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Trust me I would love a late hunt here every year BUT the deer population couldn’t handle it. Late quality tag is fine with me especially if I eventually draw one with that being said and guys will be mad but what would be better is like a elk tag pick east or west and that will help the populations especially blacktail with it having a longer general season !Oh ya and bring back hound hunting, foothold and snare trapping and baiting to actually have a tool to control predators ( especially coyotes)
Quote from: JakeLand on November 09, 2018, 05:35:25 AMTrust me I would love a late hunt here every year BUT the deer population couldn’t handle it. Late quality tag is fine with me especially if I eventually draw one with that being said and guys will be mad but what would be better is like a elk tag pick east or west and that will help the populations especially blacktail with it having a longer general season !Oh ya and bring back hound hunting, foothold and snare trapping and baiting to actually have a tool to control predators ( especially coyotes) 100 % agreed. As much as I would enjoy a late rifle the units i hunt would not Support it. We do really need the hounds especially for the cats, they are out of control in a couple of these units. Trail cams can be very eye opening. Wonder if we could atleast get a special draw implemented for hounds. Bear baiting would be nice but we should atleast have a statewide general spring season in addition to fall. It’s amazing the coincidence on cam with lack of fawns in certain areas that have lots of bears.
I agree with what has been said as well. i just think the whole game department needs to be restructured on how they manage or see whats actually important. It should flat out be that critters come first, then the people, then politics. Seems pretty well backwards in my opinion of how things are ran and have been ran for years now. Though I may be wrong as I actually try to stay out of the whole politics game because it just makes me have a bad day haha. You know its kind of funny (well not really) and I know its dependent on the Bio but I have talked with quite a few of them about animals and it just amazes me how their eyes can light up and they get all excited about some little critter such as a wolverine or fisher that I've seen but when you talk about any game animal such as elk or deer...they just are mono-tone and don't seem to care much. What is that?
Quote from: skagitsteel on November 09, 2018, 06:23:14 AMQuote from: JakeLand on November 09, 2018, 05:35:25 AMTrust me I would love a late hunt here every year BUT the deer population couldn’t handle it. Late quality tag is fine with me especially if I eventually draw one with that being said and guys will be mad but what would be better is like a elk tag pick east or west and that will help the populations especially blacktail with it having a longer general season !Oh ya and bring back hound hunting, foothold and snare trapping and baiting to actually have a tool to control predators ( especially coyotes) 100 % agreed. As much as I would enjoy a late rifle the units i hunt would not Support it. We do really need the hounds especially for the cats, they are out of control in a couple of these units. Trail cams can be very eye opening. Wonder if we could atleast get a special draw implemented for hounds. Bear baiting would be nice but we should atleast have a statewide general spring season in addition to fall. It’s amazing the coincidence on cam with lack of fawns in certain areas that have lots of bears.I agree with everything here. I’d also like to see timber harvest come back to the NF, I know that’s unlikely. At least we get to hunt until Halloween, for now...
Whatever. It’s a joke. I’ll keep giving WA my yearly hour of deer hunting and take the majority of my money elsewhere.