Usually if they pick up just one piece you will catch them. My favorite trick is to throw a handful in the dirt hole and sprinkle a few kernels on the trail in front of the hole. Both foxes and coyotes love dog food, and when they’re anywhere near people, they often steal it out of food bowls. 1 goes to (especially when near civilization) cheap dog food. I’ve caught canines on duck carcasses, raccoon lure, soured fat from meat trimmings, animal bones, and fermented herring. Ask 10 old trappers what the best bait is, and you’ll get 20 different answers. There are a lot of quality baits and lures out there, and many of them work great. After concealing the trap, I load the hole up with bait and sometimes a dab of lure. Here in interior Alaska, we use snow to conceal the trap, but that doesn’t work everywhere, so research what is commonly used in your area.
After digging the hole and anchoring the trap, I set it 8” or so back from the hole, and set just to the right or left of center to catch a front foot.
The dirt hole mimics the habit of canines digging for and stashing food for later, and other fox or coyotes will often check them out. I dig a 2 inch (or so) diameter hole underneath a bush or clump of grass that acts as backing and gives the animal only one good way to approach the set. I set them on the edge of my snowmachine or snowshoe trail so that the trap will be set on the very edge of the trail (often a fox or coyote will not want to step off of the trail to investigate a set, but will step on the very edge). My favorite fox set is the classic dirt hole. The best areas to make these sets are the travel and hunting routes of foxes and coyotes.
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