snareing yotes

[tonymalone]

how much or how little guideing does it take?
anybody got pics. of yote snares in grass and weeds?

[0trapper]

its not the best pic but heres one I got a couple of years ago going under a barbed wire fence to a dead pile, there was a trail goin thru the grass in the snow and I just hunt the snare over the trail, 12 inches off the ground with a 12 inch loop. you can see my foot prints in the snow, the yote followed them up to and thru the snare, if ya can find the trails thru the grass/weeds, all you have to do is hang a snare over the trail, on the next pass, you'll have one. THIS WORKS HERE! not sure if it will work for you. if you have snow on the ground, make a path thru the snow and hang a snare over your path, do not step off to the side to hang the snare, or the yote will step to the side to see what you was doing and miss the snare.

[tonymalone]

" do not step off to the side, to hang the snare, or the yote will, step to the side to see what ya was doing and miss the snare"
we don't get much snow , but ever so often we do , thanks for the advice, thats the kinda stuff i'm looking for.
i hung one out last week, in a good yote trail, was makeing catches in footholds along that stretch of ditch, it was a dirt crossing on a lateral ditch, that was small weed and grass covering, i did waller out a spot to the side, while hanging it.
i know like trapping, the yotes will show me what i can get away w/ and what i can't.
just trying to pick up as much as i can. maybe won't be long, i'll be posting pics. of them bad boys.

[0trapper]

I know someone will come on here and tell you that that piece of advise is BS but heres proof that the yotes follow humans to see what they are doing,

this pic was taken on my trap line last winter while trapping a creek for mink and rats, I wasn't allowed to trap yotes on this farm. the yote picked up my footprints at the farthest end from the truck and back tracked me to where the truck was parked, everytime I went down the creekbank to check a set, the yote went also according to the tracks. but you have to remember, our yotes are used to humans being in their realm.

had the snow been deeper, the yote would have been walking in my boot prints.

[DaveM]

Tony, I dont know if you have CRP or grass/ weed fields down your way. If you do, drive 4 wheeler through it a set a snare right in the tire tracks. Use #9 wire for support. Even though they are in the open, they work.

[tonymalone]

yup got crp & wrp, thought i might stake a beaver down, w/ man made trails in, .
set one out today, Brad sent me, where they are crossing irrigation pivot bridges, then they are following single tire track through weed and grass.maybe i'll get one!

[thenail]

Here is a couple of my snare sets for coyotes

[tonymalone]

thanks thenail, goodlooking set, but leaning toward no entanglement.
anybody got any thoughts on which videos or books, out there, and by who, are geared toward bait staions in grass and weeds w/ no entanglement, that would prolly help me out?

[thenail]

Do you have any talglement at all handy??

[tonymalone]

got plenty of it, trying to stayaway from it (live market)

[0trapper]

tonymalone said:

got plenty of it, trying to stayaway from it (live market)

you might want to consider 1/8 cable then and you will have some refusals. on tip is if you setting in dead grass, go to walmart or anywhere that sales spay paint and get a can of Metalic gold exterior paint and paint your snares with it, then let them hang out in the sun for a few days to fade. they will blend in great.

If you look long enough you'll see the snare in the pic ;D we didn't have any dead grass in the area at the time the pics was taken.

theres some good video's out there on snareing, the two I have are Slim Penderson's and Hal Sullivan's, if your looking for a non-tanglement video then check out Hals. its very informative.

[tonymalone]

i notice the snare is in the row rite in line w/ the feild entrance, i'm assumeing tracks told ya that was the row they were traveling, good pic. thanks, also notice #9 wire comes across a few rows, not just stuck in ground closer to snare , is there a reason for that?

also we have a heck of a snow on the ground rite now (4 or 5 in.) first snow accumalation in a few years. i had dumped some beaver guts in a cut corn feild around from house the other day, spindlely looking stalks still about 2' tall, still standing, i rode 4- wheeler around to see what tracks looked like in snow (something we very seldom get a chance to do) yotes had really worked gut pile over tracks going every where, only prob. was there seemed to be no ryme or reason in their travel. but in thier defence most of them had prolly never seen snow, if they were under 3 years old.
thanks for the tip on videos.
i'm still waiting on my snares to come in, been getting lots of good info.

[0trapper]

yep tracks tell you where to hang a snare every time as for the length of the support wire, that is one of my yote snare supports and the snare was hung for coon and fox so I had to move it out farther to get it down to the hiegth I needed.

had I had the right support, it would had been put in the row with the stubble.

enjoy the 4 inches of snow, we have over 12 inches right now

[tonymalone]

wondering if yall have fish markets up there, and if any of yall yote snare people use fish market scraps for bait stations, and how they worked?

[rn]

What lock are you using on those snares?