I don’t know about this too-little, too-much bait business. I seem to find new properties that do not allow for exposed sign so I drill a deep, 3” hole and dump in a cup of a mixture of old lures and bait down the hole. If I’ve got coyotes on that property and I’ve figured correctly where they should be traveling(on location) they will have that hole dug out and down 18” within a week! That’s a cup of scent, not a teaspoon and they dig to China to get at it. I have yet to see in snow where coyotes showed an inclination not to approach a set because of too much scent. A heaping tablespoon doesn’t seem to deter my coyotes at all and snow doesn’t lie. LOL
What I will see when I use a hefty tablespoon of strong, rank bait in a mouse hole and covered with maybe 3”-4” of snow, I can get shoulder rubbing/rolling even though the bait is down 5”-6” in the hole. I figure due to the snow muffling and maybe mushroomimg the scent so not allowing the coyote to actually pinpoint the scent location, they dive in with the shoulder. It’s very interesting to observe this because I’ll get a sprung trap with hair but every coyote that has done this will just walk about 10’ from the set and roll around in the snow before going on about it’s business. LOL
Edited by Seldom (07/11/18 01:36 AM)