For me at least, bait is not always easy to come by, especially if you put out fresh bait every day or every other day. What I do is cut up pieces of scrap meat into small chunks, probably not over 2 inch chunks, and put only a few at the site. I generally put out maybe 5 to 6 chunks, maybe a few more sometimes, but that's all. The coyotes get used to coming to the bait and know a meal is usually there. They don't come every day, sometimes once a week or so, and other times they may come two or three nights in a row.
I generally check trail cameras and rebait every day since I live about one mile by road from my home to the farm. Generally something takes the bait whether it's crows, hawks, possums, skunks or coyotes. I try to always have bait at the site so that when a coyote does come, he has a meal. I generally rebait in late evening, trying to keep birds from getting it. Lately I've had problems with crows. In the past when I put out large portions of meat, seems that buzzards and hawks always found it and devoured it quickly. Even crows can eat up the bait in short order. So, I just use small chunks and keep it simple. That's just the way I do it now anyway.
When I first started bait a couple of years ago, I did put bait in a wooden make-shift pan. Now I just put it on the ground.
