I think you mean snares and traps specifically for beaver. I believe land snaring is legal everywhere as long as your not setting on a path traveled by people

Yes I understand but my ? is whats that statement have to do with trapping coyotes in timber. It has nothing to do with the thread thus should be deleted.

No, he’s absolutely correct. Snares for coyote are not allowed on public land.

its not legal on any wildlife area, national forest or state park that allows trapping to use snares. Unless your beaver trapping with a lottery permit.

because people are talking about snares for an area that the OP is trapping where its illegal to do so.

Should that not have been posted in the first place other than: "A reminder...you can't set snares on public hunting/trapping areas in ohio without a lottery permit for beaver and they have to be at least an inch of water over the bottom of the loop." Nobody knows the laws of all states or provinces

Thats the entire point of Paul requiring locations in your profile.

BS

If there are roads or jeep type trails and you can't set on them, look for short trails where critters shortcut bends in roads/trails. Because wind directions vary and doubles are to be had I like set both sides on, or near, roads, deer trails and such.

You may still have some time catch some tracks in a fresh snow, if it snows again you might want to follow some trails. Deer hunters seem to have very good luck capturing coyotes on their cameras. If you study the picture carefully you can determine which direction they are traveling no doubt based on the wind, you will also note the position of the head and nose. Alot of coyotes will leave the deer trail and hunt parrallel to the trail based on wind direction and they will actually drive the deer into the rest of the pack. (ambush site like a apple thicket) You might also want to find core denning areas this spring. Spend more time in the woods and you may pick up a few more coyotes. You are only working 300 acres so it should not be that difficult. Coyotes do howl routinely in the morning and the evening, some big time trappers use this to locate family units and work the areas that are hot driving by the dead areas. Coyote are the same in NM, AZ and NY, they should be similar in Ohio.

X2 on the just sucks. They spend plenty of time in timber in my area, but catching them there in footholds sucks. Snares in the woods, footholds in the open. I don't know why, but if I had to trap in the woods I would just quit.