How long do you guys keep your canine sets in the same place without getting one?

A lot of variables involved make it hard to answer that question. My catch rate really drops after a week in an area. But we have a good population so there's usually more that will keep wandering through occasionally. But I've also had catches after 80+ days. Just a lot of variables involved on how long you wait. For the most part my experience is the best chance at catching the coyote is the first visit. My experience is their intrest level drops after that. If your new and struggling my suggestion is set more traps in new areas. More is better.

I agree with Yes Sir. If I'm going past a set anyways, I'll leave it but will pull it if I have to treck out to just that set. Experience will help answer that question for you.

I leave them about two weeks. That is dictated by when I have to get back to work.

However long I’m on a property. If I’m there for 2 weeks, I leave it two weeks. If catching is good and I stay 4 weeks then it’s 4 weeks. Cameras show me that sometimes coyotes come through once a week to once every three weeks. I want a trap there for when they come back through or however long I’m there.
What I have learned from this site and PM’s is set it and leave it. Unless I get inches of rain, I don’t add more urine, lure, or bait. Let it sit.

Thank you!

I will leave some sets out the whole season, when you remove the local coyote sometimes the neighbor coyote come over to see why the local ones aren't howling.
They will probably hunt the empty land.
They smell where local ones got caught and get caught themselves,

I have caught canines the first night and have caught canines 6 weeks after the trap was set. Right now it is hard to get them to even work the sets, its to nice. Cold weather seems to bring more catches in this country.

64 days is the longest I have had between catches. After a set is made

I will add if there's coyotes there I expect to catch them in a week or so. If a set has been there for a couple weeks and I haven't caught anything in that area I have to start figuring out if there is anything there to catch and if there is I'm going to have to change something up because what I'm doing isn't working.

What type of canine? I've never trapped foxes, but I assume they have a smaller range and will come by more frequently than coyotes. Coyotes have a smaller range and will come by more frequently than wolves. I've caught both wolves and coyotes on the first check, but our population isn't as dense as most areas back east so if I'm setting on fresh sign I don't expect to have anything the first few days. For wolves it is usually a couple weeks to over a month before they come back through (I've found that some places, some packs, and some times of year, this can be much more frequent) and if they decide to cross a couple hundred yards from where they did last time, or are simply on a mission and not investigating anything, it is going to be that long again before they come back through. Coyotes is usually between one and two weeks here before they come back, but there are often others that will come through in between times. Longest I have ever left a coyote set and caught a coyote was all winter, I set a trap just down the road from the house in late fall. I was driving by it every day and could see it from the pickup. Ground froze hard so it would be a real pain to pull the earth anchor before it snowed. Snowed 3-4 feet over it and I just left it. Come March it melted off and I was going to pull it but hadn't got around to it. Zero maintenance. Went by one morning and glanced at it, same as always, came back about 11:00 AM and there was a big dog coyote bouncing.

I've caught wolves in traps that have been set for three months, but they were maintianed and relured at least once a month. I will sometimes squirt urine on a set more often, especially if I am going by within reach of it, I use urine on the majority of sets, but not all.

That being said, if a set is out of the way and I'm not seeing sign of the target animals using the area within a reasonable time (reasonable depending on what the target animal is and how long I expect it to take for them to come back) I will end up pulling it. Weather and other circumstances may cause me to pull sooner if it either becomes too maintenance intensive or it causes the target animals to change their travel routes.

Around here if I set out traps and leave them awhile, 2/3 of the catch will be in the first 5 days and at least half in the first three. If your fur trapping, got a lot of country to trap, a week is plenty long enough.

If your not catching, and you know coyotes have found your sets, try different stuff. one new thing at a time.

everything has pretty much been stated by the above trappers in regards to your question. This would be a good one to save for our new trappers and the young folks.

Pull the trap and within days there'll be tracks all over it has been my experience.

That’s a loaded question with a lot variables.

Typical fall/winter dispersal time period with a decent population and lots of pups, with country set up “right” (on the heavy side), and enough adjoining areas covered, you should have the lions share of “resident” canines cleaned up in 12-15 days.

In high populations you could have influx’s of new canines than in days, in low pops it could be weeks or months. Most volume fur trappers would be moving some if not all of their equipment.

Population density is going to be a huge component of how long to stay (and how you set it up). I’ve trapped places where a great location will have multiple coyotes visiting every night, and I’ve trapped places where great locations will have a couple coyotes a week visiting.