I've used a mesh laundry bag with 3 or 4 deer livers in it. I keep it in the chest freezer when not in use. Every meat eater in the woods follow that trail.
I also do a lot of setting in my ATV tracks. Either blind sets in the actual tracks or dirt holes just off the track as seen to the right of the track in the photo.

Smoothing out your tracks in snow is just another activity that peaks their attention IMHO. The coyotes will still know you were there as simply removing your tracks will not remove your scent.

Spot On Bctomcat.

Scent or whether you were nearby is not the issue. Those are given. It’s making them walk where you want them to that is most important. They like to walk in trails. Their trails, or ours. Just use that to your advantage.

Totally understood when dealing with deep snow conditions of 10-12 inch or greater depth conditions, but that's not the conditions depicted in the original picture postings.

Understood.

Coyotes will step right in your boots tracks or any path you create in snow truck tracks etc... Cable them all the Time in paths I walk in when it snows..
Dont think they have the Reasoning skills to decipher what type of track it is other then From scent. In and out fast is best.

Same principle applies to deer hunting. Mow a path through the blackberries and they will come.
we have removed 51 coyotes from the tree blind this year
Amimals are lazy like humans and will follow the easy path.....

Holy cow, 51 coyotes from one location? Or even small area? I bet there isn’t 51 coyotes within a 5 mile radius around my property.

I agree a lot with what Saskbone said.
I seldom use gloves when setting snares and we're a long way from -25 degree temps.
While the terrain and the snow depth may be different, the basics are still the same.
If our snow was deeper , a snow mobile would be the way to go, as coyotes will follow those trails like a highway.

Yearly harvest that is documented was around 15-20000. It’s tough to know exactly but they( goverment)keep records of all animals trapped and what zone they came from. Every year they make a book and list how many coyotes, fox , beavers etc were caught in each zone. My guess is it’s a lot of work to make this book every year but it sure was nice to see what areas fur was coming out of. Probably a good percent of fur is not ever documented for one reason or another.

I’ll see if I can find one of the books and take a picture of a few pages

Ok my coyote numbers are off

Zone map


First row is coyotes next row is fisher third is fox


This picture corresponds to the last picture. 2008-2018

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That happens around here too

Can say from experience that dragging something behind you, be it a critter or snow sled to remove your foot prints does nothing but make the path to or from your sets packed down, in 3+ feet of snow, for the skinney skiing bunny snugglers to travel on. Only way I have found to keep them from being a PITA is to get your sets further than even the most dedicated bunny snuggler is willing to walk. Yes it might mean passing up on some areas that could be productive, however it keeps you from having to pull all your cage traps because some butthole sprayed your traps (videos of them doing so) with something that causes animals (cats) from entering or even going near your traps,

On short walk in trails I drag my feet to create a smoother more defined trail if i think(or give a reason) a cat or fox will use it.