I’m just doing a test to see if I can post a photo on the forum.

This my typical T-Bone Set. Pretty straight forward. Sometimes I like to make it a walk through as pictured. Note: I also put a drop of gland lure on the T-bone side of the cow chip. Other times, I like the area wide open with no backing at all. Just a bone sitting in the wide open. I use the prevailing wind for trap placement.

Trap is blended in between the bone and the cow chip. I smear a little bait on the bone and a few drops of urine and/or gland lure on each side of the bone on the grass. 3-6 inches each side. My hope is to get the coyote to shuffle his feet over the trap. Not just drive by. If the coyote turns and smells the gland lure on the cow chip, he is all but caught.

This photo was taken in the late fall. I pick up a lot of pups with this set. But adults get cuffed by it too. By deep winter, when the pups are more experienced, I start hiding the T-bone more and more inside clumps of grass.

I like to use this set near an old carcass or bone pile. But I carry a bucket of t-bones and drop this set in anywhere I feel like it. There are bones scattered everywhere in my neck of the woods.

If I come across a paranoid coyote (as I often do in sheep country) I’ll place the bone 10-20 feet upwind of a trail in the open. I’ll peg the trap at the bone with an earth anchor. Then I put a mafia blind set in the trail on drags. Just a variation in the hopes of catching the shy one on the trail where she feels safe.

I guess it worked. I got the photo to load. Maybe I’m not as dumb as I look.. or act… or etc.

Looks like a great set Centex and your photo uploaded just fine!

Very nice blending and I use natural guides like that for my coyote sets as well...

This is my style of fence snare. I got the idea from Clint Locklear. It is basically a trail snare set in a fence opening.

This is a remake. I already snared a coyote at this spot. He tore it all up. So I added the cedar post and rocks. I block it up and reset it. I have a few spots every year that catch 5-10 coyotes. The snare stays there 24/7/365. Yes, I do a lot of fencing work, especially if I snare a pig in a spot. But I just reset and forget it. I may drive by it for months before another catch, or I may have another coyote in a week. But it is always working for me.

Some coyotes will make a dig under next to the disturbed remake. I put a trap in the new dig under because I look at that coyote as paranoid. So I set it up special.

I use 5/64 1x19 cable. Loaded. I use 7/64 windshield wiper fluid hose for my whammy. I use black tie wire for the pigtail off the fence. Death blow camlock. I’m always experimenting with locks. I go back and forth among locks. No kill spring. No break away. Texas doesn’t make us use them and it’s cheaper not to use them. I make many hundreds a year. So and expense or added time to construct them adds up. I reuse what I can after a catch. I keep it simple.

I like a 10 inch loop. My coyotes can and will go under any spot big enough to fit its head. Just like foot trapping, I catch lots of non targets. But my ranchers want them gone too, so it all works out. It just means more snares to make.



Fence snare



Close up of whammy

Can't beat the ole T-bone set! I set much closer to the bone.

Ditto on the can’t beat the t-bone set.
Jim

You pound them out in the open here, they stick out like a sore thumb and will most likely be avoided. Sure, you'll snag a few here and there but not the most productive. I believe Ed S. out of Kansas talked about them in one of his videos. He said, some areas they worked great, but others not so much.

Personally, I don't understand the whole eye appeal thing to attract coyotes. If on location, no eye appeal needed. There was a study on coyotes at a research center with bait sticks placed in certain areas. Not one of them was located by sight, it was found with the use of their nose.

Sure, T-bone's make great lure and bait holders. I even use them once in a while in soil that is loose and collapses easily. But the bone is totally concealed adding to the curiosity factor.

You don't always get them! I usually pair them with a dirt hole or rock set. Very natural and as mentioned a great scent holder. I re-use as long as I can and that only adds to the appeal of them. They go in fast, which is another reason I really like them.

In a featureless flat-picked beam field, that little something different from the bone sticking up, it shines. I run two sets in bean field edges. One is a pile of bean chaffe kicked into a small pile and either bait hidden in the pile for a bait set it or I give it a shot pee as a post set. Other set will almost always be a tbone with a little bait in the hole/cavity of the bone end.
In frozen January ground I can pound in a pilot hole with a driver and pound the bone into that hole.
The chaffe pile was my answer to dirtholes when ground was too hard to dig those and I could use as either bait or a post set.
Both of those sets have eye appeal in bean fields and are high producers for me.
I like bean fields in late season because I get very little issues with dog or bird hunters on that flat picked ground. Keep the sets back over a hill or behind something like fencerow to hide catches. Caught coyotes also will lay pretty flat in a bean field and really blend in.
Jim

Agree, love those bean fields. I use a lot of two flat rock sets in those situations. One for the bait/lure and one for blocking. Can't beat a flat rock for blocking. On my bone sets, I usually use a turd for blocking.

Like using corn cobs too. Think I caught 5 coyotes off this rock set. Had a bone set 10 ft away and was never touched. Gotta mix it up!

As both Jab and Bison brought out, it's the location not really the eye appeal. If you are using the edges of crop fields where you know coyotes are traveling you will take coyotes, whether it be something that stands out or not. Such as the corn cob. There's a lot of them that are laying around, but they work good as a lure/bait holder too. It's the smell that attracts them to your set. I've used corn cobs and various crop duff to apply lure/bait too, nothing that really has eye appeal and have taken a lot of coyotes because I was on location.

I'm not trying dispute the use of things that people use for eye appeal, I think it's great, and if you feel it really helps in your application, then by all means use it.

I always say u catch coyotes by their nose not their eyes. Not saying there isn't a time and place for a bit of visual but like SPC I get to much avoidance to Tee bones here. If your a good student ur coyotes will teach you what is most effective and wants not.