Its so hard to describe sometimes, but the way my mentor taught me was to pull over to the side of the road and ask me what I see. Of coarse it starts corn field, hay,.... but after so many repetitive stops, I learned to see the natural swales, subtle rises, brush line with a little Point" sticking out. Well, that was starting when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Years later, I developed an odd skill of looking at a lake map and seeing the topo lines as a field. Steep banks, flat, hills and so on. Its viewing the terrain as a predator. If you were stalking up on something, or using thermals to let you smell, where would you go? Like mentioned above, scouting cant be beat. But isolating where you scout will save you a tone of time. When you view pictures of someone's success, don't just look at the coyote of fox. You need to see the contour of the land, where the set was placed, and you'll understand how that critter approached the set.
One other thing he always asked me was why a coyote or wolf would never run a particular fence line or which side. I gradually learned to see which came from occupied houses/barns and which just seperated pastures and properties.
I don't try very much to pull them any distance. But when I do, its substantial visual aids. If I make a walk-through set between rocks, the rocks are volley ball sized and in the open - not hidden by brush. Same for logs, hay bails, pee sticks, and my new favorite little kiddy swimming pools/water tanks. Identify high percentage areas that would have mice nests that you can see from a ways away. I'm sure after a rain or snow, you'll see tracks that passed by. Possibly stopped and smelled to see if dinner is home. It took me a while to figure out why the yotes like my water tanks so much. Every time I refill, I dump them out and 1/2 doz or so of mice come running out from beneath. All in the details
