My dad had the QB tag in there a couple years ago and really struggled to find bulls on the weyco land. He attributed it to the way weyco managed their clearcuts. The amount of herbicide they dumped really limited the feeding opportunities for elk when compared to when he had the tag 10 years prior and harvested a nice 5x5 and had lots of action. Most of the elk he came across in the Toutle Unit were actually on the DNR Land on the north end where the Toutle unit boarders the mudflow. This land can be accessed without a weyco permit by traveling to the town of Toutle, then out to signal peak and up to the 3000 line which borders the two units. The DNR clear cuts looked green and lush at the beginning of June this year and the weyco cuts (Glassing from the DNR land south across the south fork of the toutle to the Weyco land) were brown and dead looking.
Additionally if you hunt the DNR land close to the mudflow you'll push the elk down to me (I drew a mudflow QB archery tag this year) which would be greatly appreciated.
Finally, all of this is to be taken with a grain of salt since my dad has become more of a road hunter in the last few years than he used to be. It happens to the best of us. If you hike into enough hell holes in Washington looking for elk, you'll eventually find something to shoot at.
Hope this helps,
Colton
