Trapper & Predator Caller

BAIT SECRETS OF PRO COYOTE TRAPPERS

I was going through my old correspondence from some of my trapper friends and all of the lure and bait formulas I have acquired. I also found all of my old M-44 bait formulas that I made up when running a lot of cyanide guns.

As I paged through the hundreds of bait formulas and compared my own formulas, I realized just how much thought went into those baits. I also found a research paper compiled by a friend of mine who had a Ph.D. and worked with the Federal Research Center on coyote attractants in the '70s. As I pen these words for this article, I am sure someone at the

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