I haven’t put my yote set back out yet but I have a different idea for making the animals really have to work at getting my bait out of the hole. I think I’m gonna try putting the bait in the back of the hole and then filling the hole about halfway up with gravel or small lava rocks over the top of my bait....packing it in good and tight. That should make them have to work for it a little bit anyways.

I’m smoking a Boston butt today and it reminded me that the smell of raw pork is pretty dang stinky. I was eyeballing some chitlins in the store the other day to try as bait and I may go ahead and give it a try in the hole with some deer meat….covered over with a few inches of gravel. I just can’t help but to think about all the deer me and Otis find while blood tracking that have had yotes on them within hours of dying. There’s no special recipe or proper “tainting time” or anything like that…..just deer meat and gut smell.