Time to end food plots?

[strawhead]

Man, I am becoming discouraged. I am beginning to wonder if I am doing more harm than good!!! The deer have NO TIME TO RELAX. This is a VERY SMALL sampling of the pictures we get of these of these hunters.

 

[Bc4abc]

What u need ...is a bunch of steel brackets for these guys......

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[IkemanTx]

Ya, trapping/hunting pressure on those guys will severely limit the amount of daylight activity they do.


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[MoBuckChaser]

Its tough for a lot of us to trap when we are hours away, and only get to the hunting land every other week.

 

[strawhead]

That and the fact that 2 in the pack are carrying collars and it is a federal offense.

 

[Bc4abc]

Can u find someone local who traps?

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[strawhead]

These are all wolves and there is no open season.

 

[Bc4abc]

Strawhead....where are u located ?

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[strawhead]

NW Wisconsin

 

[MoBuckChaser]

Those are all wolves?

 

[Bc4abc]

Can u trap coyotes?.....if so I would set a crap load of coyote traps.....

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[strawhead]

Here is one with a collar.

 

[MoBuckChaser]

Look like coyotes to me.

Yep!

 

[MoBuckChaser]

Here is one with a collar.View attachment 10704

Now that one looks like a wolf and is, the others you posted do not in the pictures.

 

[Bc4abc]

i still say i would trap all collarless coyotes ...

 

[chucker66]

Bushy tail means Coyote. They eat a lot of mice and grasshoppers that are in your plots but I would still thin them out. The collared one is definitely a wolf. Must not be very many or you would not see the yotes.

 

[wiscwhip]

I see one in the first set of pics that I think might be a "w", the rest definitely look like yotes IMO? The first pic and the last 3 pics sure look like the same dog and a yote at that.

 

[kabic]

So here are some dumb question. If we are following the letter of the law, and we are trying to trap coyotes and catch a wolf (especially one with a collar) is the trapper suppose to release it? Would the stress of being caught, and then pinned to the ground with a catch stick so it could be released cause the wolf to avoid your property in the future?

 

[Bc4abc]

So here are some dumb question. If we are following the letter of the law, and we are trying to trap coyotes and catch a wolf (especially one with a collar) is the trapper suppose to release it? Would the stress of being caught, and then pinned to the ground with a catch stick so it could be released cause the wolf to avoid your property in the future?

i've done some trapping...and i would have to say that being caught then released would cause a coyote or wolf, to high tail it, never to be seen again in my opinion,

 

[MoBuckChaser]

Who in their right mind would attempt to release a wolf? Or why would you? I would think a trapper could dispatch that thing and have that collar in the river so fast, no one would be none the wiser.