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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: SkookumHntr on March 25, 2008, 05:21:37 PM

Title: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: SkookumHntr on March 25, 2008, 05:21:37 PM: ---Anybody have any pointers on this hunt. My Buddy at work drew this permit and I will be hunting with him but I have never hunted the unit.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: billythekidrock on March 25, 2008, 05:26:38 PM: Hunt it in the fall. :o

It is a tough unit to hunt in the spring. I was drawn for it last year and again this year. It is a pretty flat unit with lots of swamps and a ton of water. There is always active logging, brushpicking and salvage operations. I have been locked behind green dot gates twice in this unit. Once last spring and once this winter.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: bearmanric on March 25, 2008, 06:40:47 PM: is there places to camp. i know promiseland park is closed. Rick
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: billythekidrock on March 25, 2008, 06:45:01 PM: No camping areas Rick. But with the permit you will be able to stay overnight. Last year we took up a trailer for a couple 3 dayers and I slept in my truck for a few overnighters as well. Since they own the land and the park you would think that they would open it.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: actionshooter on March 26, 2008, 08:49:59 AM: Quote from: billythekidrock on March 25, 2008, 06:45:01 PM
No camping areas Rick. But with the permit you will be able to stay overnight. Last year we took up a trailer for a couple 3 dayers and I slept in my truck for a few overnighters as well. Since they own the land and the park you would think that they would open it.
Good point billy, I didn't know they owned the park, do they ever open it anymore, I know there were problems with vandelism
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: billythekidrock on March 26, 2008, 04:42:57 PM: Yea, I see it open in the summer. I have no idea how it works, if it is first come first served or what.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: bearmanric on March 26, 2008, 07:07:42 PM: are we able to hunt the other side of 101. if so might camp on river. Rick
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: billythekidrock on March 26, 2008, 07:37:04 PM: Quote from: bearmanric on March 26, 2008, 07:07:42 PM
are we able to hunt the other side of 101. if so might camp on river. Rick

Nope. Only Rayonier lands in GMU 642, West of 101.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: bearmanric on March 26, 2008, 08:21:33 PM: just wondered becauce the hound hunter's ran that side to. thank's Rick
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: bowhunterty on March 26, 2008, 08:53:25 PM: Promiseland is first come. Use to camp there back when I elk hunted there. They have a sign posted by the bathroom. Stop at the gate and walk in and check. I'm with Billy about spring hunting here. Its thick. Ihunted quite a bit it last year and never saw a bear. Found only one area with fresh peelings. Good luck guys think I will stick with the high country in the fall.
Title: Re: Copalis Spring Bear
Post by: bearmanric on March 26, 2008, 09:15:55 PM: i'll be hunting it. hunted it quite abit in the 80's and off and on sense. i'll put my time in that's what i like to do is call spring time can be good. this fall i'll consentrate on calling cougar's. bear are to easy not that easy but every where were i hunt. Rick