Finally broke the seal on this season

YoteslayerWA

YoteslayerWA

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I have had a very slow start to the season. 0-17 on stands to be exact. I made the drive this morning out to the ranch I like to hunt only to be met by a dense fog. Visibility was no more than 60 yards. Not the kind of weather a hunter dreams of in a landscape that I can typically see for well over 1000 yards. The drive is an hour and a half so I decided to give it a go anyway.

I figured if it’s going to be foggy I might as well use it to conceal the truck and hit some spots I normally wouldn’t.

First stand I got set up on a wide open flat close to a spot I usually have good luck. I started off with some vole squeaks and in no time I hear foot steps moving my direction from my 8 o’clock. I soon see a coyote break from the fog and he was at 50 yards and coming to the call.

He spotted me and turned to leave so I gave him a couple lip squeaks and he turned back and started to come back to me. I gave him a quick woof and he stopped where I shot him at 30 yards.


I made 3 more sets before I had to make my way back to town in time for my curfew set by the wife.

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That's staying after it. My first year calling, I called in something on every stand which got me hooked. The next season only one bobcat (37 stands) and I missed it. This was using a light with the red led.

I regrouped, started scouting in the summer and found some great areas (public land), also switch to NV and couple years later Thermal where my average has worked out to be 50/50 over 14 years/611 stands.

Congrats on a nice coyote!
 
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WTG man.
We were in Spokane in early March and we're so enamored with the surrounding area that we went back and spent several days in September. Great country.
 
Just realized he was from Spokane. My brother lives in Liberty Lake and I’ve made 2 trips out there turkey hunting Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Going back this May for trip #3. Absolutely beautiful country. I almost took out 2 coyotes that came into my turkey calling but couldn’t Google if there was an open season fast enough, lol.
 
I believe Washington has some of the best landscape for hunting coyotes. I do the majority of my hunting in the central part of the state.

In Washington you can hunt coyotes 365 days a year as long as you carry either a small game or big game license. So next turkey season let that 12 gauge sing when the coyotes come in.
 
Yeah, about the time I saw I was legal they were long gone. Y’all’s coyotes look better in May than ours look anytime of the year here, lol.
 
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