hey Prescott, heres a tip to help ya get those yotes at the cattle farm /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
get ya some yote urine and a spray bottle. go to the corner of the pasture and on the outside of the pasture, take your spray bottle and spray the post with urine about 8 inches up. before spraying, dig a trap bed and sift the dirt like you would a trap pattern, but don't put in a trap, yet /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif. go about 50 yards both ways and do the same, if the fence is barbed wire, pick an object that is way from the fence to spray /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif. that saves the fence and yote from being tore up. since yotes are territoral this time of year, they will think a intruder has showed up and will mark the object with their own urine to tell the intruder to leave. go back after about 2 days and do it again, no trap. let them get used to this game before you put the trap in. if you sift a big enough pattern, you will see tracks in the loose dirt, the yote is showing you where to put the pan /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif.
if the farmer has a dead pile you can get some rib bones out of it and drive them in the ground and put urine on them and use them for scent post set out in the pasture.
just be sure to stake your traps solid, if you can pull the the stake up so can a yote.
heres a pic of my chain (or should I say swivel set up) it keeps the yote on the ground so he can't pull more then a couple of inches. the more chain, the higher he can pull straight up /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
its nothing more then a swivel at the D-ring, a chain loop,and a swivel, then a Quick link and the earth anchor. I use the chain off a fire hydrant, (here they cut them off) so check with anyone laying waterlines along the road way to see if they will be putting in any hydrants and see if you can get the chain, its some strong stuff)
good luck and happy trapping