EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Made a night hunt on a place we rarely hit at night, notorious spot for coyotes...  of the half dozen or so times we've hunted it at night over the years, every time have yotes rally on a bayed dog.  This time, actually had several bays busted up... "stolen" I might even say lol, by the sombitches...  >:(   Young dogs would bay up then yotes would swoop in raise hell and dogs would fall off acting all spooked... strange stuff, only had it happen on this one place!

Any of yall had this happen?

Lil' one Whaler/Spinner winded off the truck
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One is better than none!!!

Yes, especially on young dogs.

In fact we lost a few bird dogs to coyotes on the Packsaddle Ranch in OKlahoma.

Good hunt Noah. Once when we were quail hunting in west Texas we had a young dog get separated from us and we couldnt find her. While driving back to the camp house I was looking out across a huge flat with mesquite trees in the distance and I could see that dog perched up in a fork of a large mesquite. I turned the jeep off and started jogging that way and as I got closer I could see a large yote under that tree circling like a shark trying to figure out how to get up there to her. I had to start throwing sticks and rocks at the thing to get it to leave. I had to hand it to the young dog for having enough snap to climb up in that tree!

Sounds like you need to kill some coyotes.

The coyotes coming to the bay is likely a territorial defense response.  Coyotes don't like any other canine in their territory.

Staging a bay might be a good way to whack some coyotes.

Dave

good spotlight good aim should fix that..

i have had that happen before, but i am running plotts and the last few times the yotes have lost the battel. i had one time where at the house by my pond it sounded like it had to be 20 or so yotes, we were outside and my wife got scared. i have 16 hounds that i run deer on big game black and tans and july/walker crosse. i opend the gates and let them all out. since then i have not had a problem around the house anymore lol.

HAHA, HORJUA, I'd love to drop some yote dogs on this piece!!!   ;D

No doubt they are bad bad on this place, during the day don't usually have trouble... but at night, gettin' hard to get to a bay before they blow it up...  Had four different hogs bayed up that night, one was so bad, we were actually worried they were attacking the bay dogs and began to flat out run to the bay to fight it was so loud... strange sensation pushing through heavy swamp at night hearing a big pack of coyotes fighting yards away and lookin' down at the garmin and seein' your dogs right in the middle...  :-\

Don't really have the time to hunt the daddy didn't marry mommys, big place with waaaay more yotes than I have patience...  may just run a rougher pack next time as a caught dog doesn't seem to care as much about a few yotes barkin' in his face lol..

see if you can locate some dog runners and put the hounds on them, lot of people looking for place to run there dogs, i do mean yote hounds or fox hounds

try puttin a dead sheep in a large trap with a trip rope on it.  Seen a boy do that once.  Of course if your gonna do that, you could always sit in the bed of the truck after you get one in with a 223 and a spotlight and wipe out quite a few in one night.

Never had a yote make me lose a hog, but did have one come in and was trying to help catch out with my dog Bo. Bo had a hog caught in a swamp and when I came to him I see this yote trying to grab the hogs back leg. When he saw me and my pup coming he buggered out of there with my pup on his a**!!
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x2...especially at this time of the year when they have pups...a friend of mine has a 3/4 mtn cur 1/4 pit that loves a good coyote...that dog can make the fur and poop fly from one... ;D