Very much a beginner here but I have gotten some very valuable info from you folks on this board over the last few years, thank you. After doing a little calling this morning, I was finally able to put a few sets in. Trying a few new things this year. Trying waxed dirt for the first time, I think I will like it. Also trying setting on a slight incline with a low spot running away so water will drain off rather than leaving a frozen hockey puck on top of my traps. It occurred to me I was over thinking things a bit though as I was answering questions from my hunting partner. I know how to bed a trap....I know how to add lure/bait/urine.....I know to have the pan be the low spot, I know to play the wind. With everything that I know, I was missing that one thing: set ON location. Not near it, not by it, not upwind of it,....ON it. So, I stopped trying to figure out how to bring them to my set. Find the choke points and bed the trap where they ARE travelling, and put something there that will make them stop to dig, or smell, or pee. I also set some snares where they ARE travelling, not where I think or hope they may or should be travelling. Every set today was on a confluence of more than one trail that currently has tracks on them. Wish me luck.
P.S.
I am done digging dirt holes in this concrete hardpan. Flat sets, pipe sets, and snares for me.