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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: mattaylor81 on April 01, 2008, 09:39:45 AM

Title: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: mattaylor81 on April 01, 2008, 09:39:45 AM: I am new to this forum and currently live on Whidbey Island. I was wondering if any of you know of public land opportunities on Whidbey for deer hunting. Any input is greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: Skyvalhunter on April 01, 2008, 11:10:52 AM: Tough call there since there is mostly private land there. I suppose you could find who owns the property and ask for permission. My guess to is they would only want you to hunt archery if you did get permission.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: Snowman on April 01, 2008, 11:26:45 AM: Whidbey Island is in a firearm restricted unit. I have a buddy who goes there every year on private land. He says some of the people will give permission. Just got to knock on doors and ask, that's how he did it.Good luck to ya!
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: Bearhunter on April 01, 2008, 12:20:55 PM: Heard there were some nice bucks down at the south end of the island, around Langley, check into it. Good Luck
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: oneshotkill on April 01, 2008, 04:43:39 PM: I also live on Whidbey Island and about the only public land opportunities that I know are in the Kettle Trails area between Oak Harbor and Coupville.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: irishevox on October 15, 2013, 09:37:14 PM: i think all us whidbey hunters need to get together and scout and work together on these deer
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: Windwalker on October 17, 2013, 10:10:37 AM: Need to verify if any changes to the Trillium Community Forest has been made -
Here is a link to older posts that may help.
Some of the links are dead but a Trillium Community Forest google search turned up quite a bit of info.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,111025.0/topicseen.html (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,111025.0/topicseen.html)
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: seth30 on October 17, 2013, 10:46:48 AM: Hard to hunt here with out private access. Most of the public areas that you could hunt are crawling with people on horseback, walking there dogs, and hugging trees.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: h20hunter on October 17, 2013, 10:47:23 AM: And handing out Obahma stickers!
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: cbond3318 on October 17, 2013, 10:57:10 AM: It has been a few years, but I hunted the Trillium Forest but as mentioned I would make sure no changes have been made. The massive bodied doe in my avatar was a Whidbey Island deer, I was fortunate to be on a small piece of private. Just be careful there are house's lining most areas.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: Ripper on October 17, 2013, 11:29:35 AM: The nice thing about the Trillium Forest is that it has signs up stating that it's open to hunting and they encourage everyone to wear hunter orange. That keeps a lot of the non-hunters out during hunting season.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: irishevox on October 17, 2013, 09:34:19 PM: Quote from: Ripper on October 17, 2013, 11:29:35 AM
The nice thing about the Trillium Forest is that it has signs up stating that it's open to hunting and they encourage everyone to wear hunter orange. That keeps a lot of the non-hunters out during hunting season.

I tired hunting there..... very difficult to find a place to hunt... i didn;'t see anything last year when i went out there.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: The Weazle on October 17, 2013, 09:41:55 PM: Quote from: irishevox on October 17, 2013, 09:34:19 PM
Quote from: Ripper on October 17, 2013, 11:29:35 AM
The nice thing about the Trillium Forest is that it has signs up stating that it's open to hunting and they encourage everyone to wear hunter orange. That keeps a lot of the non-hunters out during hunting season.

I tired hunting there..... very difficult to find a place to hunt... i didn;'t see anything last year when i went out there.

I have hunted there, its pretty nice, lots of ground to cover. Hardest part is figuring out where to set up, and hold still long enough for a deer to come through. There are literally hundreds of deer trails, and sign everywhere, but they are blacktail, and pretty nocturnal, so you know how that goes.
Title: Re: Whidbey Island Deer Hunting????
Post by: irishevox on October 17, 2013, 11:32:29 PM: Quote from: The Weazle on October 17, 2013, 09:41:55 PM
Quote from: irishevox on October 17, 2013, 09:34:19 PM
Quote from: Ripper on October 17, 2013, 11:29:35 AM
The nice thing about the Trillium Forest is that it has signs up stating that it's open to hunting and they encourage everyone to wear hunter orange. That keeps a lot of the non-hunters out during hunting season.

I tired hunting there..... very difficult to find a place to hunt... i didn;'t see anything last year when i went out there.

I have hunted there, its pretty nice, lots of ground to cover. Hardest part is figuring out where to set up, and hold still long enough for a deer to come through. There are literally hundreds of deer trails, and sign everywhere, but they are blacktail, and pretty nocturnal, so you know how that goes.

Yeah... alot of signs and all... i walked alot of the area.... alot of people with dogs.. and all so hard to keep that scent off and hard to find a spot i agree with that... it's better for duck... thats for sure...