What's everyone's favorite set in the snow

[thrstyunderwater]

I know I know, snares are a good go to. I'm trying to catch yotes in a very very open area with little to know luck. It gets really hammered most of the year by cattle, yotes move through this approximate 1/2 miles by 1/2 mile pasture almost every night, but they're always taking a slightly different path.

I've got a couple dozen #3 bridger normal jaws I wanna give a go in the snow. I'm thinking I want to try variations of the hay set and maybe use peat moss in the same manner.

Recommendations?

Also I have snares on a dead cow in the general area, they haven't given two hoots about it. They seem to be doing just fine on live deer and rabbits.

[Possum]

I still think a dirthole is hard to beat snow or bare ground. I usually try to find a pile of leaves or crop residue that may have insulated the soil enough that making the hole is still an option. In my younger days when I had more drive, I would premake sets during the thaw, no bait then install the sets once everything froze. Had a bitch of a winter several years ago and I made "snow-hole" sets where I used the snow in drifts like it was dirt. Hole in snow, traps bedded in snow wrapped in alligator baggies. Caught one in one of those sets on Christmas morning, 16 below. No heat in fur shed. Would have frozen solid so I skinned it out. Kids were pissed cause they couldn't open presents. Wife was pissed because I wasn't there. My hands were so cold I puked when they started warming up. With age comes wisdom. I'm not so driven any more.

[trappnman]

one needs to be careful with those baggies in snow. I was given a tip to just slide the trap into a baggie- that it would tear when fired- and found it did not, it just brought up all the snow, preventing the trap from closing.

I've done some delibrate snow trapping, and found tat dirtholes were as good as anything- but the key is that patterns and routes change, esp this time of year prebreeding season. So location becomes even more important in snow, you need to be on top of them. I also think that you really, really need to use the bait and lure- cold and snow reduces odors, and you need something thats going to get out there and do its job.

[thrstyunderwater]

Anyone like hay sets? Ever use peat moss like hay?

[trappnman]

you mean pile up peat, and set the trap above ground in the peat with bits of bait and lure?

sure, you could- I've made frozen ground sets with 5 gals of dry dirt, putting it in a lopsided pile and bedding the trap above ground on the sloping side of the pile, putting a grass wad into the dirt pile, and luring that. and did catch a coyote or two in doing so.

I'm not a fan of hay sets but some guys love them on fox, not sure how an extended line with them would work for coyotes- for lots of reasons, including direction control.

why not just clear areas of snow, and make your sets- a large bare aera in snow, is as good a visual as you can get, and you need a good visual, since you state they travel randomly-

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