Colockum Cows

[jstone]

Over 1000 permits for antlerless? Wow that's a lot. I havent hunted up the sense the true spike think, is the herd that good? Or trying to make the bull to cow ratio look better than it is?

[Rainier10]

I don't understand why they didn't switch it back to cows also during the early general archery hunt.  They gave out a ton of permits for that early hunt last year and I can't imagine that just going to a general hunt would have that big of an impact.  My guess is that when they went to spikes only in the early season it reduced pressure in the area by having some hunters change GMU's and hunt areas open for both.

[vandeman17]

I don't understand why they didn't switch it back to cows also during the early general archery hunt.  They gave out a ton of permits for that early hunt last year and I can't imagine that just going to a general hunt would have that big of an impact.  My guess is that when they went to spikes only in the early season it reduced pressure in the area by having some hunters change GMU's and hunt areas open for both.

If they did that then they couldn't get the increased revenue from the applications for the tags. 

[Rainier10]

I don't understand why they didn't switch it back to cows also during the early general archery hunt.  They gave out a ton of permits for that early hunt last year and I can't imagine that just going to a general hunt would have that big of an impact.  My guess is that when they went to spikes only in the early season it reduced pressure in the area by having some hunters change GMU's and hunt areas open for both.

If they did that then they couldn't get the increased revenue from the applications for the tags. 

One of these days I will remember to put on my revenue generating thinking cap instead of my common sense cap when discussing WDFW policy.

[180-GRAIN]

I don't understand why they didn't switch it back to cows also during the early general archery hunt.  They gave out a ton of permits for that early hunt last year and I can't imagine that just going to a general hunt would have that big of an impact.  My guess is that when they went to spikes only in the early season it reduced pressure in the area by having some hunters change GMU's and hunt areas open for both.

If they did that then they couldn't get the increased revenue from the applications for the tags. 

Yep making up for the price drop on the multi deer and second deer tags 

[C-Money]

1000 cow tags? Do you have a link to the 2014 regs?

[jstone]

I get emails on updates from the F&G it said they want to change the cow tags from 370 to 1016. Also more Yakima herd tags.

[TriggerMike]

1000 cow tags? Do you have a link to the 2014 regs?

This link isn't to the regs but it is to the news release from today. Explains what they decided on at the meeting last Friday and Saturday.

http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/news/apr1414a/

[Dan-o]

wow....   That's a batch of cow tags.

[jason stevens]

Gonna be a bigger pumkin patch this year.

[bobcat]

Here's a link to the proposed regulations, which is what was approved last week:


http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/regulations/2014/wsr_14-03-135.pdf

[C-Money]

Wow...I gotta look and see if they are still opening cows on Wednesday. Gonna be quite a few modern cow tags to fill in 5 days...its gonna be a slaughter.

[C-Money]

Looks like cow season starts on Wed, hope I draw one!!

[D-Rock425]

I wonder what the breakdown of tags will be for each user group.

[dreamingbig]

It was already in the proposal.  I don't have it handy but heavily weighted to MF.  One number I know off hand is that little naches cow permits for MF were proposed to double to 500 from 250.  Zero for archery.  Don't give me that late season malarkey either.


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