Last hunting club I was in in Sumter county few years ago was covered up with yotes. The last 2 years I never saw a doe with fawns. I'm convinced they were getting wiped out by yotes
When I first started hunting my place in Sumter there was a fence line between 2 pastures with a gate in it. This was early spring right before everything blooms out. I stopped to open the gate and glanced up the fence line and saw a bunch of shiny things along the wood line. The woodline was made of mostly of Bodock trees and was pretty open underneath. I wondered what was shiny, it looked like tinsel. I went to investigate and it was hundreds (like 250-300) sets of treble hooks on about 50 pound line. And what looked like hundreds of skeletons of coyotes, from years and years. I assume the previous lease holder baited them.
We went and removed all the hooks and discarded them but it was a very eerie sight.
