Trapping yotes is fun and not really that hard to learn if have the time. There’s really only a few things you need to know and pay attention to.....Location is key….. A few gang sets put out in quality locations can make a big difference…. Keep it simple….Make your sets look natural and not try to dress them up too much…. Study the map and look at the bigger picture….. ….

Take your time and don’t get any scent on the trap itself…..Ive learned that’s there no way to put them in fast so you just got to just throttle back a little and concentrate on setting each one right…Even if you know you’ve only got one reset to put in and you get in a hurry…. you may put him on alert and make him suspicious just by your sweat dripping on the set too much….Try to be patient though and focus on quality over quantity….especially for anyone new and just getting started.

The worst thing that could happen is for a trap to snap on his toes and he gets away…. They may not look like it but coyotes are highly intelligent and adaptable. It may only take one poor set to educate him and make him trap shy. Then he probably wont come around any of your sets again…. They have the potential to be baby deer killing machines…. but they’re really not the killers they seem to be….Its only in situations where the land has been fragmented and there’s a lack of a quality understory due to poor management decisions and practices where they become a nuisance and cause issues.

The truth though is that you're better off to not worry so much about trapping unless necessary and instead put your efforts into improving your habitat and it will in turn produce more wildlife. Proper balance is an important concept to understand instead of yotes simply being labeled as “bad” … …..People may not like them but coyotes are just another part of nature and they can actually be a vital friend. They serve a purpose like everything else. They take out the weak and sick and allow “survival of the fittest” to run its course …. Environmental factors change over time and that’s how the wildlife change with it. Its evolution and its what insures us of having a strong prosperous herd for years to come.

Another important thing that coyotes do though is they keep the deer population from exceeding the carrying capacity in the event humans fail to do so. Destroying the diversity and quality of the habitat is bad for all the critters…..I’m certainly not saying that we need to completely quit shooting and trapping them……But we definitely could understand them a little better…..a lot like weeds…..In places where the understory is well managed across a large amount of acreage…..you really don’t have to worry about doing anything with coyotes and that’s the most ideal way to go….There’s gonna continue to be some areas though where the land is fragmented with poor understory. If folks know how to tell the difference then they can make wiser decisions. Folks just have to know how to recognize the difference instead of only seeing him as bad……

It can be hard to change what you see as normal and "just the way its done" once its been ingrained in you for so long. But if you slow down and look at nature with an open mind to new possibilities and a humble heart to the awesomeness of its depth …..Then we can simply use our eyes to see that nature has given us the blueprint and the process for EVERYTHING. Its been right there in front of us the whole time for everyone to see. An immaculate design able to adapt to unimagined or unforeseen change and its deeper and more complex than we will ever know or could have imagined possible….Even our perception of something as simple as a coyote may be misunderstood and our understanding of its role as part of the bigger picture may change through time ……Can you see it?.... H-o-l-i-s-t-i-c…


Round like circle…..Whole like circle…..Circle good…….Scary thing not “bad”…..