If there is anything I’ve learnt over the years is. The biggest thing that I needed to change is the amount of time I spent in a dead bait site. If it’s dead move on to another and maybe go back after a couple weeks.
Urine is a waste of time! IMO. If anything use a long distance call lure like skunk fire.
walk on their trails is no big deal, if you need to set a snare use their trails and don’t make too much of a disturbance, take one step off the trail and set snare then back on trail. The biggest thing is if your on their trails make it as if your just there going for a walk, too many other human foot prints in the snow around the bush is a deterrent to the wiser more weary coyote.
If your a smoker stop smoking while checking traps.
As far as the boot smell. Use the same boots for baiting and checking traps, be careful with air fresheners in your truck.
I don’t even laundry my trapping clothes during trapping season.
I’ve learnt that the best bait is butcher scraps, even road kill is hard to get them to commit to in my area, whole beef, pork, bison forget about it. For me no whole animals work. Just pork guts and butchers scraps.
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