How has the hunting been in the Winston?

[SI Eagle]

Just wondering with the decline of elk and the new permits how the hunting was?

[deerhunter_98520]

I heard it was expensive and not very good

[Bullkllr]

Been hunting Coweeman for my son's cow tag- been very little action from what we've seen.

[RadSav]

Lack of people has been nice!  Lack of animals has not been so nice!!!   Grouse and coyote hunting was good   Never saw a single elk in Winston.  Very few deer, but we did see a few flat tops.  Toutle side was much better for elk.  About the same for deer.

[sharpshooter1000]

Got a 4x3 on Tuesday. Four bulls and a cow the last five years. Just gotta know where to go. Hint.... Inside a truck is not it!

[sharpshooter1000]

Hanging in the cooler

[deerhunter_98520]

Got a 4x3 on Tuesday. Four bulls and a cow the last five years. Just gotta know where to go. Hint.... Inside a truck is not it!

Its warmer and dryer for most guys 

[SI Eagle]

From the lack of responses it must have been really slow?

[CoastalHunter]

I would rather have just boiled my tag instead of going up there like I did for the first 3 days of the season... We didn't see one thing from the Thursday Morning before season until Monday night when we left. And that is why we left cause it was DEAD... Some friends at Camp 9 all had the key permit and they usually get 2 to 3 bulls opening day and they didn't get anything or even see anything except for one buddy of mine Gary he almost hit a Cow that ran right in front of him on the way up to Winters. Other than that Nothing at all!!

I don't think I'm even going to buy the key next year unless I get drawn for a special permit.

[mpetersen]

Worst season in all the years I have hunted Winston. Hunted every day (on foot Sharpshooter from Shoreline) got a glimpse of one bull and four cows. Buddies 5x2 had hoof rot and an arrow wound in it's brisket, nasty looking elk with hardly any back straps and it's ribs where showing through. Talked to a guy from another camp and they took a 4x4 and three cows, all had hoof rot. Access road 560 was a joke that looked like a jeep trail and beat the *censored* out of your rig. Thank you weyco and wdfw for taking down the strongest elk herd in the state with your successful chemical warfare campaign and over harvest of cows. Won't be hunting elk in this state again because the westside is a couple years from being wiped out and I refuse to take a trip to the eastside to shoot bull calves. I sure as hell will not give another single cent to weyco, not worth it, and I feel like a smacked ass for participating in this scam in the first place

[fireweed]

Worst season in all the years I have hunted Winston. Hunted every day (on foot Sharpshooter from Shoreline) got a glimpse of one bull and four cows. Buddies 5x2 had hoof rot and an arrow wound in it's brisket, nasty looking elk with hardly any back straps and it's ribs where showing through. Talked to a guy from another camp and they took a 4x4 and three cows, all had hoof rot. Access road 560 was a joke that looked like a jeep trail and beat the *censored* out of your rig. Thank you weyco and wdfw for taking down the strongest elk herd in the state with your successful chemical warfare campaign and over harvest of cows. Won't be hunting elk in this state again because the westside is a couple years from being wiped out and I refuse to take a trip to the eastside to shoot bull calves. I sure as hell will not give another single cent to weyco, not worth it, and I feel like a smacked ass for participating in this scam in the first place

You hit the nail on the head.  Cow permits at King Weyco's insistence knocked the heck out of the herds, add to that hoof rot and permits and it adds up to an Idaho tag.

[Eli346]

Over harvest of cows the last 6 years and hoof rot have decimated the herd down there. Weyco should be prosecuted for what they've done to hunting on the westside!