Do you relure with the same lure?
I try to stay consistent with my smells so my notes make sense. The inclination for many trappers is to not use much lure because they remember the coyotes that wanted to commit suicide and dug through month old crusty snow to get to the goodies. That's not consistent stack em in the truck everyday trapping. That's just some that want to die young I guess. I trap for specific animals in ADC or for as many as I can catch on the fur line. And to catch critters in crap weather (which is trapping season about everywhere) you gotta give something to be interested in. Some, you might kill with a drop or two, but you won't stack 'em up as best you could... cause some you have to give them em something to lean into!
I remember the first year I ran the Academy in Texas, Zagger was the third instructor up that first morning. The dude is one mean, lean stack em up machine and we were taking equipment. I'm up first, I show my fork I use for bait and say I use a "glob." Second instructor up pulls out a bait fork and says "I use a more than June, I use this much.''
I still remember, Zagman pulls out a mongo fork and laughs and says, "People are going to think I sell lure for you June, but this is MY fork!" It was like a Crocodile Dundee fork!!! Expansion handle and everything. He dug into a jug of bait and pulled out a HUNK, I mean a hunk, and said, this is how much I use.
I admit, after seeing that mongo Zagman fork in 2016.... I got a bigger fork!
Selling lures has nothing to do with my advice to help trappers out. The Lord has blessed us enough for 10 lifetimes so if somebody thinks I'm trying to grease our wheels, to sell more lures, they don't know Donna and I very well. We've been the same hard working folks since I started in 1984 and the years have been more than kind. 35 years and counting. It's gone by fast.
We help a lot of trappers and I've always been open to sharing information as I attended FT College in Indiana in the 1980's with the likes of Kermit Stearns, Odon Corp, Major Boddicker, Pete Askins, Keith Gregerson, George Stewart, and so many humble pioneers of this craft. That was back in the day when nobody taught anyone anything, and I've never forgotten those war horses and how they ran their races. Excellent examples - all of them.
Bottom line: I don't trap with a dime size glob of lure and a fork full of bait at sets much of the year, with exceptions being when it's humid... I can pull then back because moisture helps the smells.