Nice tip There are always new or better ways to help you be more successful One of the things I enjoy about trapping is there is always room to improved your skills

I do not like to anchor my snare next to the trail when snaring coyotes. I snare very open country and run 12-14 foot of cable, between my snare and an extension. I stake with rebar as far from the trail as I can get. I hang my loop and then stake, so I am as far as I can get away. I use a piece of number nine wire for a support. I lay it on the ground and about two and a half or three inches from the end I place a half in rod with a V or U slot cut in the end over the wire. I drive the wire in the froze ground with my three pound hammer about three inches. The wire folds up along each side of the rod and once it is in I pull the rod. I put the snare on the wire support with a J clip. It will crimp on tight enough you can twist the cable to what ever angle you want it. When you pull the snare, often you can not get the support wire out of the froze ground. I like to stake away from the trail so I can rehang a new snare with out moving the support wire. I caught three coyotes in two weeks in a eight foot wide grass strip between two stubble fields. The third one got a front leg through and wiped out the trail. They were crossing from one stubble field to another in the same spot, so I set it.