Yowiehunters Forum

I was just wondering what bait attracts Yowies?

All animals have a weak spot
~Trout is their own eggs
~Fox an injured bunny noise
~Ducks well you all know the noise
~Deer love apples or using a call

etc etc

Well something must attract our friend.

Have these ideas been used or thought of?

Recording the noise of someone stomping and snapping tree branches then play it back really loud?

Using any possible yowie recordings and playing that back really loud?

Placing a series of foods in a hot spot to see what smell drives them mad?

As with most male animals if they think another male is invading their territory they will come running, so could he be tricked out of hiding.

Maybe have a go at banging a bick stick on the trunk of a tree. It would certainly attract yowie hunters so i would assume it may attract a yowie also...just a thought

Yep , just as bowhunter said ! It works well on many outings ! As for animals scent , well all I can say is that it has given great success , the only problem being , I don't think it's my place to disclose the scent which was used , as it has , up untill now , been kept as somewhat of a secret ! The person/persons visit this site alot , so if they are willing to pass on their tricks of the trade , I'm sure they'll contact you ! Check out your local gun shop , as they usually stock a bit of a variety of animal scents ! Trial and error ! But they do give results from useing them !

Attracting Yowies.

I've been thinking about this for a while now. What attracts most creatures is another creature of the same.

I would suggest a mirror... a big one. Made out of perspex so if things went pear shaped, no injury would occur.

Here's a link to how Chimpanzees react when faced with their own reflection.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract

I realize that it might be a long bow to compare a Yowie to Chimpanzee but... Both are curious inquisitive creatures... The draw back is that the Chimp hangs around in large numbers so it's used to seeing other Chimps...

The project I would actually like to work on is a Decoy, like they use on Ducks. You could rig it with cameras to capture any interaction.

It would also be useful as a passenger so you could use the transit lane in peak hour traffic.

Whatever stimulus that is brought into the Yowie's territory is already affected by the sheer fact that you are there.

Cheers Buck

Nice point. On the noise side is there any good possible recorded noise from a possible yowie? If so if this was played back say in a valley somewhere and that call was of a male imagine the possible response.
Yes that would be great if you could set it up to play and leave it playing and have that area under the watchful eye CCTV so no human scent was around.

Over in ameriac they have been using "sound blasting" with some apparent sucess.

The only thing that im a lil weiry of is that we dont really know what the "calls" are saying that the people send out. For all we know we might be sending out "Danger !! Get away as quick as you can"


No harm in trying though

Or the sounds that we hear are a warning...come closer and ill rip your limbs off...etc...lol...
not a very persuasive thing to say to an 8ft 400 pound creature compared to a 6 foot man...

Find a comfortable spot & wait. If they're interested, they'll come to you. After all, they'll know you're there before you know they're there.

Alex wrote:Find a comfortable spot & wait. If they're interested, they'll come to you. After all, they'll know you're there before you know they're there.

Couldnt agree with you more Alex

Hi Stainmaster
As the guys have mentioned sitting and waiting in a known hotspot is a good place to start.
BUT
Like Darren has mentioned different scents have been tried .WE ourselves have used Deer scent in a known Yowie HotSpot knowing that thier are No Deer in the area and have had Great success so if you are out and about in a area and know thier are no deer well give it a go it cost Us about 20 dollars for 250 ml at a army supplier at redcliffe.
Have also left fruit in known spots to find it gone..yerryerr ,other animals but it nice to just think he or she is getting in first.
Have also left kiddie soccer Balls in remote parts of QLD to find them Gone ,SO If you see something big hairy and carrying a Ball YELL out and say the owner of the ball wants it back...our if you have found a ball and removed from the bush[remote]Give us a PM and tell us where u found it..
Cheers
P.S Anything is worth a shot

Has anyone thought about Yowie "catnip"?

It'd be easy.. get some of that deer scent.. douse some cotton with it, sew some material around it. Instant yowienip. I'm not sure what this would accomplish, but hey, it'd be worth trying out, wouldn't it?

That's an idea for another comic Alex.
A yowie kicking around one of Nigel & Jeannie's soccer balls.
It would be interesting to know if it was a yowie who took them, what did they then do with them.

somewhere out in the Aussie Wilderness there is a yowie lining up for a hook shot.......and yesssss! He puts it through and the crowd goes willllllddddd!

On a more sensible note, (well atlest I hope you guys will think it is), how about leaving one of those lifelike baby dolls in a hot spot. I have heard how BF is interested in children, and have heard similar things about the yowie, if the old memory serves me correctly.
A baby doll would be outside its field of experience I would imagine and might get a bit of attention. (I know,probably a stupid idea!)

Onya Cass ! Now I remember why you're one of my favourite people - you save me from being the one who usually comes out with the gross stuff.
Take care
Preacher

Firstly, why would you WANT to lure a yowie? I mean, unless you were looking for trouble, the best thing to do is wait for it to come to you...if your lucky youll get one...but personally I wouldnt go luring them out...if you do you gotta be prepared...self defence all the way...

You don't find the Hairy Grail, The Hairy Grail finds you...

Cheers Buck

EXACTLY Buck!

Cass wrote:OKAY..... I've waited alllll this time for 'someone else' to come along and be 'the gross one'. Here's my idea:

You could take some good old Australian woman scent along with you. Yes, while she has her period. What better peice of bait do you want :!:

OR you could just stick with a burly mix of dear scent........

That'd work. I asked my fianc? & she said no outright. Back to the drawing board.

The_Great_one42 wrote:Firstly, why would you WANT to lure a yowie? I mean, unless you were looking for trouble, the best thing to do is wait for it to come to you...if your lucky youll get one...but personally I wouldnt go luring them out...if you do you gotta be prepared...self defence all the way...

Taken Me wrong .
The scent is applied to tape decks and other equipment left behind to capture its movements

Mate have you seen what Deer do to Man NO Thanks

Would only apply to myself if out on a deer hunt and was armed Big Bang Stik Which I dont Have

Cheers

It's my observation from previous encounters that yowies, more often than not, won't attack unless you piss it off.

Then again, who knows what pisses them off.

But we're not talking about a foot and a half long fish who cant do anything on land..we're talking about an 8ft+ 400 pound+ creature who knows the bush like the back of his hand...a creature who could tear you limb from limb...and if you were to try and lure one out, you never know if there are more around...there could be a family of them...then your in big trouble...4+ yowies against 2 or 3 unarmed people? not good...

Armed, unarmed. What's the difference. Either way they'll be all over you faster than a fast, hairy thing that wants to nibble at you.

My point? I thought I was clear enough but obviously I wasnt...
I wouldn't want to be face to face with one or more 8ft 400 pound agressive and obviously hungry yowie...defensless...you never know what could happen...

Ok, more than likely, when it goes & has a peek at you, it wouldn't be hungry.

Think about it, if Yowies liked human flesh, they'd stray more into suburbia.
They're mainly herbivores. Well, not mainly, but they don't souly live off humans

I'd say it'd have a bit of a tantrum at you, and you'd back off, it'd be happy. As would you, you'd have had a kickass encounter & lived to tell the tale.

From what I can make out, they only attack when you're in their territory/threatening their young, and they give you plenty of warning too. So, if you go in further, regardless of how many stomps/roars/howls/shreiks you hear, then if you get savaged, it's your own fault. After all, you wouldn't like it if some unknown came wandering in your yard, trying to take pictures of you/taking pictures of your kids, would you?

The_Great_one42 wrote:Alex...wouldnt you want to go down fighting? I know I wouldnt want to die without at least causing a bit of damage...then maybe it would give my companion(s) time to escape or maybe even to let someone else find the yowie from the noise its causing...

Ok, i'm about.. 5"9, about 8 1/2 stone. It'd be like attacking a bull with an inflatable doll. I'd have no chance, so no, I wouldn't go down fighting. And as for, saving my fellow humans?
I'm going to sound awful selfish here, but i was being attacked, my first thought wouldn't be "oh, i hope my companions are all safe", it'd be more along the lines of "ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit i'm going to die, take them instead, please!!#%". But then again, I wouldn't put myself in that situation in the first place, so it most likely wouldn't happen.

Some are more agressive than others...and if you LURE it out with food or some sort then of course its going to be hungry, and when it finds you with the food then guess what? youd be eaten along with it :P

to lure a yowie you must PLAY near a bush line yowie's are attracted to these kind of things. Just the other night i was standing out on a property with my daughter whom was playing when rocks was throwed not far from me i know it was one because i read all the storys so i got my child and ran like hell. well i think thats how you lure one i know i shore did.

Angel just be careful with your daughter near the bush, my oldest daughter and her friend were stalked for about 1km by a yowie.
My toddler was out on our deck one day and I could see her through our window. I heard her say hello and start chatting, I got up to go outside and check on what was happening when she started crying. She was standing there staring at some bushes and was obviously scared.
It's unlikely to have been a person, if you could see the terrain of our place you'd understand why.
From what I've read and seen myself, yowies seem to be attracted to kids, but why is still in question.

I would never assume that these creatures are friendly and mean us no harm! As Tish says there are many reports from all over where they appear to have an interest in kids. I would never assume my child was safe if I thought one was in the vicinity. Just like I wouldn't trust a dog around my kids if I didn't personaly know it! We don't know enough about them to be able to tell whether its curiosity or lunch!