USING LEGHOLDS IN WINTER - COYOTES

called footholds not legholds.  Don't catch them by the damn leg!!  Want them by the paw.  Sorry pet peave of mine
Get some videos and look at trapperman.com for all the tips you need.

Aint none of them better the the DOE HOLD!! LMAO

You should have been preparing during the summer,  you need to prepair your wax dirt, you'll need this during the winter as your traps will freeze up.         you can make this very easy by laying out a 4x8 sheet of plywood spread dirt acoss not to thick, let it dry out completely, then mix in sent free wax, and let this lay out for 2 days, then just bucket it up, cover and hold till winter,          then you just substatute the dirt where the trap is going with your dirt. to help prevent trap from freezing up and too much snow, then its snaring time.

In the absence of prepared dirt such as HunterJohnson suggests, you can also go to your local Menards or ????? and buy a bag or two of topsoil now and do as he recommends by spreading it out on a sheet of plywood or something in your home.  Don't use sand or potting soil, neither will work that well.  Sand has a way of getting under the pan and supporting it and potting soil is, well....potting soil.

The above may work best if you aren't married.

p.s.  I am guessing Archer has set more than just a few traps in the winter.

Hunter,

Just curious as to what the wax is supposed to be for?  I've never used it.

 Water repellent.

 In the absence of some sort of weather proofed dirt, about your only other option is a hay set or duff set.

I however dont know why anyone would want to screw around with trapping coyotes in frozen ground and/or snow when we can use a far better tool here in ND once the inclement conditions hit.

yup, for instance   lets say you make a set, later that night you get afew flurries,  dont catch nothing that night, but the next day it warms up and melts the snow in the afternoon but freezes up towards dark,  if you just used dry dirt it would be wet at this point and would freeze, being waxed wont freeze up,   (for the most part)

 Dull - I would suggest peat moss instead of topsoil. Its pretty dry when you first buy it.
Also, as archer said, trapperman.com is a better resource for trapping stuff than fishingbuddy.  I have very little experience with winter foothold trapping for yotes, so I can't tell you what works best but there are a few options.

Yep, set a few traps in the winter.  Usually run snares when can anymore, hate chopping away at the frozen ground with my axe.  But like hunter said, waxed dirt works great and best to prepare lots before season starts.  Also like above peat moss is another great thing during winter time. It can get difficult to bed traps since ground froze and basically have to chop the bed out.  Any little stick, stone or clump helps to get trap level and not moving.  During winter, any lure with alot of skunk will be your best choice.

Thanks for the info.  I did prepare my traps this summer and have collected dry dirt this summer in buckets and was planning to use the commercial antifreeze.  Had heard before that peat moss works best.  I also heard about using a zip lock sandwich bag but  wanted to know what others had for ideas.  Sounds like the peat moss works best.  I''ve heard of using a hayset too  and was wondering how solid the trap needs to be set.  this was more my question with regard to winter trapping.  Can you put it in a zip lock bag and just cover it with hay, or peat or does it need to be really beded solidly like you do in the summer?   Oh, by the way I know that snaring is much easier. 

 The trap should always be  bedded solidly. When  a coyote steps near or on the edge of your trap, you don't want the trap underneath his foot to move (wobble).  Also, like others mentioned, you'll want to dig a trap bed out of the ground. If you just set the trap on the ground and then cover it, your trap will be underneath a mound, which coyotes are less likely to step on. If you dig out a trap bed, and place the trap in that bed, you can then cover the trap with peat moss or dirt (or whatever you choose) and the set is level. If fact, many trappers even like a slight depression directly over the trap pan. 

Good luck.