in the open fields for tracks and go out at night put out a few female coyote howls and find where they are before setting up a set.Good luck.

[Jonathan_S]

 

if they're around at night and you yip-yip-hooooowl, they'll respond.

[fast1]

Watch the wind, don't skyline yourself, slow movements hunt where there's sign.... Go to Walmart, buy a bear & cat tag, play bird sounds & fawn dis. Sounds like in that area your either going to have a lot of empty sets or you need to go to the tumwater to that wolf zoo thingy to see a domesticated wild dog.

[bear hunter]

Try hunting by duck hunting areas. The dogs are looking for easy meals this time of year. Lots of wounded birds and Pheasant release sites to. Good luck

[Boss .300 winmag]

Watch the wind, don't skyline yourself, slow movements hunt where there's sign.... Go to Walmart, buy a bear & cat tag, play bird sounds & fawn dis. Sounds like in that area your either going to have a lot of empty sets or you need to go to the tumwater to that wolf zoo thingy to see a domesticated wild dog.

Bear tag? Season is closed state wide now isn't it?

[Brad Harshman]

Find some cattle- hunt "around" them.  Coyote always seem to follow the cattle it doesn't matter what time of year. Don't tresspass, don't get too close to the cattle, no need to be so close your shots will spook them.

[calib]

all great info on here, only thing i can really ad  is switch up sounds every now and then, maybe not start the same way every time, use other sounds. i have had times where nothing shows its face and i'll throw some tweety bird or something like a fawn and then i'll see them

[sebek556]

when you say locator are you talking coyote locating howl or the siren thingy on the FoxPro? If its the siren do not use it in your set, use it before to figure out where you should set up at. Normally this works best the night before, or at least a hour before doing a set in that area in my experience.

[trophyhunt]

Go to the Yakima training center!  Lots of dogs out there, when we hunted deer there before the Indians slaughtered them, the bio told us to come back and shoot coyotes. We saw a bunch, but that was a few years ago.

[Brad Harshman]

Go to the Yakima training center!  Lots of dogs out there, when we hunted deer there before the Indians slaughtered them, the bio told us to come back and shoot coyotes. We saw a bunch, but that was a few years ago.

Good recommendation.  Typically Native Americans don't hunt spillieye (sp?) - the trickster. 

Also start your set quietly.   If you a have yote nearby and blast out your call - you're probably going to spoke it.

Also the last two times I was out we had yotes sneak in on us and bust us as we quit to move to our next set. 

[JLS]

I saw five while I was bird hunting on the Snake River the other day.