Showed up on back yard trail camera a few days ago. Have seen two grey foxes before several times; but, this is the first for a coyote. Had heard they were in the area. Set up is about 30 yards from the house.
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Sweet!
I think I see Sasquatch. Is there any fly patterns that use Sasquatch hair? ;o)
Coyote tail makes great streamers.
The underfur is a good dubbing.
Mask hairs are a good, maybe better, substitute for Hare’s ear/mask material. Especially if you like to tie larger nymphs.
All of this is better if the animal is harvested in the winter.
Buddy
Grn, are you sure that’s not a Virginia wolf? Careful, cause if it is, those are protected.
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
We have them all over in Connecticut. It’s amazing how there are many fewer folks with "outdoor"cats these days.
B A N G !!
The only good coyote…
Gotta agree with you there Big Bad Wulff. 
I was told once by someone that’s suppose to know to leave them alone if you are not having trouble. (dead pets, calves that sort of thing) He said if you kill one, then another one will move into its area and you may have trouble with the newcomer. I guess that makes sense, but I still go BANG when I get the chance.
hNt
Yeah, pretty much. Although I did hear a conservation officer once remark at a seminar that this is only a problem if you stop shooting them. 
Heheheheheh I just had a vision of Buddy sneaking through the woods with a pair of scissors
Mike 
SW VA, gods own country - My cousin has a cabin near Martinsville and he has seen numerous cyotes, he says they greatly reduce the groundhog population - I friend here in the Shenandoah Valley has a simular camera and has also photographed a coyote. I think there are more around than we realize, they dont show themselves…
Mike,
I don’t have to sneek through the woods. We don’t have those here. I just go out back with a big raw steak. The coyote comes up and I offer a trade. The steak for the tail. Sometimes it works ;).
I’ll go to great lengths for a good piece of tail.
Buddy
Buddy, I love that last line about the tail
Seriously though, in Nova Scotia, a woman was killed last year and just a few weeks ago in New Brunswick, a coyote mauled another woman when she was out on her lawn, she was fortunate and was able to beat it off.
Dwight
Coyotes are just about everywhere.
Here in Tucson, very few folks own cats that they let out at night. At least they don’t own them for long. There is a very healthy urban coyote presence throughout the city. Plus bobcats, owls, several large raptors, and the occasional cougar.
The coyotes aren’t usually dangerous to humans. Unless, of course, they are very hungry or sick (the coyote, not the humans).
I’m not sure which species I favor more in the interaction here. People seem easier to come by these days, but you can’t shoot them and use them for tying materials…sort of a conundrum ;).
Buddy