yoteler?

[NitroHunter]

About a year or so ago I posted that I didn't feel like we had a huntable population of yotes around here.....We'll things have changed since then.
Every night you can go out and here them and there is plenty sign on the old mining roads and crap everywhere with fur and bone fragments in it, I even saw two cross the road going to work this week.
I'd be willing to take a few pointers on how to locate and set up on them if you would share them. Keep in mind that electronic calling devices are off limits here in KY.
I'd love to lay the smack down on a few of them, but have no idea how to start just hunting them specifically.

[yoteler]

Tactics differ greatly, broadcasting the sounds of everything from howling or dueling coyotes to bleating fawns to rabbits screeching in distress. For locating a good howler is used much like a locater turkey call. A "greet" howl -- two or three short barks followed by a howl up to three seconds in duration -- tells coyotes in the area where you are, and invites them to come check you out. Once a coyote responds, I like to sit still for a few minutes, and then start hitting some type of distress call or challenge howling. The challenge howl has a lot more growling than yips mixed in with aggressive howling. The downside to this type of calling is that it may intimidate young coyotes, which will then shut up and shy away. Get your challenge to sound like a young male, and you're likely to attract the interest of a mature male dog. Give the impression that they'll be competing for a small animal in distress, and you could call in two, three, or even four coyotes at once! The distress call is just that: an imitation of an injured small animal. This should be your bread-and-butter call; how it sounds to an approaching coyote makes all the difference in your success. A rabbit caught in a fence or wounded from the talons of a hawk makes lots of high-pitched and ear-piercing noise. But the important thing to remember is, your lungs are much larger than a rabbit's. It doesn't make sense to give long, wailing appeals. More realistic are loud, short blasts. Instead of making a noise like "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa," try making it sound more like this: "Waaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa, waaaaaaa."
Nitro this next thing I posted before and I still do it.
Play the wind when taking a stand, do not let the wind take your scent into them, after you get in give it a cooling off period. Eg; sit down, put on your face mask and gloves, adjust your rifle and/or camera to a comfortable position which you'll be able to maintain for up to 30 minutes and, take time to familiarize yourself with the area before you. Do this all quietly! There may be a predator nearby. The time taken here allows things to settle down in case you made more noise than you should have and know walking into your stand site.. Begin the call, quietly. Sometimes I may use a squeaker, or a coaxer, or merely use my wounded rabbit call as softly as I can with a short "session" of calls just in case there is something nearby. Many times I'm surprised to have a coyote appear only seconds after I've done this. I'm always more surprised that some of these early comers have appeared after I've cussed myself for making what seemed like an over-abundant amount of noise getting in to the stand. Keep strongly in mind that you are imitating a relatively small animal in distress. I am just as guilty (in my early years of calling) of making very long bursts on the call at volume levels that would wake the dead. Your lungs are 10s of times larger than even a jackrabbit. While the volume can increase to a very, very loud level during the calling session, in order to really "reach out," the length of each calls voice -or wail- should be short to imitate the amount of air the distressed animal would be disbursing, realistically to make the same noises.
This is the sequence I use ......
Soft, opening call (as described above) using squeaker, coaxer, or softly using distress call, 30 seconds.
1 minute of silence
45 seconds to 1 minute of louder, more distressful wails,
period of silence (in order to look for customers)
The SCRAMBLE call - usually 1 minute in duration
period of silence long, 1-1.5 minute session of distressful wails and cries period of silence.
IF there hasn't been a coyote come in by now...SCRAMBLE again.
period of silence about 1 minute of monotone waaa's period of silence distress wails leading up in crescendo to a dying squeal
wait for about 5 minutes in silence for any long distance travelers to come in.

Please let me know if anything works out for you, as it does for me. But play the wind is the number 1 thing.

[NitroHunter]

Thanks yoteler,and I'll be sure to post pics.