Dry spell

After a long summer have any of you just seem to have lost you ability to call in a single dog? I mean last winter I was averaging about 1-3 and now I'm 0-20 or so. It so frustrating.! I don't know what i'm doing different. If any of you fellas have had this happen to you. What did you do to fix it or whatever. I don't know. . . I think I'm losing my mind over here.
Hope you all are having some good luck tho.

haha. welcome to calling coyotes!

everybody has stretches like that.

The only thing I can figure is to keep going out. I don't travel too far from home, and I've got a couple routes that I rotate through with different stands. I've hunted these routes and stands for the last 10 years or so with good success.

Having said that, most of the time, the fall is the easiest time to call and kill. Then there's a lull around the holidays, (I think a lot of guys go out because they have days off), then it seems to pick up again in Feb-March.

In my area, I hunt only the mornings till 11 or noon. And some days, I'll call in or see on stand several dogs, one day in paticualar I killed 4 in 3 stands and called in 6 total in 4 stands. They were just active and receptive that day. But I've also done that same exact route of stands and not even seen a dog.

I try to have an encounter, meaning, call in or see on stand 1 dog per 3 stands. That's pretty good around here. I try to kill at least 1 dog every time I go out.

So to have a 20 stand dry spell, really isn't too bad. Last year I remember going 33 stands or so without even seeing a dog. That's the beauty and frustrating part of coyote hunting.

Good luck, keep going. Learn and observe. Figure out what is going on in your area.