Some will, some not, and I don't know why makes it a fav topic for ne.
The ones that wont cross the line showed me to bed new trap on clean side and small amount scent on dirty side.

Cable slide. Bob J shared this. Place a few stops on cable. As you catch crimp one away from stressed cable area so not to kink same place.
Not an always thing, great to preserve trail and hide animal.

Oh and deer step over while fur steps down,, mostly lol.

Can feel the experience while reading, good read.

And I just so happened to have a catch in one of my pre-hooked drag sets today and have decent pictures of it.

Before:

The dead limb is mostly covering the dirt hole and has some lure under it a some coyote urine on it.

After:

The dirt hole is visible and the coyote shredded the dead limb after the catch but the trap bed/dirt hole is not destroyed.

The Catch:

The dead grass and leaves were ruffled up and the sapling chewed on but it did not appear the yote had spent hardly any time near the trap bed.

The Remake:

I had to round up a new dead limb but the same trap went back in the same bed, ready for another customer. Lots of coyote smell but no sharp visual contrast like a typical catch circle.

This might not work for you folks that are dealing with frozen ground but is works good most of the time here.

Great pictures, Harold. I actually like that color phase of the coyote. Hard to beat stage for speed when resetting.

Weight Bros, I’ve never heard of the stops on the cable. That’s not a bad idea for the right situation.

Just caught a second coyote in a dirt hole remake. A few days after the remake I had tracks around the set about a foot from the trap. I added a second trap in the area, about 12" from the other trap and caught a nice female yote this morning. The trap in front of the dirt hole was fired but the one holding her was the one from the outside. It could be that the first dog was a male and this female was leery of the scent he left.

I think it’s worth mentioning…I always re-lure/bait/urine a remake. I’ve heard people say there’s enough smell there already but all that smell is spread out. There is no overwhelming focal point of lure. I like to use the same smell. It may be all over the place from the last catch but if you provide that focal point the next coyote (target animal) will have a bullseye, so to speak.

Gotta agree with that method... I like to spread the bait, lure and urine around a bit to keep Wile-E busy looking and forget about his feet.

I like enough bait (food) down a hole they feel it's worth entering the catch circle for. Not only alot but something they really like to eat. Free hotdogs are ok but give out free ribeyes and you will have more takers kind of approach. Enough coyote smells and curiosity already there for me.

Impressive experience and knowledge here. This is the type of discussion that makes this website great!

USMC - I wish I could work like you do. Here opportunities are not very plentiful so no room for error. Drags would be great, but too many people, houses, and liberals. I must catch quickly, anchor securely, and check early.

QBD - Great system! I can have nice dirt, mud, snow, standing water, frozen dirt and back around all in one week. Dealing with that can be harder than trapping. And harder than that is getting and keeping permission on patchwork land.

MChewk - I agree with you absolutely. J hooks are used once. If I open it, it is replaced. No S hooks at all since my welding is destructive, ugly, and unreliable. Quick links are my friends and get tightened with a wrench and screwdriver. Set for a Coyote and anchor for a moose. I have ends ready to easily change anchor methods using a quick link - single stake in frozen ground, double stake in nice ground, cable stake in heavy mud where it seems best, or slide cable to make something disappear. It is easier to keep tools and gear clean than reclean everything. Clean stays clean and stinky stays stinky.

Good point, seems I get better responses when I insult their nose by reluring with a strong gland mix or LDC for a distinct focal point. I use the droppings from the caught coyote for the backing.

A red by-product from processing chickens (or other) also worked well in that situation.
Place something new, they hone in.

Wayne has a unique approach to using drags and remakes. I’ll see if I can get pop to chime in.

I use a lot of bait at each set too. I think I finally got my bait perfected so it doesn’t cost me much to use produce it.

I just kick the dirt up and make a walk thru set....guess our coyotes are not a bright as the rest of the country...also take bobcats in these walk thru sets....

Here’s an example of a remake. I didn’t go out of my way to flatten the original catch circle but you can see both the original trap, which is reset, and the new trap on the edge. It has a whole new smell on that clump of grass.

Is that a faint trail on top the bank to the right? Classic old school fox set.
Also like the spot by the backing half in the circle on right.
But I'm viewing a pic, you are there.

That’s a trail alright. I catch a couple fox there each year.

Here’s the remake spot with another today.

Good job John...that’s a good population of coyotes.

That’s also some very good dirt to work with ! Mike and I would have a mud hole to work with after a little snow like that . Keep killing them John,
Good job !

USMC47, Our remakes almost always include a coon, opossum, badger or skunk, IN THE EARLY SEASON farm country. When you hit cold weather (What's that?) those critters are hole up in a den so the rambling non-targets are less of an issue at a site. I swear that the home range on those non-targets covers a big chunk of real estate where habitat is marginal and the food-water needs are a distance from any denning sites - hence they are in the catch circle from the beginning to the end of the warmer weather. From my limited view, the coyotes get shy of a circle more so here in January/February than November if the snow/winter/temps are average. If they have been bucking snow for 60 days they will work a buried bait remake circle to fill that empty tummy about any time. All my remakes DO NOT incorporate a visible dirt hole. For me, its leaf rake the land shape, bury a baseball size of meat, reset, arrange some foot guides and go. And MChewk, when you reset your soybean chaff remakes, try to make it like a hay set with bits of food in the pattern, (get soybean residue from afar if needed) it may help. Has worked for me for a long time.................. the mike