530 - Trapping Bobcats and Coyotes to Boost Turkey Populations with Bill Smith
The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories
Andy Gagliano
4.6 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Trapping Bobcats and Coyotes to Boost Turkey Populations with Bill Smith
This week, Bill Smith joins Cameron and Andy to discuss trapping bobcats and coyotes. Trapping these predators can benefit your turkey populations not just during nesting and brood rearing seasons, but throughout the entire year.
I see more and more videos on social media of these predators killing adult wild turkeys. I know this is not a new phenomenon, but, with predator populations increasing around the country due to low fur prices, there is no doubt predators are taking more wild turkeys as opportunities arise. Your adult turkey hens are especially susceptible to predators while they are sitting on their nests full time in the spring. Eliminating coyotes, bobcats, and foxes should help you to have more turkeys on your hunting property.
Bill Smith has a YouTube channel that is primarily focused on trapping these predators, and he is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to removing some of these animals from the landscape. In this podcast, Bill offers tips on trap sizes, baits, lures, sets, and pretty much anything and everything in between.
This episode will help you to become a better trapper, and trapping will help your property to become a better place for turkeys to flourish. Listen in!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Turkey Hunter podcast, the original All-Turkey All the Time podcast with your co-hosts Andy Galliano and Cameron Weddington. |
| 0:09.6 | In our weekly podcast, we're going to bring you some wild turkey calling tips like this. |
| 0:14.9 | From there, we're going to go into, she's aggravated. |
| 0:17.6 | There's another hen that's challenged her, or she's challenging another hand, |
| 0:21.2 | she's going to cut an excited joke. |
| 0:35.1 | The turkeys typically don't like, I think, more times than not, |
| 0:41.7 | to travel in an easterly direction into the sun first thing in the morning, |
| 0:46.2 | especially after he gets up. |
| 0:48.4 | It's a blinding thing. |
| 0:51.2 | It's just like you. |
| 0:52.5 | It's hard for you to see into the sun. |
| 0:55.3 | So if I have a choice, I'm going to try to make it |
| 0:59.3 | so that I'm going to be on the west side in the morning, east side in the afternoon of a turkey. |
| 1:05.1 | Exciting live hunts like this. |
| 1:07.4 | Oh, I got that coming. |
| 1:30.7 | Okay. like this. Holy crap, they're coming. Oh, God. |
| 1:42.0 | Then we're going to teach you how to cook your bird with advice such as this. |
| 1:48.2 | With some fresh rosemary and garlic, and then cool that off and spread that along the inside of that butterflyed turkey breast that we've seasoned on both sides. |
| 1:52.8 | Wildlife management tips for your property, especially with turkeys like this. |
| 1:57.0 | If you look at the type of habitats that turkeys need for nesting and brooding, that tends to be |
| 2:04.3 | habitat that can be managed more successfully with growing season fire than with dormant season fire. |
| 2:10.9 | And hopefully along the way, we'll get plenty of these. |
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