How about a story that revolves around Bearcat2 tip!
I learned to snare(2.5” deer stop) in MI in the late 90’s and I knew of many trappers that would hang dozens of snares per 40 acre section of woods. See a track-hang a snare, see a track-hang a snare, or hang a snare by shear guess! They would hang a snare anywhere they “thought” a coyote might pass. I opted for what I considered a more efficient method by doing exactly what Bearcat2 stated “if you see tracks there twice, they will be back eventually” and I killed a lot of coyotes with a handful of snares and didn’t take a backseat in my catch numbers to the folks who used a bucket full of snares!

Well in 2005 the State took away our snares with the 2.5” deer stop with new Regs calling for a 4.25” dog stop & no entanglement. I refused to use this post-2005 cable restraint because of the proven loss of a % of coyotes, so I took my principles of snaring and applied it to using foothold traps. It quickly became a great success for me in Central MI that rivaled the catch rate with the pre-2005 snares. Another huge bonus was that with snares and cable restraints a trapper could/can NOT use them on Public land but I could use my footholds. Snaring with footholds can be a wonderful thing!
End of Story!

So you are scouting in the first snow of the year?

I have seen frozen streams become travel routes for canine after they freeze up. So their travel patterns do change with the season just like any other animal.