Zagman
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Post by Zagman on Feb 15, 2012 10:20:01 GMT -5
Three All-American Stink Dogs and a red fox on the last check.......
Officially done.........
183 coyotes 45 fox
Season picture post is imminent!
Time to make up to the wife! LOL
MZ
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Post by pockets on Feb 15, 2012 10:54:48 GMT -5
WOW I think is the appropriate way to sum up your season. Great job.
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Post by mikespring on Feb 15, 2012 11:29:17 GMT -5
Man....Thats a PILE of coyotes...Hell of a season, congrats.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2012 12:04:14 GMT -5
Did You save any for next year? congrats
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Trapper Jack
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Post by Trapper Jack on Feb 15, 2012 15:44:50 GMT -5
very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by creekboy on Feb 15, 2012 16:53:10 GMT -5
way to keep striking while the iron is hot -who knows when you will get another season like this -great effort
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Post by yoteguts on Feb 15, 2012 18:00:44 GMT -5
Ah man I saw the title to this thread and thought you had talked the wife into coyote fleshing lessons.lol Way to go!!!
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Post by ohio on Feb 15, 2012 20:41:35 GMT -5
Simply amazing. Great job. So you think 200 next year?
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Post by arrow1 on Feb 15, 2012 22:31:01 GMT -5
Crazy amount of work and dedication to achieve that goal. Well done.
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traps82
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Hope is always alive
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Post by traps82 on Feb 15, 2012 23:11:01 GMT -5
Congrats!!!
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Post by milkie62 on Feb 16, 2012 13:58:14 GMT -5
Mark,I assume you trap alot of the same areas each year.Have you ever noticed lower takes anytime you have taken an abundance the previous year ? Great job as usual.
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Post by rufus on Feb 16, 2012 18:41:47 GMT -5
Its been said by many already! Nice season congrats.
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Zagman
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Post by Zagman on Feb 19, 2012 6:08:49 GMT -5
Milkie........differences year to year in my coyote catch run rampant on specific locations/farms.
Overall, across the board, I don't see huge variances...........farm to farm I do.
Trapping early, we are generally family group/pup trapping right out of the shoot.........so changes happen based specifically on where the individual family groups are camped out when I start.
Talk to your farmers and you will see it A LOT.
"Tons of coyotes around this year.....we hear them every night, all summer"
Or the opposite. "Is the population down.....we haven't heard any coyotes are year?"
These are examples of individual farms with family group(s) right on the main farm, so the guys hear the pups all summer and then into the early fall. If the next year, no female moves back in to that general area, that farmer thinks (due to lack of vocalizations all summer) that there are less coyotes overall.
I will tell you that I thought, for the first time ever, that my population was down this year. Sounds hard to believe since I had my best year ever. I recognized early (ask NYREDFOX!) that things were off and I just worked my butt off to get more traps on more coyotes.
Slow days (to me) while short term depressing allow me to get back to setting more traps on new coyotes earlier in the day. The eternal optimist, when I have a slow day I sum it up by saying "Means there's more to catch tomorrow!"
I have said it several times already.......I am concerned about the mange numbers I saw this year and the mild winter. Even caught my first red fox with mange. Perhaps some family groups and pups got infected early and they died naturally.........or got shot.
Very common with farmers to shoot pups (fox or coyotes) in the summer that are full of mange because they just expose themselves too much, too close, too often, and eventually die by a bullet. Maybe that happened a few times throughout my line where the farmers didn't tell me or didn't know (neighbors, hired men, etc shooting them).
On my short vacation line, 10-15-20 dead coyotes before I start is noticeable and can make an impact.
Not sure what will happen next year with this mange thing.......
Time will tell.......
MZ
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Post by brushwolf on Feb 19, 2012 7:23:32 GMT -5
Congrats zags on a outstanding season.
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Post by Rick on Feb 19, 2012 8:53:02 GMT -5
Congratulations Mark. That's an incredible Wire to Wire run.
Every time we talked I thought...Man, he's goin' for it! Kept thinking...I wish I knew Winter wasn't coming this year...could've worked out a little more time off.
Truth be told...I don't have your drive. Start to finish Dude...you put on one Hell of a show!!
I agree with you on the mange thing. Mange is ALWAYS here in WNY. I'm worried about next year.
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Post by minifoxer on Feb 19, 2012 11:38:32 GMT -5
Crazy season, Mark. Way To Go! Thats just plain intense!
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Post by frankd on Feb 19, 2012 22:30:21 GMT -5
Congrats Mark on a Epic season.Grining and skining.
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Post by milkie62 on Feb 20, 2012 1:40:01 GMT -5
I know in my area I never seen a coyote track on the powerline in the few light snow falls we have had.Have had 2 deer carcasses setup in usual spot with trail cam since right after New Years and 1 red fox and crows only feeding on it.Previous years up to 5 coyotes a nite feeding on it.
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