Post by: dasbear on September 16, 2008, 09:08:22 PM
there are also some new clearcuts adjacent to reprods.
Post by: Bscman on September 16, 2008, 09:44:33 PM
I called one in last year with a home-made caller using a GOAT IN DISTRESS call I downloaded...never thought it would work, but it did. No goats around there!
The first one I ever called in was on a preymaster mixing chicken clucks and a fawn in distress...in an area where there were no chickens for at least 20 miles.
I'm still waiting for a chance to get out and try my "cat nip" call.
It sure gets the tomcats around the farm all riled up, so I'm hoping it'll help me connect with a biggun'.
They are sneaky and well camo'd with their fur. They tend to come in slow and cautious and will see you before you see them 99% of the time.
I wouldn't say I call them in consistently, but I usually manage to catch sight of a handful every year...but rarely have one that presents a shot.
Post by: Krusty on September 17, 2008, 12:25:19 PM
Where three roads come together, where three ages of cut connect, and the one lion hunters use, where three ridges meet.
Where three roads meet, is often marked with scat, or posted with pee.
Where three ages of forest meet, so do the bobcats basic needs. The clearcut provides good hunting for terrestrials, the intermediate growth provides heavier cover and the draw for birds to hunt, and the older dark timber provides shelter for denning and the darkness needed for hunting larger prey animals.
In the case of calling bobcats, the three ages of growth (one being fresh cut), are the most productive, as they don't tend to hold to the high ground or travel as widely as lions.
And because these are easy places to find, due to the patchwork nature of the logging industry.
More than anything, though, that youngest cut provides you the advantage of sight, increasing the area you are actually hunting, as oppose to the area you are calling and can't see.
Barring that, go back to your three roads (where legal to hunt over them), or three trails, and post your own 'cat urine when you find/use a spot, to "put it on the map" for any 'cats in the area, for next time.
Female vocalizations can be useful at these types of set-ups.
As far as sounds, I haven't found any predator to be more drawn to one sound more than another, or one call.
Curiousity is as much of a draw as anything else, that's why we call deer and other non predators, and there's no call that will turn that off in a bear or a coyote.
There's lots of bobcats around though, were there are bobcats, I've called (and seen) more 'cats, than coyotes and bears combined, on this side of the hill.
There's no such thing as consistency in predator calling, and there's no harder place to find anything close to it, than western Washington.
Best of luck to ya though. :)
Krusty (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.prodigy.net%2Frogerlori1%2Femoticons%2Fwave1.gif&hash=a79b2b094946ae3edb92c1d87183753de8213bad)
Post by: klickriverchromer on September 17, 2008, 06:45:43 PM
Post by: rasbo on September 19, 2008, 03:38:08 PM