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Topic: Regional reports? How's your season going?
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Cdog911
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posted December 25, 2006 07:03 PM
So let's hear it. How's everyone's season going so far?
I'll pony up first.
SUCKS!!!
People are wearing shorts and T-shirts, the weather is so warm. Haven't had a snowflake in this part of KS and the damned tulips are emerging. The only thing we've seen on most stands this past three weeks has been mosquitoes and gnats. That's just wrong.
To make matters worse, the local Mallard Marshall advised us that he's being deluged with reports of sick coons from what looks like distemper. That is consistent with the short numbers we're seeing this year.
Last weekend, Matt and I launched the ATV's nd leap frogged our way thru nearly ten miles of river bottom, calling 'cats one way and coons back to the quads. In 7 hours of calling, we only saw 1 squirrel. We didn't bump a single deer, coyote,... nothing. It was so bad, in fact, that we came across a small possum in a 220 bucket set that was still alive and we set it free since the trap wasn't properly tagged. Therefore, we not only aren't killing anything, but by setting that grinner free, we've placed ourselves into some sort of net negative kill quota thing. Absolutely bizarre.
Please, God, send me some snow?!?!?
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Tim Behle
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posted December 25, 2006 07:31 PM
Pretty slow here as well, too many projects around home to keep me out of the field. Then when I get caught up around the house, the truck breaks down again. ( Joyce had to tow me home again yesterday )
Do you have any grey fox in your area? I'm hearing that grey prices are really going up this year. Enough that I'm considering giving up on catching a bobcat in a cage, and changing over to trapping some fox.
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TA17Rem
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posted December 25, 2006 08:53 PM
Its been really slow here. picked up a few more birds this week. Hopefuly things start to shape up next week...
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Cdog911
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posted December 26, 2006 04:31 AM
TIm B,
A few greys run in eastern KS but I've only seen one here and that was twenty years ago from a deer stand. What fox we see and get are reds in and near town.
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TOM64
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posted December 26, 2006 05:21 AM
Just getting started here, I've been deer hunting every chance I've had since October, I only saw one coyote and heard very few.
Saturday, I had my cousin drop me off two miles from the house, we first saw three coyotes sitting on top of some hay bales, he got one of those, I went off afoot. Made three stands and called four coyotes, pairs on two stands. Lots of sign all the way back to the house. This area was hunted by the gov trapper just a month or so ago. I had to call it quits and start my Christmas rounds.
Have to deer hunt again this coming weekend, so we'll see if it was just a fluke in a couple of weeks.
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Cdog911
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posted December 26, 2006 11:03 AM
Tom,
LMAO.
Last year, when showing my gunner Matt the ropes, I advised him to always be watching those big roundbales since coyotes often like to lay up on them and sun. As luck would have it, we haven't seen a single coyote on a roundbale and Matt never misses the opportunity to interject it into some part of each day we hunt. For example, "Last night, I was out with the girlfriend just hanging out and look! Over there. There is no coyote lying on that roundbale." ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Brad Norman
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posted December 26, 2006 11:12 AM
I thought I was the only one that shot them off of round bales. It amazes me how often I see them up there.
Tom - Is your govt trapper Bryant Farris?
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2dogs
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posted December 26, 2006 12:34 PM
Since Oct 19th, Seen 21 coyotes. Seen a few of the same ones later in the wk. Killed 1, put a rd in the ribs of a another.
I expect to spot mid 40's by the end of snow season.
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TOM64
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posted December 26, 2006 01:26 PM
Cdog, we used to drive by one particular "hay stack" and stop, 9 times out of 10 a coyote would run out of the hay and across the pasture.... unless of course you told someone "watch this".
Brad, I'm not sure who the trapper is over there, here in this county we have 2, Stanley Oglesby and a fellow named Hatton, can't remember his first name. Last year my cousin killed 60 something there and supposedly the trapper took 40 or so, according to a landowner there. It's a good place.
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Kelly Jackson
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posted December 26, 2006 05:25 PM
It has been ok here........I have taken 21 coyotes and 6 cats......slow today....hunted till noon and only took one coyote.....last Saturday was our best day ever on cats we took 4 and one coyote......that does not happen often here. Regards Kelly
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TRnCO
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posted December 26, 2006 05:41 PM
Been descent out here so far. Almost too much snow now. Last Saturday, I wore snowshoes to go calling and I wasn't in the mountains. That's a first for me. But we haven't drawn a blank day yet on the eastern plains of CO. Only got in three sets on Sat., and called in one triple, killed two.
I'll say some prayers that this next storm skips us here in CO. and makes it's way to KS. If we get 6" of snow and wind from this next storm, we'll be worse off than the 24" that we got from the last storm!
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JeremyKS
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posted December 26, 2006 06:33 PM
We have been doing alright in western Kansas but not keeping very many coyotes. We have been seeing lots of mange still. We had 3-6 inches of snow in the area.
TR you can keep that 24 inches of snow, that would make the St. Francis contest pretty slow going.
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Cdog911
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posted December 26, 2006 07:10 PM
Sorry to hear about the mange, Jeremy. Our coyotes here are in pretty decent shape, just not answering calls. Just tonight, I had a landowner leave me a voice mail to let me know that this morning, he had three healthy coyotes rasslin' below his barn. We've called that area in the past two weeks and I know that they're the three survivors of a group of four I called earlier in the season. We've thrown everything at them that we can in what I know to be thier core area and nada. He says that every night at 6:30 or so, they're down there raising hell. Go figure.
Just the other day, a guy I know called to talk taxidermy and he said another buddy of his had spent the entire day out calling and got nothing. At one spot, he could see for a half-mile in all directions and called with distress for about 30 minutes. Ended the stand with a lone howl and almost immediately, five coyotes answered him back from as close as a couple hundred yards to as far as 700 yards. He spotted one sitting and watching him, but none of them approached the call - whether it was distress or howls. Sometimes this shit just doesn't work. Right Tim?
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keekee
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posted December 26, 2006 11:17 PM
Slow here as well! Damn rain is killen me here! Warm temps and rain!
We have killed a few coyotes and 2 cats, have not got to go fox calling yet plan to this weekend if it dont rain? Weather man say rain Sat, Sun and Mon...Go figure!
But we really dont get cranked up good till Jan, and the deer seasons go out.
Brent
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Nahuatl
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posted December 27, 2006 05:56 AM
Great season so far. Coming up on the hundred mark on solo called shots. They were running yesterday.
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TheHuntedOne
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posted December 27, 2006 07:46 AM
Our average low temps this time of year are around 9 degrees. This season, we have been averaging 15 to 20 degreees above that. With several 50 plus degree days in December, it has taken a toll on the hunting. The coyotes have their winter coats, and I think it is just too hot for them to move around much during the day.
Combinded with the lack of snow, or no snow actually, the woods are all brown. Mice, chipmonks and other small animals that are normally burrowed up under the snow are having a ball running around in the woods. There seems to be a lot of food available for the coyotes and they aren't having to work hard for it.
To sum it up, hunting is tougher than normal. On the plus side, the abundant food should keep them in good health and the litters be should be good this year, and that means more to hunt next year.
There is always a silver lining ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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RagnCajn
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posted December 27, 2006 03:49 PM
North La reporting. Been extremely dry and warm. Havent been out much. Have only been out calling four different days. Called in something on every trip. Beginning to get some rains and the temps have dropped in the last week. Deer Seasons shut down in about a week. Can hit it harder after that.
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TRnCO
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posted December 27, 2006 05:21 PM
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TR you can keep that 24 inches of snow, that would make the St. Francis contest pretty slow going
Well, the weatherman is predicting another 10"-20" starting tomorrow afternoon and ending some time on Sat. I knew I should've kept that snowmobile, sold it last year! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Darn snowshoes might get another workout next weekend, won't be anyone going anywhere if this storm really does produce that much this weekend. There is no ground cover to catch any more, so we're going to have wicked ground blizzards, even after it stops!
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Cdog911
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posted December 27, 2006 07:48 PM
Sounds like we're supposed to get the same thing starting as rain tomorrow night, switching to snow sometime Saturday and into Sunday. If that happens, I'll be in bed by 10 on New Year's Eve and ready to hit 'em hard Mon and Tues and see if I can find one that's ready to stretch his legs. They've got to get hungry or curious at some point. If you can spare, say, 4 inches of snow TR, we'll take that off your hands. You can keep the wind.
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Tim Behle
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posted December 27, 2006 08:20 PM
We had the wind all day today, it's just died down in the last hour. That storm is supposed to hit here in the morning. We just ate Dinner With Andy and his family, ( They are out for the holiday ) and on the way home, we were watching lightning flashes to the West. We are supposed to get snow on the mountains and rain here in the valley, we sure could use it.
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Leonard
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posted December 27, 2006 10:42 PM
I left the house, 12:00 P.M. headed for Banning; 56 miles. I think Bannings's about ten miles from Palm Springs, which is low desert? At the time, clear/partly cloudy skies, here in Upland.
It took me 2½ hours to get there. Rain, heavy rain, hail, sleet, and slushy snow on the windshield, by degrees.
Wonder if that weather is/was what you are expecting, Tim? And now, it's windy and cold.
Good hunting. LB
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Tim Behle
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posted December 28, 2006 02:20 AM
I got called out at 12:30 AM the winds and storm broke a couple of Crossarms. I'm waiting for a crew to get here to show them where to go.
When I left, it was cold, with a driving wind and mixed rain and snow, now at 3:20 it's calm and has warmed up quite a bit.
The way that wind ripped though here, it won't have any problem making it to Kansas by this afternoon. Those folks up North can keep that snow, but I sure did like to see the rain.
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Cdog911
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posted December 28, 2006 04:44 AM
They say it's slowing down a bit, which means more rain and more snow piled where it travels. This is another good thing about this forum; all you guys to the west and southwest of me can give me the heads up on these storm systems as they're approaching.LOL I'm hoping the wind holds up so it'll keep em pinned down for a day or two. Looking forward to Sunday and Monday. Tonight? K-State game against Rutgers.
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 28, 2006 06:47 AM
It rained off and on all night here, no wind. Every time the rain would stop the coyotes out front of the house would yip-howl for a minute or so. All night long.
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Az-Hunter
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posted December 28, 2006 08:55 AM
The last three or four weeks here, the coyotes have been running real good. Last week, I tied my best day calling coyotes(calling,not killing), called in 12 coyotes by 2pm. Only two singles, all the rest were multiples. Got out tuesday morning specifically for fox, we called two greys and one coyote. The coyotes and fox seem abundant, cats, on the other hand, have been hard to come by? Ive only called one big old tom, the rest, I presume, are in cages at Tims house.
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