Troy Ruiz will take you to the next step of learning and mastering the mouth call. One of the most fundamental noises you can make as a turkey caller is a hen yelp. Troy will get you started on yelping with a mouth call.
Yelping is one of the fundamental aspects of turkey calling. If you breakdown the yelp, it includes the fundamentals for almost all vocalizations. The yelp is the basic turkey sound, and toms, hens, and jakes all do it. It’s essentially saying “Here I am” in turkey speak. There are a couple of different types of yelps, and we’ll go over what they mean and when to use them.
EXCITED YELP
The excited yelp is just a change in cadence from your regular 3-8 note yelp. It would be the difference in saying “Hey ya’ll I’m over here” to “HEY. HEY. HEY COME HERE QUICK”. It’s a great way to get a longbeard fired up and headed in your direction. Mix in Cuts with excited yelping, and look for Mr. April coming to kick the hinges off. A great diaphragm call for getting fast on and mixing in cuts with excited yelps is the Razor Hooks with a Bat Cut.
TREE YELP
The tree yelp is the sound made by a hen while at roost in the tree. This is a more of a content call, as she is waking up and just starting to see where everyone is located. It is a great call to use when trying to coax a gobbler off the limb to your position. The goal in a lot of roost situations is to play a little hard to get. If you start hammering a gobbler on the limb with cuts, and exciting yelping, he will often either stay up in the tree and gobble, waiting for the hen he heard to walk within eyesight before pitching down. Or he’ll pitch down right by the base of the tree waiting for his lady friend to arrive. Therefore a tree yelp works great, because it gives away your position without being too committed.
