He mainly operated around the Giannitsa Lake and cooperated with other well respected revolutionaries such as Stergios Daoutis, Alexandros Mazarakis, Ioannis Demestichas, and Tellos Agras.

From a young age, he worked with his father and his brother Konstantinos Yiotas (also a future Makedonomachos) in the fields of the Agios Loukas Monastery just off the Lake of Giannitsa.

"[2] Gonos Yiotas had been involved with the IMRO in the band of his cousin, Apostol Petkov from 1900 to 1904, with whom he participated in the Ilinden Uprising and experienced several skirmishes against Ottoman troops.

The altercation occurred when three armed Komitadjis had entered the church where Gonos Yiotas was attending Sunday liturgy and demanded that the priest be replaced with one loyal to the Exarchate.

[4] Gonos Yiotas was instrumental in returning 6 villages from the Bulgarian Exarchate to the allegiance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and had encountered several clashes with the band of his cousin, Apostol Petkov.

In 1911, rumours had spread that Gonos Yiotas was angered by the actions of his former ally Apostolis Matopoulos and Dr. Antonakis and their collaboration with the Young Turks.

Following a betrayal, Gonos Yiotas was killed on 12 February 1911, during an operation of the Ottoman army which resulted in his encirclement at the Lake of Giannitsa.

Matopoulos would go on to flee to the United States while Dr. Antonakis would be executed for his acts of endangering the Greek cause.Following his death, the body of Gonos Yiotas was recovered and buried in the cemetery of Giannitsa.