Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Flyfishin22 on April 17, 2016, 07:20:09 PM
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Just started out hunting this season, and I have been trying to shoot coyotes for some time now. Ive tried a couple different spots on several occasions each, and I havent even seen a yote. :bash: Been using a howler, a rabbit in distress, and mouse in distress call. I am just starting out, and would seriously appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction on where to go in the Cle Elum area over to around North Bend. Thanks in advance!
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Àny public lànd East, North and South of cle elum you should be able to call coyotes. 6-8 stands a day at least a mile apart. Try not to hit the same places over and over. When you call one remember everything you did right. Keep at it, it is muçh harder to learn to kill coyotes consistently. It isn't as easy aß it looks on TV.
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If you are hunting an area that gets hit by other coyote hunters mix up your calls. The dogs around my place will not respond to howls (unless it is after dark) or rabbit calls. Everyone and their brother that hunts public land seems to be stuck on rabbit calls. The dogs can get conditioned to avoid it. Bird calls is what draws them out a lot of times when they have been called to alot. Woodpecker, yellowhammer, crow, etc. A few weeks ago I spooked one that I had missed a shot at 2 days before and I pulled him back with a woodpecker call. He came running like he had never heard one before. Big mistake. I also notice that many coyote hunters will only hunt huge, wide open clear cuts or fields. A good patch of timber during the middle of the day with an old road running through it has gotten me a lot of song dogs when the wide open spaces were vacant. It works for cats as well. We use to shoot a ton of them up in the Taylor River area out of North Bend.
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I know how you feel. I have been out at least 20 times around the Moses lake area and have only shot one that I happened to stumble across and get a lucky shot on.
