I have a quick question. I know everyone says set your trap about 9 inches from your dirt hole and offset it two inches. My question,,,,, is the 9 inches from hole to the edge of your trap or to the center of your trap. What would the results be if setting your trap to close to the dirt hole. Yes, I now every situation is different, but generalizations here......

9 back 6 over, center to center (roughly). Too close your missing yotes and catching smaller critters.

here's one solution i used with pretty good success to that problem this year, when you make your dirthole or post set place a small peice of brush or rock(whatever you can for blocking) and place it so the yote has to go between the blocking and your set, that's where you place your trap, i've heard called back blocking, like i said i had great success this year using this method but remember for yotes it doesn't take much to be a piece of blocking

I know some people like to give you a HARD FAST RULE on trap placement on canine sets....thing is : THERE IS NO HARD FAST RULE !

Every set can vary...

Look at the set, visualize you are the predator....(Given the mindset you are a coyotes size and height) take the steps with your finger tips, as you set up to the set....the last one you take before you stick your nose to the set, will be where the trap goes...

X 2 LT. Distance is the last thing I worry about at a canine set.To many factors for a hard set rule of thumb.Make the trap pan the best place to step.

X3

X4 nothing is set in stone as far as distance from a hole or scent post goes

A good experiment would be take a regular dog out where you have made some mock sets and pay very close attention to what they do with them. Watch how they pee on things also.

Well, I'm getting yotes to the sets. Im seeing tracks and sets are disturbed. I am picking some of them up, but, not nearly as many as i should be. It seems like i have a lot of uncovered traps and occasionally a flipped trap. To me it seems the yote comes up and uncovers just a bit of the trap or maybe even all of it. I know your going to say scent control. But I am using latex gloves and rubber boots, traps in scent free rubbermaid, so i don't think it a scent issue. My thought were maybe i was placing the trap to close to the hole. then Mr Yote is pawing hole and hitting my trap. anyways. i started placing them further back yesterday, so we will see what happens. I use mostly MB550's and they are dyed and waxed 3-4 pounds pan tension. When i bed them I'm using glycol dirt and wax dirt, nothing is frozen and they are bedded like concrete

Maybe your trap isnt bedded solid enough

I go 7" to 9" back center of the hole.I dont use alot of blocking just a few weed stems sticking up around the levers and one at the front jaw.Just angle the hole.I dont miss many.

I miss 90% lol

barred make sure the area right above your trap pan is the lowest point in the trap pattern also

what do you mean Kirk??

Make sure the lowest part of the trap pattern is on your pan.They will put their foot at the lowest part of your set 70% of the time.

I think he meant lowest

lowest part of set is my pan. what would stink??? I'm overboard about scent control

always wear gloves, fresh latex every set. wear rubber boots. use kneeling pad. dye and wax traps with trap wax. never touch traps with bare hands and into rubbermaid

is it coons digging ?

could be coons i guess, i was always gonna trail cam them, but i know some are yotes