I have only ever used two baits mark & Junes widow maker and cavens terminator. No luck with either....
Is it my sets or bait, i just started trapping a month ago and have caught one fox in a post set.
They get 2 feet away from bait but never commit.....

This comes up way too often. The best bait/lure is the one that works for you at your sets in your area. Season and weather and availability of food, cover, and a bunch of other factors including your set come into play. What works for.me.may not work for you and the opposite holds true. Good luck figuring it out. If it we're easy women and children would do it.

Don't feel left out. I also was using the very same baits as you have and nothing ,zilch. I went back to using natural local baits such as road pieces, deer, rabbit, etc., and started doing much better. I was beginning to think if the bait wasn't natural and from native food sources the coyotes and fox weren't interested but then I caught two 'yotes this year on Mighty Dog dog food in a can ( Lamb and Rice to be exact ) so go figure.

Tis true. I tried a well known bait. Said the coyotes would dig at the hole for months after it was gone! Best possum taker on the market! Yotes never touched it.

I have had good success on fox with commercial baits from well know bait makers...Not on coyotes though. Natural, local baits work best for me. Deer liver, tainted deer meat, muskrat and tainted deer lungs have worked best for me. Beaver has been so, so.

Thanks for the info freeze, i appreciate it!
I get what you're saying strike..... Thanks for the luck figuring it out

Been 10's of thousands of predators killed on these products. http://www.derricks-nm.com/Lures.html

Amen....don't forget good quality urine too.

Caven's Hiawatha Valley is a commercial bait that works on coyotes. Chicken works well also. Buy the pre-cooked whole rotisserie chicken at Kroger or Costco, eat the chicken yourself... it's delicious, save the scraps and bones to use for bait.

I have done well over the years with O'gormans Powder River Paste Bait and Caven's Hiawatha Valley. Recent years I've done well with a Bait Asa Taught me to make. Usually do not use bait till it is real cold.

I use a lot of bait for coyotes down here in the deep South. My two most used baits are ground beaver tails that are making black oil and ground deer meat with deer stomachs and livers added in. The beaver tail bait doesn't need any preservative or antifreeze. The deer meat bait needs both. I add a little skunk essence to some containers of these baits as a changeup.

This is my second year trappi,g and last season I caught 15 coyotes on mainly deer meat and some cheap dog food, but this year so far I've caught 8 yotes, 6 bobcats and 3 fox and all have came off sets with weisers horsemeat predator bait or Mark June's baits and lures and weiser urines. Good luck finding what works best for you, I'd definitely try weiser baits and lures if I were u

I hear good things about weiser lures and urines. will order and try some next season

Cletis appleroad horsemeat bait

I need to try Cletis' bait, but I have had great success with Andy Weiser's Horse Meat and Range Boss. I might eat the range boss if I ever get into a pinch.

The guys at Hoosier trapper supply make some pretty awesome stuff called Top Dog. That stuff is Stout and the batch I got was preserved fresh.
Also the Hiawatha Valley is a great Tainted bait.

Seven Oaks chunky cat, I had success with it, but the main reason is that i could stab a stick in it and pin it down in the back of a hole or at a flat set

A thought New.. From my mentor. He was of the opinion that more was not better. When I read here of people saying animals came within 5 feet or 5 yards and didn't commit I think like Sid did that a teardrop of bait or call lure put off enough scent to go much farther than that. He felt too much could overwhelm the animals and take " what is that" curiosity factor out of it.
Good trappers set so close to where the quarry naturally travels one wouldn't think it would take much, he was very sparing when he did pee posts as well for the same reason.

Maybe something to it, he was a very successful trapper.

Osky

Test before season. Best way to stay busy in the fur shed. I unfortunately only had one good run at them this season. But because I tested and only used what the k9s told me to I managed 19 k9s in 3 days. In my opinion and a lot of old timers preseason testing is the best way to go. Give it a try next season. Good luck

cracklins and wiley 500 hawbakers works for me

I quit using bait awhile back. Lure/gland little urine now. Catch rate still pretty much the same but non targets are definitely lower. That said, I think most commercial baits are more lure like than bait.