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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 0:42:39 GMT -5
Hey, I am new here and am trying to figure all this out at one time... I have made alot of progress... I am trying to figure out the picture thing... If this works it will be of a coyote that i trapped New Year's Day '04.. I heard about 20 coyotes howling in this one area and was having a hard to getting them to come to a call so i set a few traps there and this is the second one that I caught in that exact spot. Over 2 years I caught 9 in this area (about a square mile).   |
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 0:51:13 GMT -5
I finaly got it figured out. I had to go back and modify it several times. Anyway, I am Brian Curtis from Silsbee, TX and I have lots to say (and pictures) about calling and trapping critters.
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 2:42:45 GMT -5
 This was my first coyote. I got him 2 years ago. I'm 5'7" and this coyote was longer than me. |
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Post by Bobcat on Feb 16, 2004 9:09:43 GMT -5
Well done, Brian!!  ;D Tell us what you are doing with the pelts and how the market is this season...... Good Hunting & Trapping, Bob |
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Post by slammy on Feb 16, 2004 10:52:08 GMT -5
Hey Brian,
That's a big ole nice lookin male you got in that trap. Congratulations.
I am very familiar with your part of the country having grown up near there. I grew up in a little town called Chester, Tx. near the Neches river. It's about 15 miles north west of Woodville, Tx. We hunted, rode dirt bikes and drove jeeps in those thickets and pine stands. It was beautiful country and still is despite the clear cut practices of the timber companies. We spent lots of time at the Neches river bottom near Fort Teran and Boone's Ferry.
I used to work in all the surrounding towns from Sam Rayburn Lake down to Beaumont. Spurger, Town Bluff, Silsbee, Evadale, Warren, and Woodville so I'm familiar with your area.
It's difficult to call those coyotes down there, they are extra wary. They are not that easy to fool into a trap either. Good Job!
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 12:00:49 GMT -5
Bobcat... Most the coyotes I have caught had the mange and a few were very nice....I have a few pelts in the freezer that I haven't sold yet (I haven't sold any in a while since the local fur buyer past away). I did git some info from a fur buyer in Maypearl but haven't had a chance to contact him. Slammy... I know exactly where chester is. I drive through there very often. Also working on drilling rigs like I do, I get the chance to see alot of this country. I am at school in Waxahachie and drive down 287 to get to Silsbee. Yes, the Big Thicket is deffinately some beautiful country and is extremely thick but the clear cutting makes for great places to call. And those coyotes beat anything you have ever seen. You will alomost never see one unless you are trapping or hunting them but we do have PLENTY of them. I know people that have lived here all there life and never knew we had bobcats or coyotes around here. As far as I know, I am the only person in Silsbee that traps or calls them and the lease that I am on is over 14,000 acres and I have all the coyotes and bobcats and foxes to myself. Everyone else is more interested in killing deer and they are glad to see the other critters go. I have a lot more pictures of bobcats and coyotes but don't have them on my computer now. Maybe I will be able to get them on here one day. I am going home this weekend and plan on doing some calling. I got a new Bill Austin Howler the other day and I am very anxious to use it. I am very please with this call: along with a great sounding howl I can make pretty good sounding cottontail, jack rabbit,and mallard duck sounds and I manage to git a crow sound and wood duck a few times. You can imagine how much everyone loves to hear me practicing it. NechesBobcat  |
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Post by Bobcat on Feb 16, 2004 12:34:30 GMT -5
Good luck this weekend! That Austin holwer is a good one and this is sure the time of the year to use it.
Good Hunting,
Bob
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 16, 2004 22:32:26 GMT -5
Here's the last one that I caught this past season and He was the biggest. I was using red fox urine with a dirt hole set about 7 yards off of a busy logging road. I could tell by the tracks that he had come to the trap once and turned around and a couple of days later he came back for good. I reset the trap but then we had huge storm and it ruined my set but I did see more tracks around the set when I took the trap up.  |
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Post by TommyJohnson on Feb 17, 2004 17:45:10 GMT -5
Just by looking at that pic. I cant see how that could be a full blooded coyote. There are some freaks of nature, but in the numbers your talkin, that aint a freak of nature. Thats a canis bigsonof*gunovas!!!!!!
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Post by NechesBobcat on Feb 18, 2004 0:38:22 GMT -5
That last one was looking at me and I think it would have been a good picture but he turned his head just as I took the picture and i didn't want to waste anymore time taking pictures. I just wanted to shoot him, get him out of the trap and reset it and get out of there. My truck was parked right in the middle of a busy road and I don't like people seeing my truck parked around where I have traps. Notice the small pine tree that he chewed down to the right. I had the trap chained to a much bigger tree.
One great tip for coyote trappers...
If you are using tie wire to tie a chain to a tree, get as much wire wrapped around the tree as you can get through the chain link and use the largest tie wire you can find. Using tie wire is not a very good idea but it will work. I prefer to use a drag with atleast a 5.5' chain but i am lazy and don't always have time to go looking for a trap.
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