Thanks Mark. I'll try to post a couple more pics of him working the set.
On the bottom pic you can see him doing his magic. I pound the pipe in slightly angled toward the trap bed. It's a steeper angle than 45 degrees. Pan is about 9 inches back from pipe opening. I make a "hang loose" sign with my pinkie finger and thumb extended and middle 3 fingers bent and that's about 8-9" back.
I put tiny little spiky sticks at each lever and one at the free jaw, lay the black window screen cover over the pan and lightly cover with lawn clippings.
I wonder since the clippings are still green and still smell like lawn clippings it's a different smell so they dig at it. I do fan the clippings out about 6 inches from the bed.
Traps have been boiled in dye and waxed in an old turkey fryer setup. 2 separate pots.
In bottom pic you can see a tuft of grass in front of his nose. Pipe is barely sticking out of that tuft about 2 inches. He is working the set from the side in that bottom photo. Trap is downwind of the pipe for a SE winds, which it was that day but typically we have WNW wind.
Thanks for your input guys.