Seems like the coyotes are passing by the sets, or not committing to the set very well. Some are straw sets, couple sets, and three step down sets in snow banks along well used trails. Don't really know what it wrong, traps are not froze down, and all traps have been in two to three weeks with the same results. The trail sets the coyotes come up to the trap, then abruptly stop and turn around before the step stick.

Are trying any urine sets gland and urine usually will get better response during mating time.

No gland lure. Using a meat based lure in the step down sets, and coyote (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) on the scent posts. No scents or baits in the trail sets.

Are you able to drop a couple of snares in their trails? The breeding season is on so that might be the problem now.

Only one trail may be able to get snare. Unfortunately, it is often traveled by deer too, so don't want to deal with that. Deer have been missing the footholds, but no coyotes.

I think maybe the better set might by in the big hayfield. Was driving through today, and there are a bunch of tracks investing all of the tufts Of grass that are sticking up.

Sometimes it’s hard to trap areas like that where they’re hunting randomly. The trails they use coming in/out of the field are a higher percentage bet.

The coyotes are showing you how, Make a few urine sets on those grass clumps with droppings...

Only problem with setting in the trails coming to the field is they aren't really using the same trail(s). It appears to be totally random. There seems to be a well visited spot near a little low spot where most of the trails intersect. I'm thinking this would have my highest percentage of chance of getting one.

We don't have the numbers and the coyotes don't seem to have read the same articles or watched the same videos as I have as they may or may not travel the same paths everytime. As a result, traps and snares may sit untouched for several weeks before seeing any action. I would suggest making sets whenever you seen sign and make sure everything is working for when they come back through.

Good logic, and what I was thinking with snares. They are cheap enough for a dozen. Time is limited per day, so the amount of sets would be greatly depend on how much time I have.

True and if you can set them so you can check them from a distance then so much the better for you. A good set of binoculars or spotting scope can save a ton of leg work when it comes to checking traps.

Brush too thick around me to use glass. The open fields would work good, but for the most part it's beneficial to drive by then to me.

Maybe your fussing to much at your sets human scent doesn't bother them but to much at 1 location does There hasn't been enough snow here in years for any kind of trails when there was I set anything sticking out of the snow from the snowmachine seat packed a spot down in the track piece of wax paper whisk broom a little snow on the trap plastic sled went over the top Burned wood at the time so a long chain stapled to a block of firewood was a drag Yes sometimes the sun melted the snow off he wood and critters peeded on it But the light never came on This was not a big operation

I often thought of that also, but like you stated, there isn't much for definite trails. I have however just located a well used fox den with a very good trail run going to and from I'm going to keep on my radar.

I have always had better luck in fields than directly on trails with traps. It has to be a pretty specific setting in a trail so you don’t get deer flipping traps where I trap. I’ll often stage nice bright birch logs or Dobbin’s style dirt mounds in clearings and open area in the summer if there is no other feature that really sticks out. I have even used old truck tires. Seems like coyote can’t go by an object that sticks out in an open area. I’ll hit them with last seasons urine or drop some shelled corn under them for mice to find and it seems like it doesn’t take long before they are investigating. By fall they are ready to set. I am usually trying to reduce coyote numbers in an area vs. just catching numbers most years. I can get more sets per clearing this way.