Thank you!! I thought I was the only one that didn't name every specific set a different name.

I saw a picture with 11 coyotes, all in "identical dirt hole sets", a few years ago and now the biggest difference between my coyote specific sets is whether I put three traps in one place or twice that many. I ask myself sometimes, "why fix it if it's not broken?"

Post the picture TJ. Multiple catches are always cool to see.

If you can find a mound of dirt... or make a few with a skid steer or loader.... that is a unique way to catch a yote, fox or bobcat. Works best if there is some ground cover. Don't know why but I suspect those critters will get on that mound for a better view of the surroundings, Also put a trap under something hanging from a tree branch, along a field edge. . A plastic bag, shiny tin... etc. Something to catch the critters eye and curiosity. I have caught a cat or two under small shiny wind chimes before. Guess it's true what they say... "curiosity killed the cat" These are not high number catch sets, but I have caught critters in sets like these. I guess they can be called fun sets.... kinda fun, if they work!!

Not my picture, but it was on this site a couple times. Said a part time trapper from Indiana did it. Only eight visible in this and it's the only view I can find. But it makes me want to give up on fancy sets?

Amazing !

Amazing. I find it odd they are all laying down.

Very cool picture. Good Job! whoever the trapper is.

Dave

I am sure the Doc will appreciate that.............

Hahaha.

3-4 weeks a year is part time, ain't it?

He got tree's ready to sell you know.

Recognized the bucket?

Ive tried these, can't seem to catch a thing with it

Staked hide set is one of my favorites. Exposed animal parts are illegal here so I lure the hide and stake it like you would anywhere else then cover it with dirt. They find it. I like to use front feet of fox or coyote. Deer hide works good too. Dry it out so it is hard and tough.
Post sets can be urine posts, scent posts, they can be a rock or stick or cornstalk. Set them like a flat set and out the trap down wind. We have a lot of corn so I pick the stalk that sticks out the most and put urine on it. Sometimes I put a lure at the base- sometimes I wipe call lure about 10'' off the ground. A coyote can see the stalk that sticks out more than the others and they head for that to see if anyone else marked it.

Mafia Set
Put a lot of coyotes in the dirt with that one.

Yes it does!

Double Dirt hole, dirt hole with trench, & feather set are my favorites for anything. Caught my 1st coyote on Double-dirt hole and my brother caught his 1st coyote on a feather set! (Using feathers isn't allowed in every-state though!) Feather sets seem to work best on Bobcats! I caught 3/4 of my Texas Bobcats on feather sets last season!

Well I ain't a big #s catcher but I knew this past season was going too be tough.I had to wait until Deer season was over man did that kill me.Rock hard ground blowing snow I had both Fox and yotes walk up to or over my sets.I got 2 fox and 1 yote but it was the best looking yote I have ever got looked like the ones they get out west silver and the white belly she fell to a pipe dream set in the field behind my house.I was trying too plow my driveway and I see this yote in my trap and a guy coming to it.He tells me you can't use snares in NY.I told him no kidding it's a MB650 and legal.Then he tells me his wife called the DEC I said no problem I got a 24hr check they never came.And I don't know wat it is but every couple weeks a yote will come right outside my house and howl and bark.I use too throw scraps in the weeds but the yotes started eating my chickens so that stopped.

Reviving this thread to ask for pictures of these sets?
Here is why
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6326866#Post6326866

Thanks Ken.

Would love to see some pics of that Mafia set. I ha e a similar set I will post in the above thread