Opossum Anyone - Roadkill Now On The Menu

[pianoman9701]

Along with the new limits on baiting, roadkill has been "delisted" and is now up for grabs. Does that mean we can collect heads in the woods now, too?

[Bango skank]

No, i no longer have the pdf on my phone, but i had downloaded that stuff and reading through it, it said that meat coild be salvaged but not heads / antlers.  If you want to take a buck roadkill basically you have to take all salvagable meat and the rack goes to wdfw.  And if you were to take say just the backstraps and hind quarters you could be cited for wastage 

I really dont feel like digging through wdfw website to find it, but its there somewhere for anybody to take a look.

[Special T]

Not sure on the road kill opossum unless inwas the one that thumped it!

[pianoman9701]

I see I missed the earlier thread on this. No deer in Clark? That blows. http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,193826.0/topicseen.html

[Humptulips]

Nothing but deer or elk anyway. "possum, bear, turkey, whatever you still can't touch it.

[bearpaw]

Possum isn't protected, you should be able to pick it up already.

[adamR]

It specifically says deer and elk meat... Also the last rules I saw had the antler part crossed out, so you didn't have to give up the antlers anymore... Technically you are supposed to dispose of the inedible parts though.
It's item #12 on the agenda...

http://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/2016/04/agenda_apr0816.html

[RatRodMike]

Nothing but deer or elk anyway. "possum, bear, turkey, whatever you still can't touch it.

I would imagine that anything considered a fur-bearer would remain off limits;which is stupid.

I've only seem a roadkill bear once.  I was glad that it wasn't me that hit it.

[BOWHUNTER45]

With all the Southerners we have around here I doubt we will see another opossum ever again ...dead or alive . lmao

[Special T]

With all the Southerners we have around here I doubt we will see another opossum ever again ...dead or alive . lmao

Thats because they taste so GOOD!

[Bluemoon]

The reason the Chicken crossed the road, Is to prove to the Opossum that it could be done...

[JDHasty]

You really don't want to eat a "wild" possum that is freshly killed anyway.  Lotsa' coonass friends who were all excited thirty years ago when possums showed up here in western WA.  They say ya' have to feed them on corn and milk for a week or two to get the rancid roadkill they have been eating out of the meat though.

If the possum did not make it and could not be transported home or croaked before being fed for a couple weeks they fed it to the dogs. 

But what I was served was pretty darn good, I think... coonass friends also will not allow a visitor to not have a taste.... or two ... or three.. or a mason jar full.  And that means whatever moonshine they have been distilling that visitors will be offered regardless of if the visit is at 05:00 or noon.

Hey, if a coonass says possum has to be fed, by God!!!  Given some of the other things coonasses don't shy away from cooking up, that is good enough advice for me to have driven past many a roadkilled possum without a second thought.     

[bigtex]

Possum isn't protected, you should be able to pick it up already.

Nope. All dead wildlife is prohibited from being possessed unless it was taken lawfully. The exception will now be deer and elk.