I cant stand not hunting right now so im going Yote hunting in the morning with the Bow. I can kill 2 more Doe's, but @ 24.00 buck's a tag, and having 3 Deer in freezer now, and expecting my son to kill another Deer, im just not going to kill another, unless I find someone who will take the meat. SO, I can Yote hunt for the rest of the year. The plan is to hunt from my climber, and put my electronic caller at base of tree. I have a remote for it so i can change settings for what ever call. Im going to set up between two wood lots that has cut cornfield between and deep ditch on one side of both of them. I had Yotes come in earlier while deer hunting, but season was not in yet. My son has seen them twice in the fields since then. Im a rookie at this so any tips would appreciated. What calls should I throw at them? I have several Coyote sounds as well as small game in distress on it. How often between calls? Shut call down when one is sighted? I also have one of those geekie looking rabbits on a motion activated stick for movement. Is this a good thing or leave it at home?
I've never yote hunted with a bow yet but when i rifle hunt for them i'll give em some distress calls for about a minute and a half and once they're spotted and fairly close you can make squeaking noises with your mouth to draw em in range. I've never used the decoy but i'm sure they work try it out! Good luck. Oh and with the coyote sounds i usually will give them some locator or challenge howls don't do much day howling though majority at night.
Cool info, im sure my chances are probably better in the evenings, so Ill try both Cant wait to try in the morn.
The best piece of advice I can give you (ESPECIALLY if the Yotes get pressured like they do around here) is don't do what everyone else is. What do you I think of when people says Coyote hunting? Rabbit in distress. Don't do it if you have pressured yotes. I tend to stick to coyote vocalizations...a few yips and some locator howls right at at dusk and you'll be golden Of course, I could be totally wrong and you could have great luck with distress calls....this is why I love the challenge of coyote hunting!
I have never called in a coyote, but did shoot one last year while deer hunting. Only thing I can tell you about coyote hunting is try to shoot them un-alerted. If you think deer are fast at jumping the string, coyotes are the same way. My bro shot one last year at 20 yards, broadside and the coyote was able to turn and have the arrow graze the offside shoulder and run away missing a little bit of hair. I stopped one at 30 yards with a little meh sound, made a perfect shot and he turned into the sound of the shot and actually got hit in the head and ran off. I searched for him for 3 hours and tracked him over 400 yards and never found him. He went through a fence and onto land I didn't have permission to go on.
Thanks Kyle, pretty much zero pressure on these Yotes here. I dont even know when the last time I heard of someone hunting them in my area. Now you cross the river into Illinois and they do alot of it there. Ill just have to experiment and go from there. Thanks guys!
what kind of call do you have? and if its the foxpro they have great bird distress calls and rabbit distress calls.... Here we use both if one doesn't work switch real quick and they'll come a running if their there. Good luck and tell us how it turns out
If the yotes is your area don't experience much pressure, it should be pretty easy to get on top of one pretty quick with your first calls. But once you call in one or two, they will wise up quick. After something stops working switch calls and locations. My favorite time to hunt them is early in the morning. I start blasting my calls 30 minutes before official sunrise and the success rate is exponentially higher than just a couple hours later. Here is a more concrete answer: If I was in your situation I would... Begin calling right at legal shooting time with rabbit in distress (Cottontail, not Jackrabbit) call for 60-90 seconds, then remain silent for 60-90 seconds....repeat. If that doesn't work switch to a woodpecker in distress call, with the same pattern. If you DO shoot a yote, immediatly start calling with a yote in distress call. Chances are other yotes will see the one you shot running off, and you need to give them a reason to investigate or they will be gone in a flash. Good luck in the morn, Crick. :D I love me some yote hunting.
Ahhhhh you're lucky then Crick! Like Will said, they will wise up fast! Good luck, hope you do well...it gets addicting! :D And on unpressured yotes...experimenting will work great...I wouldn't be afraid to use that decoy then either!!
Not so well I have a primos power Dog electronic caller. I got in tree at first light and after 1 single note from the caller it quit working. I climed down played with call, finally started bumping it with fist and it started working. Good,,,so climb back in tree, start calling and after the second series, it quites again Got pissed off, went home, drove 35 miles to pick up Jeep parts from Colision with Doe Not a good morning. Might try again this evening!
I agree with OKbowhunter. Early mornings and late evenings will be the best time. Using rabbit distress calls will be the most effective call to use until you've pressured them much. They wisen up really quickly and won't come charging right in so I would hold off on using the decoy until after you've pressured them a little. I also agree that using a yote distress call as soon as you shoot is a great tactic to trick another dog to come in to investigate. Also using a pup distress will get them in pretty effectively. I usually call pretty continuously for several minutes and then I give it a break for a few. You might call in a bobcat or other predators. Good luck.
