Foxes washington

[Savage.06Shot]

So I know there has been a decreased amount of foxes due to coyotes increasing in numbers but are there any places in Washington you can hunt foxes? Just curious cause I know the regs say all national forests are closed....does this mean you can hunt DNR land or is that national forest as well? Had a dream I shot one of those beautiful creatures now I wanna make it a reality.

[wolftrapper]

Quote: "Closed within the exterior boundaries of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, Okanagan, Wenatchee, and Gifford Pinchot National Forests."

So everything else is open to fox hunting, as I understand it, and I would shoot a fox anywhere other than these areas.  Unless the areas had other restrictions for hunting in general, that might apply.

[Firedogg]

  Someone got one on Redondo Way heading up from Saltys... road kill.

[JimmyHoffa]

aren't there a bunch in the san juan islands? 

[Jerry malbeck]

In all my years of calling on the eastside I have seen only one, It got a free pass

[Igottanewknee]

Or even Point Defiance park... Somebody shot one with a pellet gun a few years back... There was an article in the paper... 

[JJB11B]

I see them in the Moses Lake area quite a bit

[Bango skank]

In all my years of calling on the eastside I have seen only one, It got a free pass

I would do the same.  As much as im all for thinning out yotes, cougs, bears and wolves, i really dont have any desire to kill a fox.  Never seen one on the east side.  Only ever seen two red foxes, both on the west side.  Theyre neat critters and i dont see them as any substantial threat to big game populations.  If i ever call one in the only thing ill shoot it with is my camera.  That being said, if op wants to shoot one, more power to him.  Not bashing anybody for shooting them. 

[79TA7.6]

About 4 years back we had a silver colored fox on the property. We saw something out in with the cows, thought it might be a yote so we grabbed the guns and went out in the field. It was winter and snow covered the ground. By the time we got to the location we saw it, it was gone. A few days later we saw it again, but we were ready, and it was much closer. Close enough to notice it was a funny looking yote. It started walking towards the road where we were and finally figured out it was a fox. When it saw us it took off for the aluminum mainline we pile up during the winter. It ran and tried to hide inside of them. We jumped on the pipes to scare it off, then fired a couple of rounds towards it. We had no intentions of shooting it, just wanted to run it off the property.

Have never seen another since. The old man says he has never seen one before this either.

[Eric M]

There used to be a pair living in Saltwater State Park in Des Moines (Wa). One of them got hit by a car and no one ever saw the other one again.

[Naches Sportsman]

So I know there has been a decreased amount of foxes due to coyotes increasing in numbers but are there any places in Washington you can hunt foxes? Just curious cause I know the regs say all national forests are closed....does this mean you can hunt DNR land or is that national forest as well? Had a dream I shot one of those beautiful creatures now I wanna make it a reality.

I have seen them on dnr land off the 410 corridor.

[Savage.06Shot]

@wolftrapper with that being said what does this mean? About where to hunt them I'm a east side boy so all I know is Wenatchee national forest...DNR ?

[huntandjeep]

I called one in in Cowiche once , but let him walk. Saw another a couple years later in the same area while enjoying lunch while Jeeping. That one got lucky I couldn't get to the AR fast enough.

[Savage.06Shot]

Crazy lol cowiche is DNR right? Lol

[Maverick]

Ive gotten five, my dad has gotten two, and Ive called one in for my buddy and brother each. All in southeast Washington. I havnt seen any this year yet, but had one on trail camera.  Called a good looking red one in last year but he disappeared before I could shoot. They are a very cool animal to call in and hunt!