baiting coyotes in ontario

[antiqueguy]

is it legal to bait coyotes I have gotten mixed messages about this for years I hunted them just by calling or randomly spotting one

 

[FLHTCUI]

What's the mixed message..as in what doe the Ontario Hunting Regs suggest?
Can't be anymore clear than there?
Rob

 

[CoonT]

Do people actually "hunt" coyotes? I thought is was done mostly on farms, and mostly as part of a 'pest management program.'

 

[Droopy78]

Yes it is legal to bait 'yotes in ontario

 

[antiqueguy]

Do people actually "hunt" coyotes? I thought is was done mostly on farms, and mostly as part of a 'pest management program.'

yep I don't go on trips or anything just a few farms within Essex county

 

[antiqueguy]

What's the mixed message..as in what doe the Ontario Hunting Regs suggest?
Can't be anymore clear than there?
Rob

only thing they talk about with baiting is moose and deer don't touch on anything else

 

[waltman]

Yes, bait away! One of the best ways is to freeze everything in a garbage pail full of water and then they can't drag it away.

 

[MattMoser]

What's the mixed message..as in what doe the Ontario Hunting Regs suggest?
Can't be anymore clear than there?
Rob

X2

Telling the CO you were told it on Gun Nuts will make you look rather..... Well..... You know.

Read the regs, stay out of trouble.

 

[chisholm]

To clarify any confusion about legalities of baiting or other things for that matter, call your C.O. before consulting cgn. Its better to get it right from them instead of relying on information from here.

 

[skypilot]

Pour meat scraps into 5 gal. plastic bucket, fill with hot water, place a metal coat hanger or other metal "loop" as a tie down and set outside to freeze solid(the hot water helps distribute blood throughout the meatsicle.)

Once frozen, place in truck cab, turn heater on high and drive to bait sight. the warm truck cab will just thaw the meatsicle enough to slide out of the 5 gal. bucket. Anchor meatsicle solid to tree, farm gate post, corner post , etc.

I have a spot where a large field joins a hardwood and cedar swamp thru a farm gate. I leave the gate open(to shoot thru) and place the meatsicle just inside the wooded area but visible from a hill 225m away.

They ravage the meatsicle come Jan/Feb and die thinking that the meatsicle killed them.

 

[antiqueguy]

X2

Telling the CO you were told it on Gun Nuts will make you look rather..... Well..... You know.

Read the regs, stay out of trouble.

would you like to show me where the regs mention baiting coyotes

 

[antiqueguy]

Pour meat scraps into 5 gal. plastic bucket, fill with hot water, place a metal coat hanger or other metal "loop" as a tie down and set outside to freeze solid(the hot water helps distribute blood throughout the meatsicle.)

Once frozen, place in truck cab, turn heater on high and drive to bait sight. the warm truck cab will just thaw the meatsicle enough to slide out of the 5 gal. bucket. Anchor meatsicle solid to tree, farm gate post, corner post , etc.

I have a spot where a large field joins a hardwood and cedar swamp thru a farm gate. I leave the gate open(to shoot thru) and place the meatsicle just inside the wooded area but visible from a hill 225m away.

They ravage the meatsicle come Jan/Feb and die thinking that the meatsicle killed them.

I was thinking of using carp and other non native fish(the kind that have to be killed on sight) as bait

 

[DVXDUDE]

If your goin to bait make sure you don't get winded sitting at the bait or you will be educating them and they will only come at night....

Then your just feeding coyotes....not hunting them

 

[CV32]

I was thinking of using carp and other non native fish(the kind that have to be killed on sight) as bait

I like that plan.

If your goin to bait make sure you don't get winded sitting at the bait or you will be educating them and they will only come at night.... Then your just feeding coyotes....not hunting them

Good point.

 

[Canuck525]

What's the mixed message..as in what doe the Ontario Hunting Regs suggest?
Can't be anymore clear than there?
Rob

Glad you cleared that up...Let me guess, you work for the government( just pulling your leg)....

 

[skypilot]

I was thinking of using carp and other non native fish(the kind that have to be killed on sight) as bait

I have never personally used "fresh fish." I have used canned fish like Jack Mackeral, Tuna, etc along with freezer scraps and dead chickens from a poultry farm.

They will literally eat anything. I shot one under a pear tree eating those hard pears we put up for winter.

As mentioned, play the wind and stay away if the wind is wrong, you only educate them and they simply never come back or only at night. For example the one place I regularly bait is 225m from the hill top hide.

 

[antiqueguy]

I have never personally used "fresh fish." I have used canned fish like Jack Mackeral, Tuna, etc along with freezer scraps and dead chickens from a poultry farm.

They will literally eat anything. I shot one under a pear tree eating those hard pears we put up for winter.

As mentioned, play the wind and stay away if the wind is wrong, you only educate them and they simply never come back or only at night. For example the one place I regularly bait is 225m from the hill top hide.

trust me its not so fresh after sitting dead for hours can't possess them live and can't thrown them back

 

[antiqueguy]

I like that plan.

I figure its sort of like killing 2 birds with 1 stone I go fishing for some invasive species and get to use them for more then fertilizer

 

[Superbrad]

They will go to carp as bait.... I use it for both bears and yotes....

 

[Superbrad]

X2

Telling the CO you were told it on Gun Nuts will make you look rather..... Well..... You know.

Read the regs, stay out of trouble.

Agreed... But regs at pretty clear here and no baiting limitations...