I used mouth calls when I lived in NY, but the eastern yotes are tough to hunt, they wont come in to calls that easy, I had a cheap cass creek $25. e-caller with extended speak, but it never worked well. Now here in TX, that old e-caller worked couple times before crap'n out, but mouth calls work great here. The mouse was a hand squeeker, small and worked great, my dog or cats probably confiscated it for themselves! I just ordered from midway an ICO 500 to do exactly that place it about 50yds away from me and attention to it. I have never used decoys but in NY we used to pop a squirrel and use it on the way into the woods usually, the seasons coincided. That didn't always work there either, here I don't bother but it probabloy would work great bc some landowners around here do tha with farm animals that die.