Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Crawfish on October 21, 2008, 09:43:46 AM
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Ok, after 8 years of trying I finally drew an any bull tag for Peaches Ridge. We'll be setting up camp in the Little Naches Unit. Never hunted Little Naches, any one have any recommendations as to where to hunt to help make my 8 year wait successful? Thanks!
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http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?action=search2
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You should be there now! Get after them before the general season starts! Drive into any of the drainages running into the Little Nachees. If you don't care about trophys you should be able to locate a herd and a bull could still be running with them. Hurry!
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I was thinking the same thing. It is a little to late to be asking for a lot of help. Get off line and head out now!
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I did some scouting over a short weekend of deer season. Only saw a few cows and a dozen dow. Would love to be up there now! New job and could only get a week off and chose to hunt the last week as my brother is coming from Colorado. Any productive areas or suggestions would be great.
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with the weather that is hitting up there those early bull tag holders are going to have a great year, get into them hills asap!
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Damn , i live in cleelum and woke up to snow on all the hils . It would have been a great day today :bash:
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I've been working long days so I can get out of town and have lost touch on the forecast. It's already snowing up there????? I hope there's some bulls still left up there; my any bull tag is only good for Taneum and Little Naches.
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call in sick.....
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I only have one day left before I head out :drool: Any one know where I might be able to find an elk in Little Naches to fill my any bull tag? I hunted bald mountain some time ago and saw a couple spikes hanging in camps.
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How big of a bull are you looking for? I've been hunting the peaches ridge unit just north of actual peaches ridge and have seen a lot of decent 5 points and some nice six points, not to mention the two monster bulls i've been chasing but have been getting screwed up by another hunter who apparently knows nothing about hunting.
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5 or 6 points or larger...all would make me smile. Not familiar with the area north of Peaches Ridge...is that still in Little Naches or Taneum, my any bull permit is only good for those two units? Any info would help for that area. I've never had a chance at a big bull but I have lost some opportunities by a few hunters when hunting for spikes.
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here's my peaches bull i got during the archery season just above whistlin jack, plenty of bulls still running around up there
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Excellent archery bull! Congrats!
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Very nice bull....Congrats! I would be very happy to have the opportunity at a bull like that!
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PM sent.
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Rec'd your PM. Thank you!
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Nice loooking bull!
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nice archery bull
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was that the first or seccond arrow? it did the job but it hit some thing that stopped it cold. nice elk good job.
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that was the second arrow, the first arrow was just behind the shoulder on the other side
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Got back in town Sunday night with an empty big bull tag. Hunters were in there thick but not much elk. I saw a rack of a very nice bull in the timber the first sunday morning but was not able to track it down to make a shot. I did a get a little sun burned while I was out there...geesh the weather was warm up there. Thanks to all for your tips and suggestions...sorry I couldn't get the job done and post a pic.
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Join the club here is what im eating for the next 11 months
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never been there but i guy I knew drew that tag for archery and road hunted and shot a 350 6x6.......
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95% luck and 5% skill
:hello:
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i agree with you to an extent. A lot of luck has to come into play for a guy to get a nice bull but there is a lot of skill that must also come into play. For example when i hunted the archery season i hunted for 4 days and passed up 8 different elk before shooting the one i did. This is all from simply driving around and calling. If the bull sounded big i would go after him. Some bulls took much longer than others to come in. The one i ended up killing took me 6 hours of tracking and calling until his cows bedded down and he got pissed off enough to come kick my ass. From my observations of hunting this area for the past six years its all about how picky someone wants to be and what their skill level is. About 70% of the hunters i saw were just sitting in tree stands or watching a clearing.
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Right ok then i should say RIFLE hunting is that way
if it was during the rut things would be different
but they didnt care about my calling and all they wanted to do was bed up all day long in the THICKEST hell hole they could find. trust me i went into a couple of them. :-)
but i do agree to disagree with you.
its just a ton of luck during modern.
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i agree during modern it is a ton of luck i should have said during archery season it takes a lot more skill.
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I spent quite a bit of time on the North face of bald mountain and in the thick up at Raven's Roost and the comments were all the same from those that hunted modern deer season up there..."the elk were here during deer season". If calling works so well during bow then why not use it during modern...that's because you'll have evey pumpkin patch of people hunting you down. I agree that modern is more luck than anything but you do need to know where they go to hide and I guess I still have that to learn. Hopefully late deer season will be successful.
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did a little touch up for ya, great bull dude!
nice work....
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o wow that looks much better thanks
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WHile I will agree there is always a little luck involved in hunting and success and no doubt more so with the modern firearm seasons in our state I can't put it at 95% or even close to that. I am not referring to the hunter on this post at all cause I don't now him or what he did or didn't do but preperation for a hunt pushes the need for luck way down. That includes being in shape , talking to bios and past tag holders and scouting extensively. YOu still need lady luck on your side and be willing to pass some critters up to get the big one but to think you have to be lucky to succeed I don't buy into that. Weather on the other hand can screw up the best of hunts , I had it happen this year on a Blues muzzie hunt I was helping on, and preperation can't help that. nwhunter
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but have been getting screwed up by another hunter who apparently knows nothing about hunting.
Man if I had a dollar for everytime that has happened to me..... ticks me off so much when you work your rear off to find that one bull, you are on him, working him, and another hunter busts him before you get your shot. One year in Nemah, SW Washington early archery I had four different bulls in my sights on opening day and all four were scared away by other hunters. One was huge, 7 on one side and non-typical on the other, barely 100 yards off HWY 101!
