BTW.....no catches for last night other than another mouse. I'm gonna wait a couple more nights before pulling the traps up but I bet I've about got most of the coons that I'm gonna catch along this stretch. This is a little bit of an example of what I mean by diminishing returns. I've trapped this creek branch for two weeks with 5 traps the majority of the time and have probably cleaned out this bottom pretty well. There was really no reason to run 10 if 5 does the job. It would be better to run more linear ft of trap line with the extra 5 IMO. "Time" would have to be a factor in the equation too I'm guessing. I actually still think I'm overkilling it with the above drawing. Two traps every 100 yards may be fine. That would cut it down to 8 on each line.