Hunting & Fishing Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

[CoCaDoRi]

Well apparently they don't react like the western variety...

all my tried and true tactics haven't spawned much success here in NC.

I guess I need to start thinking electronic caller. So who makes the best? And who has had what success with which brand in the NC, TN areas.

All replies are much appreciated.

 

[Da-Law-Dawg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

Johnny Stewart preymaster or Foxpro with high-pitched cottontail works wonders here in southern Ky.

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

in western PA, foxpro with pup in distress, lightnin' jack, jackrabbit distress, and groundhog distress will pull the dogs in. I have yet to connect, have been busted EVERY time so far. Buddy has a foxpro and that thing is the cat's meow. I am building a home brew if i can ever find the time. i'm limited by length of my headphone cord. Using an all weather speaker, a small rad shack amplifier, and an old MP3 player.

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyYqD2mX9xw

Downwind productions focus's on eastern/northeastern yote hunting. nice vid production...I have enjoyed all their vids.

 

[CoCaDoRi]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

I appreciate the feedback...

I figured Fox Pro would be the "goto" so I order one of these...

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=apc&product_name=Scorpion+X1B

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

that's the unit my buddy jeff has. we only had it fail once...it took a large radio interference hit from a base station short wave and lost it's link between the handset and the base. Foxpro was very quick to remedy the situation and talked jeff thru it over the phone. Don't set up near a shortwave or strong CB antenna. (thier advice...not mine) and you should be okay.

My MUST have sounds are:

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205
255
162
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c15
c16
c23
c24
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c27
c22 (this one is EVIL sounding... but it has pulled dogs in that did not pay attention to anything else thrown at them in the spring.
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L00
L02
245

the ones mentioned before work best for us in western PA...your area may/will be different. check with some local pred hunters to see if they favor any of the sounds over others. Lightnin' jack seems to be a go-to call for nearly every state in the lower 48 though.

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

by the way...if you ever want to have fun with the sig other- remote desktop to home, turn the home speaker output up, and "send all sounds to remote PC" on your settings, then play pup in distress. My wife is still shaking and twitching... she just called me and screamed "what the hell is WRONG with you?!?!?!" Click...i think she was napping LOL

 

[The_Hoff]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

hahahaha how do you do this exactly?

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

cus as I was going thru the foxpro sounds, i mistakenly had left the speakers on at the house (I was controlling the media center from an upstairs PC for the boys a couple days ago and forgot to move RDP sounds back to the remote PC...

After I got home, i realized just how funny this was - the home theater was still on, cranked, and when I queued it up, the pup in distress was playing at about 125 dB in the den...

She was afraid to go downstairs to see what the hell was making all that screaming, and she thought at first the dog had gotten caught in the furnace or something LOL...

Part of me feels bad...but just PART of me. the other part is still LMAO!!!

 

[Tripwire]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

Calling these VA 'yotes is more for the challenge of trying to call them in than anything else...getting them to respond is tough.

A good rifle, and a bait pile works pretty good.......

 

[jayd4wg]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

game commission carcass dumps are a good place to practice.

 

[CoCaDoRi]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

Jason ...

Thanks for the list. I'll see how well the list I ordered matches up.

 

[CoCaDoRi]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

My issues with the Yotes are a bit more business related.

The farm raises Angora goats for Mohair. The song dogs are getting bold and are close to taking liberties. I don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to extermination so I need to produce results asap.
I'm hoping the foxpro can deliver.

 

[Tripwire]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cocador</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My issues with the Yotes are a bit more business related.

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Live bait is the best...here's one less to bother my buddy's sheep, despite them killing a lamb on the other side of the farm that morning. Sucks when they win too. There's no respect for 'em given around here, targets of opportunity day in day out, all year....

 

[shoots100]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

If you've had bad luck during the daylight hours,you might have better luck at night.My area has alot of traffic in the woods during daylight,so the dogs usually venture out at night to feed.I have a decent gen-2+ NV scope and a cheapo gen 1 monocular with IR flashlight for glassing.I recently upgraded and bought a used thermal scope,so they can't hide from me at all now.As was mentioned,hunting over a bait pile is the next best thing if calling won't bring them in range.Watch the wind and your scent.The older dogs aren't as stupid as the youger ones and the younger ones that live,learn real quick from your mistakes.Good Luck,
STEVE

 

[mexicanmatch]

Re: Lil Help with eastern 'yotes..I have some question

I put a crow in distress call on a cheap tape player with a good size speaker, walked into the house and the wife went out to hang laundry and pressed the play button and walked on. That thing was on high and in minuets i had more crows and blue jays all over the place. Wife dropped the laundry and came screaming into the house wanting to know what i was doing, she thought it was a country music tape. Seams the dogs all around gut upset also, i was laughing so hard my side hurt. It was country music all right but not her type.MM