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Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Fuzzy » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:35 am

If you had to chose the best, couple hour window to hunt coyotes, what time would that be? Feel free to explain why also.


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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby dan » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:14 am

the hour before sunrise. I think that yotes are less suspicious in the morning after running around all night, but still need to be shot before daylight.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:07 pm

Got this Lady 10-minutes before end of legal...

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Also a couple others during that same magical twilight time too - I used a fawn bleat to call them in!
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby solocam88 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:45 pm

1: Full moon after midnight. 2: early morning (when you can barely see.) 3. Last minutes of light in the evening also when you can barely see.

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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby vanceg » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:20 pm

I prefer afternoon hunts. I've called them in many times in the morning but it seems my percentage is a bit higher in the evening. I never hunt at night. I always thought my luck may have been better in the evening because they had empty bellies as opposed to them being full in the morning after a nights worth of hunting.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Fuzzy » Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:16 am

Thanks for the help guys. Going to try to get out this weekend. Hopefully I will have something to report.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Northlake » Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:22 pm

Mornings have always been hands down my best for yotes and fox. hour before light till about 2 hours after first light.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Zap » Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:26 pm

Full moon with snow on the ground.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Stanley » Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:54 pm

Northlake wrote:Mornings have always been hands down my best for yotes and fox. hour before light till about 2 hours after first light.

I agree.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:00 am

Stanley wrote:
Northlake wrote:Mornings have always been hands down my best for yotes and fox. hour before light till about 2 hours after first light.

I agree.


X3. Much more activity in the morning. I've even had them come in on a string in the morning.
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby Ragepassthru » Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:14 am

We've gotten way more coyote pics on our trail cams this year than ever before!! It's ridiculous. The majority of pics were around 8 or 9 pm. That being said, the one I shot with my bow this year was in the morning, about 7:30 (hour after sunrise). This was in a spot we haven't been using any cams tho. One of the landowners I hunt on is going to start doing some coyote hunting with me starting in a week or two. Good luck thinning them out guys :)
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Re: Absolute best time of day or night to hunt yotes

Unread postby yungbuck » Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:53 am

Good info
I have heard and seen yotes on some of my hunting propertiesoso thinning them has my interest

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