Was out myself last night on a mates permission answering a call by the farmer over lost fowl. The mate had just recently taken a vixen off the same farm but chickens where still disappearing. On a previous outing a cub was spotted around the area so most likely the cubs have taken over the roll of the vixen.

Any how, last night was successful and I nailed a vixen cub, ...point of the ramblings........... the cub was taken from the same spot, on the same ditch line, in the same field and on the same set up as the vixen was. So choke points or areas of interest are always good to cover.


Your problem is that that fox could now associate a similar situation / location with danger and avoid that area etc. Lamp / caller shy foxes' are the ones that have survived and know what's on the other end of the shiny object making that attractive noise and want none of it anymore. Good news is that there are foxes there and baiting the area is a good way of drawing them in. Bait several spots within the area

If the fox does not see or sent you and you miss a shot.. just wait and often as not they come back out after a short while.

Also

I have found that even the wary foxes are creatures of habit so if you bait the same place, say..every second day, with the same type of bait, they get used to an easy meal and you can lay in wait for them with good success.