dirt hole sets in deep snow

[treeroot]

I'm trying something different this year.

We have a ton of snow up here so coyotes are sticking to snowmobile tracks.



I drive downthe snowmobile trail until I find a spot that doesn't get a lot of drifting snow. Than I climb into my toboggan and bed the trap under some snow near the edge of the sled track.

Then I dig out a hole infront of the trap in the deep snow along the nice steep edge of the snowmobile track. I throw a peice of beaver down in the hole and don't cover the hole.

Hopefully I am explaining myself well. It's basically a dirt hole set, but the dirt hole is in the snow the is right beside the sled track.

I am having OK luck doing this, but I notice some coyotes trot right past the bait. They aren't getting cautious because their gate doesn't change. Foot tracks show they don't slow down, speed up and change direction when they walk past my trap.

Ideas to make them stop and find the bait? I am using beaver meat.

I tried putting a bit of skunk oil on a blade of grass poking out right beside or behind the hoel with the bait. Didn't help.

I was thinking of doing this type of set close to the bush edge (on a farm field) and wiring a wing to a over hanging tree branch under the trap/bait hole.

anyone try this?


A couple years ago I tried a couple of hay sets. Basically you take a arm full of hay, drop it in the sled track and put some fox urine on the hay and set 2 leg holes on either end of the pile of hay. A fellow told me this works wonders for coyotes in farm areas. I found the coyotes to be very cautions approaching the hay and go around. I am going to try this again, but instead of skunk oil, I might put some beaver meat under the hay.