LURE STRATEGIES FOR COYOTES AND CATS

Although there are many things that make a set produce, understanding how the lure you use fits in to each set’s strategy will increase the odds of a catch. For just getting the target furbearer in close to the area, to causing it to work the set in a manner that places its paw on the pan, most of my sets involve using lures.

Lure in itself can be divided into many categories and each can be used with others, separately, or not at all, at each set to mix things up a little. I also think that a lure that has been burned out on a trapline is worse than a lure that has been deemed not so good for some reason.

I make and use my own lures for the most part, but still keep a couple of other manufacturers’ products around in case I start to get pass-by responses from the coyotes. I think that coyotes become suspicious when they continue smelling the same odors, or they