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Would urban coyote step on plywood that has foothold attached by magnets and covered with hay.
No digging or bedding with dirt.
I've seen their tracks on lumber by barn before, and are bold.
Again these are not out in the wild coyotes, they and parents have been around subdivisions, buildings, parking lots, gravel and concrete and blacktop driveways, domestic pets.
Just wondering what trappers thought before attempting, they are really thick here in Ohio
 
I’m sure there are plenty of other techniques, and there are plenty of trappers here that can elaborate further, but when I trapped the set I made was done so as to have the coyote step where I wanted / needed. Just setting a trap on a piece of plywood and covering it with hay sounds a bit arbitrary.
 
I would think getting a coyote to step on a raised pile of straw would be very difficult. You usually use raised items(stick, stone, pile of dirt, etc) to guide a coyote foot to whatever appears to be solid footing when using foot hold trap. As mentioned in another post trapping coyotes takes some skill. A trappers Education class would be a good starting point to learn.

Like any coyote control it takes skill. Man has been trying to eliminate coyotes since they first encountered them and in the past rules were far more liberal than today and I'm pretty sure we've never made much of a dent in the population, and they have spread to places they have never been before.

One of the first/few coyotes trapped in the Red River Valley of the North(near Rollag) around 50 yrs ago, plus my ex-wife's first fox on her own line.
Fox were the predominate predator in the area. I lived on a remote farm and never heard a coyote in the 12 yrs I lived there.
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Man was able to eliminate wolves through most of their range in the US where with even more pressure coyotes have flourished.
 
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