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Offline Todd_ID

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Washington's Wildlife Management Areas
« on: May 28, 2008, 08:34:41 PM »
I had a good thing to say about the WMA's today, so I thought that I'd share it.  I went turkey hunting in the Grouse Flats WMA in Asotin County today.  As I stepped out of the truck I heard turkeys gobbling on both sides of the truck, and I was ecstatic about the prospects.  As it turns out, my luck with the birds was nil; I couldn't get one within bow range for anything.  But the highlight of the trip was while I was watching 5 birds in the binos and waiting for them to get out of the field to move in and try to call in the tom; I looked up from the glasses and saw an elk coming out from behind a rigde.  I moved the glasses, and was delighted to see that it was a mature bull (and a good one at that).  When all was said and done, I had 8 large, mature bulls within 500 yards for over 2 hours.  I got several pictures and about 30 minutes of video of them playing and chasing each other.  To say I had a good day would be an understatement.  Who cares about turkeys when you can see big bulls for that long.  I'd guess from 5:30 until noon I saw about 110 elk with about 30 bulls of varying size.  Not all of them were on the WMA, but I'd guess that I saw 30 elk, 20 turkeys and 5 deer in that 500 acres today. 

I say congrats to the state, and I'd love to see more of those properties springing up.
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Re: Washington's Wildlife Management Areas
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 08:38:36 PM »
i had almost the same experience in almost the same place this spring twice.

the weekend after the opener, i was working a bird up asotin creek and looked up a ways up the mountain and saw a good sized herd of 15-20 bighorn sheep running around on the rocks...no big rams for the new tag i'm gonna draw, but they were probably around somewhere. that was a good day for me. deer all over the place. i didn't see any elk, but i'm sure i would have if i looked a little bit.
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