There have been some good post here on "Strictly Trapping Only on snaring, so I thought I would pose the question of how many snaremen set up "pass throughs" or "jump throughs", where a coyote jumps through or over a low place in a fence.
I recently have caught several coyotes that way where they were jumping over low places...had I not tracked them in the snow, I would not have even know where they were coming through...but as luck would have it, the tracks told the story and I was able to take both coyotes with a pefect neck catch in 1x19-1/16th using a Slim lock. It took a little "fencing",(excuse the pun) with some fallen limbs but this peticular fence went into a wooded area, and it appeared natural..or so I tried to make it. After a little over a week, both snares connected. I think maybe the coyotes were a little spooked by the placed limbs...but maybe not as limbs do fall all the time during winter storms and high wind. I did my best to make it appear natural without being over crowded. Sometimes with snare blocking, LESS is MoRE! Perhaps they just were somewhere else. Regardless, it payed off and with a short tie off, the coyotes were both D.O.A.
I would be good to hear from others who have used this technique.

Do you ever try to catch them by the feet or accidentaly catch them by a foot?

I try to neck snare them but yes, I have caught them by one or two feet, as a coyote jumps forward with it's feet out in front.

Do you find that coyotes tend to frequent any certain fence crossings? Have you ever successfully created a fence crossing high or low? Thanks for the info on this and why they avoid snares.

Yes, like all furbearers, coyotes tend to pass through, over and under fences at several "favorite" spots. These spots can be made of course, although I don't reccomend altering fences with livestock in them.
A simple method of cutting a small hole in the bottom strand of woven wire or digging out a 8" go-under and hoeing out a trail on each side will often do the trick. Try to make these in low places where the water natuarlly drains. Most fields have these and animal naturally follow and use these anyway!

Again, don't mess cutting livestock fences but a go-under will work well here and miss the livestock.*

(* Be careful around spring lambs)

Thank you. I'm sure I'll come up with more later. We have about 99.9% barbwire fences out here so I guess I'll look for the brushy spots and tracks. The snow is almost all gone here and the mud freezes pretty solid in the evening so tracks are getting few and far between.

Thanks again.

Barbwire can be awlful mean on a furbearer!
Do what I do in that situation...set-up your snare on a slidewire w/ a 1/2" rebar tangle stake at the end!

have you ever used a drag with a snare?

I have snared for more than 35 years I will set crawl unders,overs between or anything else. There is not a situation that I can't set anymore. When most are setting home cause the ground is frozen I'm taking super prime fur, cable up!

Thanks LT and Glen everything helps.The more ideas I get this year will certainly help next year.

Glen! You got that right!

Snares on drags are illegal here in Ohio yes, can be done using dead timber! I've done it elsewhere.

Not to use a drag because the ground is froze. Just to get them away from the barbedwire.

braswell that polar bear seems like he's on a drag. LOL

he's draging the iceberg my snare was tied to. LOL

ahhh, a man after me' own heart! Ha!

That's why I get on every thread you do on snaring LT.Want to learn from a real snareman.

Man, I'm still learnin' after 30 years of hangin' hoops!

LT I used to snare spots like that, but in the country Im in I catch way to many deer and antelope crawling under the fences too, so it has to be pretty choked down before I will ever use that on a fence, its a good place, but some parts of the country its just not a good idea and you get to many nontargets.

Just the way it is here and how I feel.

"Barbwire can be awlful mean on a furbearer!
Do what I do in that situation...set-up your snare on a slidewire w/ a 1/2" rebar tangle stake at the end"

kina like a dry drowner??
I have used them in the past just to hide a critter that I caught close to the road.

Dry drowner....
Never heard it put that way but yeah, that's it!