I have caught coyote, coon, gray fox, skunk, and opossum in this set. I make mine in the woods by raking all the leaves into a V shaped pile that is taller in the back of the V, set a trap at the wide part of the V, add brush on the leaves, put some bait in the back of the V, and a shot of fox urine on the leaves. Have you used a set like this, how do you make it and what kind of bait or lure do you use.

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Have you ever caught a bobcat with this set. Sound a lot like what they do with bait out of my cubbies when they drag it out.

I've had really good success using the trash mound on cats. Any good bait and or lure will work, give it a shot of bobcat pee and add some feathers if you can and a bobcat won't be able to resist on its next trip through.

I will have some coyote remakes look somewhat the same as a trash mound I just try to keep the backing lower and make it a walk through style.

I've done it with pine needles clumps like a hay set but clump of natural duff or pine needles.

I have not caught a bobcat in this set, I think it would be a great bobcat set, back when I used this set a lot we didn't have many bobcats

It will work on Bobcats good. Our bobcat season is long with no limit either.

yep, put 1 or 2 feathers, if legal, in the point of the V.
Perfect place for an exposed pan set tween your guiding.

I done a remake on a set that was set for coyote from the start and caught a coon and made a pile of the mess on the catch circle and pile it and put bait in the front of the pile and urine and lure on top of the pile and trap in front and caught a coyote .

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This time of year it's about one of the only sets we can make quickly and effectively. Love this set in a picked bean field. Take your boot and kick a big pile of bean chaff into a pile about a foot high and couple feet across. Looks like one of many you normally find in a picked soybean field anyway from chaff piles the combine leaves here and there after harvest completed.
At one end of the pile bed a trap and hide some bait on that trap side putting bait under the bean chaff pile. I haven't made a V out of the pile as mentioned but just made a pile of bean chaff and it looks like all of the other low rounded piles in the same field but usually looks a little darker and fresher than those so it sticks out better, and we make it right along edge of travel way and tracks. Can put a little call lure there or coyote pee too.
I've taken a lot of coyotes and late season coon at this set. Make it about 10 feet out from edge of a long running fencerow in the bean field, or edge of weedy ditch, water way draw, etc going through the bean field...some natural travel route. The pile sticks out from rest of flat ground for eye appeal and the bait location in the pile on side with the bedded trap puts them where the trap is.
Ground is so hard here this time of year I have to use a pick axe to make beds, and dirtholes are no fun to chip out but kicking up a pile of loose bean chaff works pretty good to hide bait and get eye appeal.
And is so easy...a kid can do it. See below pics.
Jim

Trash pile in a picked bean field. Here is my son gunner putting one in. This was from a few years ago.



And success a couple nights later!

Works Jim IF (and I mean IF) the combine has slow or "choke" spots where the beans come in too fast for the header and feeder house to digest resulting in lots of heavier chaff spots or mounds. Normally a combine going too fast or a "plugged" spot will leave a lot of residue in one (the right) area for me to use. This year (due to the slower and probably more correct harvest speed) the bean residue was chopped and spread as evenly as I have seen it 30 years. Done in a damper, wetter few weeks also made the chaff "stick" to the soil due to lots of combine, semi, grain cart traffic etc. (the drier is always the better). Roughest bean ground I can remember driving a pickup over too!!!!. More and more guys planting cover crops in the harvested bean ground directly after harvest too. With all that, I did not make one buried bean trash pile set (whereas I usually make 1/field per year-bummer). Average 30-40 per year but this time it would take too much effort (remember I'm Lazy) to find enough in a 50' circle to cover a trap (and my boys are old enough to know if they go with me they get to do the hard stuff,,,, maybe I have a chance with the grandkids LOL). So I had to use other sets in those locations,,,,,,, but when conditions are there,,,,, I agree and will use them regularly.

Was a weird year for sure, Wife.
We made some by piling up weeds and dead grasses from the nearby fencerow and weedy ditches we made these close ot out in the bean fields too. The piles of weeds and grasses worked just fine too.
Jim

I like the chaff set also , I’m getting ready to go make a set in a few minutes where the beans are cut very short without much bean straw available. In this case I’m going to use some tall grass that got bunched up by a bush hog in the road ditch. Normally I use some bailed beans that I cut out of one of my food plots a couple of years ago, but any bailed straw or grass hay will work.

In this set I will be using a mouse nest and a couple of unlucky mice if the nest is still being used. What do you all like using for bait ? I will admit this set has seen just about any combination of baits lures and urines .

Corn stubble works well also, just have a corn stock in the back of the v for lure ,urine. This time of year I like a good gland lure.

I only make them on a reset, and only if the caught animal has raked up a lot of trash and ruined the set. Most of the time it was a dirt hole originally. I catch cats in them every year. Good set!,

Hide some bird seed in it & it might become a natural mouse nest.

Years back I had problems with cubbies, trash sets and plain dirtholes with Fox, Coyote, Coon & Bobcat just checking my sets and not working the set. Frustrating to see tracks, but not working.
I started to place my trap where they stood back or pass thru. My catch numbers increased with different trap placement.

I found Ed & Richard's video to be spot on with how I do it.
They do a good job of explaining how & why.
Watch at the 7:45 minute mark.

Perfect, Hern. That is a great video.
Jim