UB,l just wht do you mean "play with a coyotes brain". Do you mix up different coyote vocalizations? Two years ago about three days after the close pr fox season, I stopped ao a rural road just to see what was there. I had my stream light ultra stinger with a red lense with et and a knight and hale bulb squeaker. I bean to squeeze the squeaker and in a few minutes I saw eyes on a hill in the woods. I kept squeaking and he kept coming in for a look. He was thirty yards away and he must have realized something was fishy so he ran back into the woods. I waited a few minutes and began to squeak again. Same fox, same squeaks, and he came within thirty yards again. He then ran back up the hill and stopped about 150 yards away and just looked at me.I waited a couple minutes and started my squeak sequence again and guess what? Third times the charm. He came back down thew hill again to within thirty yards. At that point I laughed and told the fox "Mr.fox dude, you're busted". That was the last time I saw him.
Was trapping creek chubs yesterday to go cat fishing last night. I pulled in my first minnow trap and I had three 2 to 3 feet long water snakes in my trap with two large dead chubs. The snakes were dead because they could not come up for air. I went to my other trap and I had a couple dozen 3 to 4 inch chubs. I went to my fishing spot and about after an hour or so all I had hitting my chubs were turtles. It was about midnight. All of a sudden I heard a pack of coyotes over my left shoulder somewhere around 150 t0 200 yards. I had my ultra stinger with a red lenze, my bulb squeaker, and a couple of night and hale mouth calls. Another guy there had a 22 mag rifle so I tried to bring one in. No luck. They stayed back in the woods. I Called soft and easy for about one minute and waited. Nothing. Then I went to my bulb squeaker and made it sound like a whimpering rodent. Again nothing. My last effort was a wounded coyote pup I made with my mouth call. Still nothing. I thought I threw some pretty good calls at them so I don't know why they didn't come in. That area gets alot of people traffic and I'm sure that anyone that gets a new call goes there to try it out. I think that is why they held up back in the woods. What do you think?