I lost the first wolf I ever caught (Canada) ran right down the mining road and as far as I could tell It never left the road.

The other thing about drags Is If you have much open ground and you get any type of snow fall your going to be doing a lot of searching If you made a catch before It snowed.

That can easily be solved buy purchasing a Lazarus trapline dog. Haha, I'll be running about 1/4 of my traps on drags this season. I'm hoping my lab can use his nose to find fur haha.

All I will add to this is don't set on the side of a hiking trail. That's garunteed trouble.

I second that! Just had a problem not too far from where I live that made the local news although the sets where apparentlely legal. We need to use some common sense.

Putting a loose peace of flagging tape on your drag and as the trapped animal leaves the trap site with the drag the tape will come off the drag showing you the direction the trap animal was going.

I re-read this just so I could give some input. I only caught one coyote last year on a drag. Sabertooth. It was on the top of a river dyke. Coyote went off the tall grass bank away from the river towards the open corn stubble field. Even with the drag tips full of grass he only made it about 15 yards into the plowed stubble before one of the pointed prongs hung up on a sod head sticking up. Used about 11 feet of chain including the trap chain. They could easily change direction and get free for a short distance but don't appear to do that.