Success at last!!

Congrats, both on your success and on your ethics for following up so diligently.

I think you're smart to have the decoy at least partially downwind, especially when you are dealing with so much thick cover. Coyotes seem to like to circle downwind before they come in...maybe not so much when they're in the open prairie, but definitely in a wooded situation like yours. I know people hate them...I myself shoot them whenever I get a chance...but they have got to be one of the most challenging and rewarding game animals we have.
 
Wrong Way said:
Just curious why you'd set your decoy downwind from your position......? If that's your SOP I think I know hy your success rate has been so low ;)
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All the dogs that have come in to bait or a call for me have come from downwind, it's what they seem to do here. That's also why I sat far back of the call, to try to get my scent away if possible.

I was AMAZED that this one ran down the road to the call. Typically they would work their way up in the shouldering woods and observe from there, never giving a shot. The woods here SUCK, been logged over so much it is spruce so thick a rock thrown into it would bounce back at you! No fields till you get to the Annapolis valley.

I can't tell you guys how many times I have snuck into a perfect calling spot, set up with a crosswind and done everything right and saw nothing. Only to come back the next day and find the coyote tracks all over where I sat. They circled in the woods and knew I was there. Thick woods suck.


Something I noticed as I tracked this dog for 1.5 km with a broken leg. It was ALWAYS downwind of me!
 
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