Depends on time of year.
Summer time I don’t set as many traps, but I may set 6-12+ sets to catch just two or three coyotes. Once they’re caught, you may as well pull.
Maintenance season (November through May) targeting dispersing and moving coyotes primarily, in my country, is still low. But I’m setting places I will (try to) have working equipment at for 5-6 straight months. Some that will catch 6, 8, 10 coyotes, others that will catch just one or two, or none. But you have to cover the bases, create those voids and they will come.
Last year for reference I was dead in the water for Jan and Feb due to snow load. But last week in Feb I was able to start re-activating buried stuff and add new stuff.
By April 1st I was running at my peak with 380 traps in the ground on 44 different producers, as well as some trail snares where applicable. I killed 210 coyotes in March and April.
The biggest problem I have is I just don’t have the equipment (or time) to cover my country the way I’d like or the way I should. I’m perpetually setting too light that time year. Places I’d like to set up with 20 traps im only using 10-12 as I’m always rationing thinking ahead to the other ten places I still need to get to. And I definitely think a guys is better off setting on the heavier side than lighter when it comes to coyotes. I usually have to dye a bunch of traps
by May to make it through summer again.
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