Here you go Trad. Right, wrong, or somewhere in between….This is how I tend to make my sets.

This first picture shows you WHY I chose to make the sets here. IMO, location is a lot more important than the actual type of set you make. This is a "funnel" with a short lane between two alfalfa fields. There is a draw/point that comes out of a big thicket and the woods. With a W or NW wind, the scent should blow up into the woods and thicket. Coyotes travel that lane, and there is always coyote turds there. The two red lines are tap locations.


Here is the "big hole" set. made to imitate a groundhog hole. Dug it 18" deep with a tile spade. Makes it so they have to really work to get at the bait, and get CLOSE to see what is in the bottom. Since it is made on a fairly steep slope, you can see there is only one approach the coyote can make to see down in the hole. Red X is where the trap is at. No urine or lure on this one. Just some tainted deer meat. If I don't get any action in a week, I'll add a little lure to it.


Typical scent post right on the point with weeds. I put the rock there as a visual. Its in a spot where they would typically mark anyway. Urine, and some gland lure under the rock. Red X is the trap.


Hay set just off of some round bales in the edge of a lane. Put the pile out there about two weeks ago, and put some bird seed under it to attract the field mice. It had been hit once before it snowed. I took a rake and spread it around to make it look like something has been in it. I took a mouse nest, and mouse and stuck under the hay at the edge of it. If you've every smelled a mouse nest, you'll know why I didn't add any lure or other scent! I have caught way more red fox in this set. But it does work on the coyotes. Red X is trap. Again, if no action in a week, I'll add some lure of some sort. I always try to start out subtle with the lures and bait.



It seems by this time of year, the coyotes are a little more educated, and have seen a standard dirt hole set, so I make something a little different along with the standard dirt hole and flat sets.