I want a cougar

[DoubleJ]

how do I get one?  I got a tag months ago just figuring I'd shoot one if I came across it.  Now I want to pursue one.  Where do i go and what technique do I use?  I'm so green to this that I'm actually blue 

[PolarBear]

Seeing that you are in Shelton try from Spider Lake over to Wynoochie.  My cousin has shot several out of there over the past few years and has seen a few that he couldn't connect with this year.  He uses a variety of calls but his fawn distress seems to work the best.

[bobcat]

Wait for some fresh snow and then go find some tracks. Follow the tracks until you catch up to the cat. Easy as that! (not really)

I would try up in the Hoodsport area. There is state land and National Forest that you can hunt up there.

[DoubleJ]

Any time of day better than another?  Are the females still with kittens?  Once I've found tracks, and start calling, what do I keep an eye out for?  Are they like deer where if they see a human they'll run the other way or are they not too botherd by humans?

[MADMAX]

I personally like ams early enough to see good, the one I shot had no kittens with her and was 3 and half years old,. they are NOT scared of you,when you are calling they come to eat, remember that, shoot straight and I have found with cats lift the weapon your using nice and slow and they will hold.............usually!

[JimmyHoffa]

If you check the tracks in the snow, the females with kittens might have additional tracks with them.  One method, proving to be difficult, is to find a cougar's cached kill.  Set up near it and wait for the cat or use a call with coyote sounds.  If you don't have snow available, try to find game animals.  In some of the areas I go to, the cats follow the elk around.  The elk can be seen feeding in a field and the cat will be walking around the perimeter in the brush.  You can also talk to ranchers and sheep farmers.  They can usually tell you if there is a cat in the area, then you could try calling or baiting.  As said above, the fawn bleat/distress is a good call to try.

[rainshadow1]

Check my story page... website in my sig line.

It's very possible to do it on purpose!

[DoubleJ]

Cougars can have kittens any time of year.

Oh yea.  I remember reading somewhere that if you could do a cougar in heat growel that it worked sometimes

[bearmanric]

what Polarbear said. i use to spend alot of time. up there lot's of cougar and bobcat's. going up this weekend. if i get caught up on call making. there is a certa

[Yeti]

I was just flipping through the regs and didnt find an answer to this question....

Is it legal to bait cougars?

[JimmyHoffa]

As far as I know, yes.  The only things you can't bait are: turkeys, migratory game birds, and bears.  Until King County gets to vote on it of course.

[Machias]

It is legal to bait cougars.

[quadrafire]

You are baiting them every time you walk into the woods

[CountryslickR]

          hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[Yeti]

You are baiting them every time you walk into the woods

        hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

   I had that one coming.