Calling SongDogs in Feb/March

[HogHunter34]

I know mating season will pick up next few weeks or so. Tends to peak in late Feb/early March.
I've been trying to call here lately within past month or so but no luck. Mainly using distressed sounds....jackrabbit, cottontail, pup screams

My place is wooded with not much openings so it's difficult to get great views. Very limited. Thinking of relocating to a edge of property where I have more direct line of sight down an easement where I have yotes on camera cruising back and forth different times during the night.

What's strategy on calling as mating season picks up? Continue with traditional distress or throw in some female howls/barks?
What's the TBH predator hunters say on this?
Thanks

[Drycreek3189]

I’ve never had much luck in the woods. They are almost always gonna try to get the wind on you and that’s not hard for them to do with that much cover. If you can see a pretty good ways down that easement and get the wind blowing sideways you can at least hope they will come up close enough for a rifle shot before they cut downwind.

When I was working I had several places I could hunt with just asking because I saw lots of cattlemen in my job. Open country is better. People who would never let you deer hunt will let you coyote hunt.

[HogHunter34]

I’ve never had much luck in the woods. They are almost always gonna try to get the wind on you and that’s not hard for them to do with that much cover. If you can see a pretty good ways down that easement and get the wind blowing sideways you can at least hope they will come up close enough for a rifle shot before they cut downwind.

When I was working I had several places I could hunt with just asking because I saw lots of cattlemen in my job. Open country is better. People who would never let you deer hunt will let you coyote hunt.

I agree. The cover is tough and a big disadvantage for me. Even our place in northern Anderson county is even thicker in cover.
I need to check around if anyone wants or needs yotes taken out with more open country

[AntlerCollector]

Use a female yote call and get where you can see good

[txhoghunter2]

I love calling in the timber. They’re on top of you in no time. Carry a shotgun. Try coyote vocals.

[okrattler]

I use breeding sounds mostly. I don't use challenge barks or howls unless I hear one doing it first. Using those first I feel like a more timid coyote that can hear the call will be afraid to come in. The way I figure it is they're like everything else on the planet. They all like to breed. But you may have a dominant female come in to a breeding sounds too just because she doesn't want that going on in her territory.

Of course that's just a theory of mine and how I do it. Doesn't mean it's spot on but I've killed enough doing it that way to feel confident enough to give that kind of advice.

But I spend a lot of time listening to coyotes too so I can get somewhat of an idea of what they're saying and what howl or bark means what. I can sit on my front porch after sundown and hear them talking to each other less than a mile from my house. I'll remember those sounds and can pretty much tell what's going on over there. The other night I heard a lone female about 600 yards from the house. It was really foggy that night and she was letting out some sore howls. It sounded eery as all get out. I bet the first person to ever hear that was freaking out. Given that it was foggy it felt like something out of a horror movie. Just had a creepy vibe to it. My dogs were sitting outside with me until they heard that. They said to hell with this and went back inside. Brave protectors those two.

Having said all of that they'll still come in to prey in distress sounds too. They never stop eating.