Coyote Bait

[BigN]

I'm sure some of you must have done this already but if you like to hunt coyotes over bait, I tried something new last week and it worked beautifully. On a recent ice fishing excursion, I brought home a 5 gallon pail full of pike, perch, and bass. I cleaned them and put the scraps of the cleaning back in the bucket and set it on the porch for disposal. It was very cold that week so I figured I had some time before it became necessary to get rid of it. By last weekend the bucket with the nastiness in it was also full of water, frozen solid. I had a brainstorm. I took the bucket into my coyote woods, found a good spot for the bait, tipped the bucket upside down and dropped the 5-gallon ice block of stink onto the ground. Over the next several days it started to melt slightly, and stink to high heaven. My treestand is not far away and I observed coyotes, martens, fishers, coons, and several creatures that I couldn't readily identify, all going to the bait to see what it was all about. I realize it's not that much of a discovery but just something to think about if you hunt varmints and also ice fish. Two birds (or varmints) with one stone, so to speak.

 

[Gunnerboy]

If you want every critter in the county to come runnin then leave a skinned out coon in a 5gal bucket with the lid on for a week or 2 during this summer just be preparred for that lid coming off

 

[ridgerunner1965]

seems like i seen it on here, a guy filled a 55 gal barrel with beef scraps, bones and a little water. put it out in the field about 100 yrds from his back deck. when the sun warmed it a little he slipped the barrel off.it was good for the whole winter. he called it a meatsicle. and shot numerous yotes from his deck. ive killed so many yotes from my back porch in the last 15 yrs they will not show up during daylight hours. its almost like a genetic thing.

 

[springfield30-06]

Here's a link to a very similar technique of a frozen 5 gallon bucket with meat in it. This guy calls it a "Baitsicle"

 

[Patriot1/3]

Sheeeeeeesh,go to the slaughter house and get a bucket of blood. Find some road kill and dip into the blood. Coyotes will flock to this.

 

[spclpatrolgroup]

Fish is an awsome bait. If you know anyone into bow fishing they are probably looking for a place to dump the carp they take. Ive setup a trail cam next to a pile of asian carp, got coyotes, bob cat, fox, bear in about a 24 hour span.

 

[Art Eatman]

I've sometimes saved miscellaneous leftovers in Ziplock bags and kept them in the freezer until I want to sit and watch a bait pile. Table scraps, fish guts, spaghetti sauce, whatever. A coyote will eat darned near anything.

 

[TexasPatriot.308]

all the feral pigs I kill become coyote bait, and I got em all over the place.