When you snare trails into dead animals/ dead piles do you place one snare per trail or multiple on each trail in growing distances from the bait pile?

If you have enough trail so your snares are 30' apart, I will hang a couple in each trail. You catch one and his buddy mills around the caught coyote then continues on down the trail.

What Beav said. If you have a lot of critters you will get them coming and going. Helps if you stay back off your pile a ways also.

I believe they call these bait piles "Jackpots" in Canada, eh?

Put out your bait piles be generous because a group of coyotes can make quick work of a single deer once they start to hit on it. Even smaller cattle don’t last long sometimes before you get back to check on it. I find the thicker cedar draws with low hung limbs to be ideal for snaring locations.

Waiting for coyotes to hit the pile consistently then wait for some tracking snow and go to town on them, it’s trails they’ve already been using so they should use them again. As far as distance I set well away from the pile the closer you get to the pile the less productive it becomes get too close your problems multiply greatly.

If there’s a fence nearby check for cross under locations even if its a good distance away. Buck brush trails are perfect for blending in snares find where a few trails meet up and set them up. A pinch point is a pinch point if it’s buck brush, cedars or yucca plants on the travel routes.

I tend to hang at least two snares on trails “going someplace”.

Those random sleeper trails usually only get one.

Dead piles or watering holes. This year has been an unusual dry and warm winter so far. There's water down below and left of the trees. Had these 2 snared the other day. Have snares on 4 main trails heading to water.

When I snare bait piles I do it a little different. Once it’s established I stay off the two or three main trails. Let them use it for awhile and feel safe doing it. I’ll set snares on all the side trails coming off the main trails. Kinda like a road system. Set the single tracks (dirt roads)coming on the main trails , and where there’s a couple tracks (black top)coming on/ off the main trails. I let the main highway go for a week. After a week it seems like you get the older coyotes (on the side trails)then I hang the main trails with as many snares as I think it can handle. Usually start a 100 yards out or further then start setting my snares closer as your checking.I Don’t go much closer than 30 yards to the bait. I’ve tried different ways of setting snares for years and this way seems to work best for me. I’m usually baiting in the middle of a big stand of trees so it makes this method work better,also this is in snow. Im setting bait stations for a month or sometimes more so I like the main trails to get hammered down and they drag scent with their feet and haul of pieces all over. After 3 weeks they might go dead but they usually pick up a couple weeks later and you are all set up with snares just to pick up coyotes and replace where needed.

If you only have a week or so to trap it hammer every spot and get as many as you can. Once you’ve got a few coyotes they’ll make a few new trails

Jackpots are only at casinos EH!

Then you have dead piles, or I call them carcass dumps. I have 2 deer carcasses in my carcass dump, and they have been there for 2 weeks. And not one coyote has touched them. There are tracks in the area and I did catch one on the 1st but that's been it. I've seen this before never could figure it out.

I've seen this before here in the U.P.,one time I got frustrated so I took a skinned beaver,put it on a rope and drug it around thru the snow multiple times,always ending up at the bait pile.The coyotes walked over the drag mark never following it.Go figure

A draw station takes a lot of bait coyotes can clean up a single deer very quickly the same with smaller cattle if you wait too long to check on it to see if they hit on it. It could be down to almost nothing or gone if you get cheap on the baits. Like buck said as soon as they can they drag parts off closer to cover if your out in the open and to avoid fighting as soon as they can.

I start with a 3 deer minimum or a whole cow when I start a station I can add more if needed. Sometimes they hammer them right away other times it could take a week or more like said and if medication is involved it can be longer to get hit bad weather helps motivate them also.

I had the whole process typed out once but it jumped to another thread somehow but I deleted it. Not typing all that again