Need Coyote Trapping Info

[Dave1]

I am a feral wild hog trapper agent in Florida and would like to get some basic info on how to catch, trap, or snare coyotes.  We have a developing problem with an expanding population of coyotes and I would like to learn how best to begin reducing those numbers.  Calling with mouth blown and/or electronic callers has produced zero success.

Leg hold traps, if legal here, seem like they would be the most difficult and most trouble for a beginner to learn how to use and set correctly. In my area of responsibility there is a chain link and hog wire fence that runs several miles down one side of the property.  I was thinking that if I could find a crawl under or if I opened a hole in that fence and the coyotes began to use it, a snare set may work well and be easy for me to learn and use.  Trapping coyotes will be new to me so I need to start off with the basics.

Any ideas, suggestions, instructions of what to use and how to do it would be appreciated??  

Thanks, Dave
davisalf@aol.com

[Bogmaster]

Dave,snaring would indeed be the best way for a novice to begin on coyotes.I do carry videos on that subject.Though none of them are filmed in florida,the concepts are all the same, I also carry a general snaring book,which covers several species.
 I also believe the use of footholds and bodygrippers is illegal in florida.This leaves you with 2 options---snaring or cage traps,and cage traps are not a real option.
 Tom

[Wackyquacker]

Make certain that you allowed to uses snares as opposed to cable restraints (a politically correct way to refer to non-lethal snares.)

[coyotero]

Dave   While in college in Florida a rancher started loosing goats to coyotes.This was north of Lake Kissimee.I set  7X7 3/32" snares in the trails in the palmettos leading to the pasture with the goats.I snared 3 coyotes and the killing stopped.I used a 12" loop,12" off the ground,dead center in the trails.Used camlocks then would use Ambergs now.