I would think you could put your stakes in but not have a trap attached. Then all that is needed is to connect the trap to a j hook or whatever system that you would need to hook up a trap when the season does open.

I believe the law is stating that you cannot have an attached staked trap in the ground and "be unset" before the start time and date.

That's the way I read it too Bob.

To me, to stake out traps means no setting stakes. Even if you’re not setting the traps. Unfair advantage for some reason. I don’t know!!

Who is the President of Pennsylvania?! Let’s ask him!!!

I've been using wolf fangs for my yote sets for years with no real complaints. Depending on the property I'm at I'm setting in either sandy, loam, clay, or rock. I used the standard length for everything but the sandy soil. In sand I believe I'm running 24". I've done test pulls in the real sandy stuff with the shorter ones and didn't like the results so I went longer and solved the problem. Driving them in is no issue other than really rocky stuff but when you are trapping in an area that the rock to soil ratio is so high you don't even have enough dirt to cover your set up when you're done, I'm betting you'd also have difficulty driving those stakes. As far as the folks that say they don't like dealing with the cable loop sticking up, I get that. But I solve this issue by just dishing out the trap bed a little and then I overdrive the anchor so the swivel is about an inch below the soil. Then when I give it a yank to set it everything comes out flush. Now sometimes if I get a real feisty yote it will bring that loop up maybe another inch so I just punch a little hole next to the anchor with my driver and bend the loop over into that. But navigating a remake is a good problem to have I'd say. I made my own puller for end of season, it's a beast that yanks them out like a hot knife through butter. If I'm in the really rocky stuff however it is a crapshoot whether I'm getting that anchor back. Not cause the puller won't pull it, it just feels like I'm probably at the point of compromising the cable ferrule or breaking the cable anyway. But I reuse the ones I do get back year after year and had no problems with wear.

I use mostly soft ground Berkshires for dryland coon and some of the same for water traps that have a suitable bottom. Super Stakes for coyote traps, with the ground I have here I have never bothered to "pre set" them.
As a land surveyor for over 45 years I estimate that I have driven over 20,000 lineal feet or near 4 miles of rebar ranging from 3/4" to 1 1/4" in diameter in all kinds
of soil, rock and frost. If I never set another rebar, that would be OK with me.

Zim

I used to double stake with rebar but find it so much easier to pre drill a hole and drive a chained super stake. The ground is really hard packed and 12 inches down and no coyote budge it.
For removal two pumps with T-post puller and it's out of the ground and I'm on my way.

Wolf fangs work ok but half are ruined when pulled even if I pre drill beside the chain or cable to remove them.

I make my own angled pipe anchor, they out perform any other anchors I've used, rerod is a poor choice, wolf fangs get destroyed if you hit a rock.
I don't have much trouble pulling them in our Iowa soil, I use a pick ax to pry them out, or I use the blade on the ax to dig them free