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Coyote Snare guide for Michigan


Video - may or may not be current but gives an idea.

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I read the Michigan regs a couple years ago and dispatch snares were illegal. The only type of snares you could use were non lethal snares. They have to have relaxing locks, deer stops on them, and two swivels. They cannot be attached in a way that the coyote can get entangled or strangulate.

Unless something has changed in the regs, I personally would skip snaring under those conditions, but then again, if you can check once a day, maybe its not so bad. A canine in a non lethal snare is going to tear the hell out of itself and your gear. I'd rather have them dispatched shortly after the catch and long before I get there.

Good luck, they can be tricky to catch depending how wary they are. The young ones can be incredibly stupid, but they can learn fast.





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Thanks again for your input, Pittu. You too, Teal.

I'll probably forgo the snares. They were only appealing due to what I thought was their simplicity, but if they have to have this, that and another thing to be legal, they're no simpler than a trap.

I gotta look into getting a few traps now.


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Not trying to steal the thread---

Caught a coyote in a hog snare today-- stuff happens!
Also had a deer in the hog trap-- turned it loose.


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I got back from Eastern MT yesterday.
There was an old guy with 3 coyotes in his truck and some coil spring jaw traps.
I asked him how he could trap a coyote when I am kicking up a cotton tail or hare every few feet in the sage brush.

He said he was putting lure on a bone.


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keep us abreast of your progress.

That scalped spot with the turds is a public read board of sorts. They crap to mark their presence and others will follow suit to communicate.

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As a kid I. Did a lot of trapping but never ever could catch a coyote in a leg hold...had some old timers show me sets and how to sift dirt ect..fence line snares would get them tho...caught a few that way....dog hunters hate snares but tough they weren't supposed to be running there....

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Originally Posted by rainierrifleco
As a kid I. Did a lot of trapping but never ever could catch a coyote in a leg hold...had some old timers show me sets and how to sift dirt ect..fence line snares would get them tho...caught a few that way....dog hunters hate snares but tough they weren't supposed to be running there....


If you will put a stop on the snare, it will catch the coyotes, dogs, deer, etc and not choke them to death. That way you can release the dogs and deer, alive.

I could be that the coyote ate the apple, they eat pears. Put a game camera out and you can see what is coming around. I killed 5 coyotes eating pears, this past September (may have been August). They started eating them at night, but after about 10 days to 2 weeks, they started coming in the daytime. Their mistake!


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Never caught any pets it was always someone's hound out coon hunting..
Never bothered with a stop as they would just take the snare...and then have choice words for me.....and they were trespassing on our farm...go figure...I ran hounds too and my dog would not choke himself with a snare..he just waited for me to rescue him...

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Originally Posted by Pittu
I read the Michigan regs a couple years ago and dispatch snares were illegal. The only type of snares you could use were non lethal snares. They have to have relaxing locks, deer stops on them, and two swivels. They cannot be attached in a way that the coyote can get entangled or strangulate.

Unless something has changed in the regs, I personally would skip snaring under those conditions, but then again, if you can check once a day, maybe its not so bad. A canine in a non lethal snare is going to tear the hell out of itself and your gear. I'd rather have them dispatched shortly after the catch and long before I get there.

Good luck, they can be tricky to catch depending how wary they are. The young ones can be incredibly stupid, but they can learn fast.






I've been using "snares" known as "cable restraints" in Michigan for 10 years...we use what is allowed better than nothing ...sure would like to use" dispatch snares" being we can only use "cable restrains" only on private land...

Its the best way to eliminate coyotes in deer yards in the UP when we get a couple feet of snow in January and February...I've caught only one deer in 10 years a very small fawn and it was released...I use jump sticks across deer runways...deer go over coyotes go under...I do loose 1-2 coyotes a year to wolves killing and ripping to pieces a caught coyote...

Last year I caught in "cable restraints" 43 coyotes on 1600 acres of private land...

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I have used a bait/attractant successfully. Stake down a dead sheep in an open field and set a scent post set downwind nearby. Don't set the bait itself or you are liable to catch an eagle or hawk.


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Set the trap were he puts his foot down




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I started trapping rats (muskrats) when I was 10 years old (1973). Caught thousands of them. A few mink, skunks, weasels, ducks, pheasants etc... Back in the day, I was getting $7.00 for an avg rat, and upwards of $13.00-$14.00 for a nice big one. Bringing home a check of $750-$1000 a month as a 15 year old kid.

I trapped beaver too. But by far the most difficult was Mr. Wiley Coyote.

Read lots of books, talk to lots of old timers and then develop a routine that works for you.

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I don't know if this link will work; but I know the guy who wrote this article on trapping coyotes in his career he has probably filled several dump truck loads full of problem coyotes. The trap he is setting in the pictures are sterling mj 600's and they do fit inside a plastic sandwich bag when set. Those traps are powerful leg holds. Hope that helps.

http://bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/C660.pdf



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Guys on the deer lease catch them. They hang a big treble hook 4 feet off the groung baited with hamburger. They do this by the place where dump deer and hog guts. They have caught quite a few.

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Originally Posted by hanco
Guys on the deer lease catch them. They hang a big treble hook 4 feet off the groung baited with hamburger. They do this by the place where dump deer and hog guts. They have caught quite a few.


Sorry, I cannot hate any animal that much. A cat once caught itself on a sturgeon bait I left dangling out of the pickup bed. I hate cats and still felt bad for catching it.


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Guys on the deer lease catch them. They hang a big treble hook 4 feet off the groung baited with hamburger. They do this by the place where dump deer and hog guts. They have caught quite a few.


Sorry, I cannot hate any animal that much. A cat once caught itself on a sturgeon bait I left dangling out of the pickup bed. I hate cats and still felt bad for catching it.


Agreed^^^^^^

That's truly f u c k e d up.....

You have some real a-holes at your Deer lease hanco.........

ETA....the fact that you allow it doesn't say much for you either.....

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No animal deserves that!!


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Having trapped a lot of animals in my life, I'm having a difficult time seeing this work. Not that they would not bite it, but that they would still be there to see them on the line.

Are you suggesting that they are caught and still there when you arrive? Or is this a way to have them runoff with a treble hook in their mouth?

I've caught a pile of wild stuff that will fight so hard that they will do far more damage to themselves trying to escape then the trap alone could ever manage. I just don't see a coyote hooked in the thin skin of the lips or tongue staying put without ripping loose and running off. Raccoons, hogs, bear, coyote, wolverine, these guys are gonna rip lose and be gone I think in every case, especially upon your approach.

Cats, possums, skunks, and even Wolves, I could see them curl up and sleep til you arrive. They don't fight traps as relentlessly as the others.


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