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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: bearpaw on February 17, 2014, 01:52:45 AM

Title: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: bearpaw on February 17, 2014, 01:52:45 AM: See the updated list of GMU's here: http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/cougar/ (http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/cougar/)
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: stevemiller on February 17, 2014, 02:05:04 AM: You are the man Bearpaw. :tup:
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: hunter399 on February 17, 2014, 10:28:42 PM: Thanks for posting,i think at least half of the harvest for gmu 117 were due to livestock attack.Still have a tag to fill might go to 121or124 now.
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM: :bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on February 20, 2014, 01:07:39 PM: I hiked 3 hours a couple days looking for a fresh track in the snow but come up with nothing ...I still can not move that well after that hike :chuckle:
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 01:20:20 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
:bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.

I have put on 48 miles looking for a cat this year. :'(
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: nacheshunter on February 20, 2014, 01:30:51 PM: Quote from: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 01:20:20 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
:bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.

I have put on 48 miles looking for a cat this year. :'(

Thats nothing. I have put upward of 100 miles on mine investigating cougar kills and territories. I know where four different cats are at but its about right place right time. Three of those cats are in closed gmu's :bash:
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: JLS on February 20, 2014, 01:34:24 PM: Quote from: nacheshunter on February 20, 2014, 01:30:51 PM
Quote from: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 01:20:20 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
:bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.

I have put on 48 miles looking for a cat this year. :'(

Thats nothing. I have put upward of 100 miles on mine investigating cougar kills and territories. I know where four different cats are at but its about right place right time. Three of those cats are in closed gmu's :bash:

Have you tried calling them, fawn in distress?
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 02:50:23 PM: Quote from: JLS on February 20, 2014, 01:34:24 PM
Quote from: nacheshunter on February 20, 2014, 01:30:51 PM
Quote from: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 01:20:20 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
:bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.

I have put on 48 miles looking for a cat this year. :'(

Thats nothing. I have put upward of 100 miles on mine investigating cougar kills and territories. I know where four different cats are at but its about right place right time. Three of those cats are in closed gmu's :bash:

Have you tried calling them, fawn in distress?

I know a guy who has killed three by walking their tracks. :tup:
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 03:07:12 PM: Quote from: nacheshunter on February 20, 2014, 01:30:51 PM
Quote from: Jonathan_S on February 20, 2014, 01:20:20 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on February 20, 2014, 01:05:17 PM
:bumpin: You guys can still get out boot hunting for cougar in most units.

I have put on 48 miles looking for a cat this year. :'(

Thats nothing. I have put upward of 100 miles on mine investigating cougar kills and territories. I know where four different cats are at but its about right place right time. Three of those cats are in closed gmu's :bash:

Thanks :chuckle:

I would be a fool to put on 100 miles when I already know the specific small areas that 3 mature cats are living :dunno:

Most of my time has been spent calling and watching kill areas.
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: BNAElkhntr on February 20, 2014, 03:23:25 PM: Please Some one go Kill The Cougars in the Bethel 360 unit one hangs around the Little Rattlesnake By the old Ranger Station Hanging Tree Cmpgnd and ranges up to the Carmack Canyon I just can't get over there to get it
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: cougarbart on February 20, 2014, 03:41:35 PM: and to you guys hunting them on foot! I honestly think your chances of killing one is twice as likely as killing a wolf! that's how hard wolves are!
Title: Re: GMU's still open for cougar
Post by: 7t9cobra on February 21, 2014, 09:26:30 PM: A couple weekends ago when we had some overnight powder. I woke up saturday morning, put my snow camo on and went for a drive. First gravel road I drove down I found a real fresh set of bobcat tracks 1/2 mile in. I drive another 1/2 mile and come across a somewhat fresh set of small cougar tracks. I followed it for a ways then set up the fox pro. I didnt call anything in that I know of. By the time I was at the truck, the snow was almost gone. It was disappearing fast so I went up the mountain for another drive. 3 miles on the high road and I came across a decently fresh set of large cougar tracks. Real large. I measured by using my hand and figure it was a 36-38" stride and the prints were pretty dang big. There was hardly any snow off the road so I couldn't follow the tracks very far. Its path was angling downhill so I walked down and set my foxpro down at a creek bottom and sat against a tree uphill. Never saw anything. It was my first time specifically looking for cats, so I was extemely surprised to find three sets of cat, only two sets of coyote and ONE deer. Tell me we dont have a predator problem :bash: