sorry to hear you lost the swarm judelt...
i also don't use smoke, any bait or sugar water, but the sugar water would work to keep flight down. i usually use a single deep with some older drawn comb.
another trick if under a time constraint is the use of a little fishers bee quick. a couple summers ago, i took a rather large swarm from a neighboring property who grows grapes, and has an outdoor restaurant. the grape vines the bees swarmed to were about 30 yards from his outdoor restaurant, and customers close by. he wanted the bees gone or he was going to spray them after he closed up for the night (not in front of his customers). i tried to explain to his head lackie that i would get them but wanted to leave the box in place until dark at the base of the vines, or come back in the morning. he wanted them gone. i cut the branches from the vine the swarm was on and gently laid them in the deep. grape vines sticking up everywhere, and bees hanging out and wouldn't fit, couldn't put the lid on, and some bees took flight. i didn't want to shake them in right away, because of the bees that will take to the air and return to the grape vines. i also saw incoming scouts. the scouts were flying around where the swarm had been, i used the fishers bee quick and misted it on all of the surrounding vines. initially, if any landed outside of that, i shook the vine, and misted the bee quick.
i lifted the vines from the box and whatever bees were left on the vines, and shook them all in the box. by then, many of the bees had left the vines and were checking out the deep and the entrance, and were fanning, and were fanning from the vines that were sticking out of the box......
the bees that took to the air and attempted to return to the vines i had misted with the bee quick, soon wound up marching right back in the box. i asked the owner to give me a couple more hours, sure enough, i went back just before dusk, and they were happily settled in.
i never got a thank you from him.
