Secret spots

[X-Force]

My secret spots are all for sale for a price. General and permit.

Trophy elk
Trophy bear
Consistent deer (4pt or better)

WA and ID.

PM me. Cash or PayPal.

 

[greenhead_killer]

I got burned by this too. It’s crazy how people feel the need to cash in on your hard work. I am very selective on who I tell. Vandeman is about the only one who knows all my spots

[Dan-o]

Biggest mistake i ever made was bringing a buddy to fish my secret spot ay Blue Creek on the Cowlitz.

I didn't learn my lesson.     
The next year I told the same guy I was gonna fish the lake Washington sockeye opener and troll by the I-90 Bridge.   Good grief it was crowded!!!

Oh crap.....   that might have been a little too specific   

[Chukar]

Crappie and Bluegill.
West side.
I’ll offer $10.
Hip me.

[Igor]

Crappie and Bluegill.
West side.
I’ll offer $10.
Hip me.

Campbell Lake, Anacortes, WA

[Mr Mykiss]

Had a dude call a landowner a few days after I took him there and we both shot deer. Landowner called me and told me about it.
I called dude and said “you know I’ve been hunting there for 10 years and break bread with that landowner a dozen times a year right??”
Effin DB.

[blackpowderhunter]

my wife is a hs teacher..
she had a student ask her where i elk hunt.
"in the woods" was her response.
shes a keeper!

[Rob]

I will choose to share my hard earned locations with select people, however I guard any spots shared with me by others with my life and would never hunt those spots without some kind of mutual agreement (i.e. with them).

Case in point, during Spring bear this year, I had conversations going with several people.  I shared my bear sightings with many of them, however if one of them shared a location with me, I did NOT pass it along to anyone else.  Just seems like basic manners to me!

[NW SURVEYOR]

True story,
I live down the street from a guy that hunts all the time.
He is very succesful and we chat about huntinhg all the time, but rarely specifics.
He and I both hunt Idaho, but have never exchanged details.
We have never hunted together and only get together for a beer once or twice a year.

Anyways, last season my partner and I were walking in on a trail to our "Spot" when we encounter a guy walking out at daylight.
Lo and behold, it's my neighbor!
He had a bum hip and couldn't manage the hike with his son and was returning to his rig.
So we laugh about the hypocricy of meeting 500 miles from home on a trail.
Anyways, I felt like I has to explein to my partners that this was coincidental, which he knows is the truth because we never share spots with those not in our circle.

[GWP]

After 50 years of hunting, I have determined there are NO 'secret spots'. Maybe 'lesser known and used spots', but not 'secret'.
I have a friend that hunts Indian artifacts, arrowheads and the like, not in this State. He will study an area and determine where the best hunting spot, camping spot, would be, and starts looking.
Another friend was with him on a trip and when they sat down in a 'chosen area' the guy scraped the ground where he was sitting and found an old broken clay pipe buried in the ground. Someone, many, many, many years before, sat in that very same camping spot and left a broken clay pipe.
Wife and I have a 'secret' spot for waterfowl hunting. WAY back through hard walking, nasty area's. Even there, we have seen footprints on the ground. And shells. And human leavings.
Nothing warms my heart like being in a pristine, remote area and finding human garbage...

[Magnum_Willys]

I had a lot of secret spots in the gpnf.  Secret has been so well kept even the game no longer can findem!   

[2MANY]

LOL

[Igor]

Many, many years ago a good friend and myself liked to backpack in the Sierras in California.  Our all-time favorite "hike" was up over a 12,000' pass, and we camped in the Pioneer Lakes Basin at 11,000'.......not a tree in sight.  There were four small lakes just full of native California golden trout.  We hiked up there on four different trips, and never saw another soul.

Fast forward 40+ years, and my wife and I were wandering around downtown Edmonds.  We were in a small shop where a guy had some paintings of lakes and mountains, and I commented while looking at one......"That looks like Pioneer Lakes".  He said "It is".  We chatted for a few minutes, and he said he had made many trips to the Pioneer Lakes Basin.  Guess our "secret" spot wasn't exactly a secret, after all.

[Igor]

Fishing in this "secret spot" pictured above is just incredible.....you can catch a limit of native Golden trout in less than an hour.

And, I will give detailed directions on how to get there.

[GASoline71]

Nothing warms my heart like being in a pristine, remote area and finding human garbage...

Chaps my hide to find trash in the woods anywhere.  But finding it in deep really sucks.

Gary