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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: halfpipe88 on January 24, 2011, 08:03:39 AM

Title: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: halfpipe88 on January 24, 2011, 08:03:39 AM: Just wondering if anybody has seen/harvested a bobcat in the columbia basin. I'd sure love to come across one myself!
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Post by: Bofire on January 24, 2011, 08:40:02 AM: :)Yep!
Carl
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Post by: Maverick on January 24, 2011, 08:47:21 AM: yeah there's a few around
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Post by: BIGINNER on January 24, 2011, 08:48:49 AM: well...... where are they???????

:chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: 400out on January 24, 2011, 08:49:11 AM: Hard to find but they are here ;)
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 24, 2011, 09:00:20 AM: I'm guessing the coulees, swamps, river, beaver ponds if they're are any down thataway. No reason for them not to be there.
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Post by: E-Town Hunter on January 24, 2011, 09:16:31 AM: NOPE....no bobies here. Don't waste your time looking for them. ;)
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: halfpipe88 on January 24, 2011, 09:32:20 AM: I heard of one guy trapping one out of season and letting it go, but that was like 15 years ago. Has anyone got one? By calling it? At night?
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: Bofire on January 24, 2011, 10:22:24 AM: :)I got one with my shotgun while pheasant hunting. Seen many. Potholes area, alojng where crab creek comes into Moses Lake.
nearer to Vantage. anywhere there is water and brush.
Carl
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Post by: lumpyd on January 24, 2011, 05:34:23 PM: Quote from: E-Town Hunter on January 24, 2011, 09:16:31 AM
NOPE....no bobies here. Don't waste your time looking for them. ;)
:chuckle:
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Post by: 509er on January 24, 2011, 05:36:31 PM: Nope :rolleyes:
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Post by: yelp on January 24, 2011, 05:41:23 PM: Never.. :)
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 02:48:38 PM: This is what they look like. :tup:
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Post by: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 02:50:29 PM: IS A BOBCAT A K9? :dunno:

:yike: :bdid:
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 02:56:53 PM: Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 02:50:29 PM
IS A BOBCAT A K9? :dunno:

:yike: :bdid:

Negative. It's a cat.
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Post by: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 03:32:55 PM: WHAAAAAAAAT??? :yike: :P NO WAY!!
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 04:20:58 PM: Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 03:32:55 PM
WHAAAAAAAAT??? :yike: :P NO WAY!!

I guess I'm not following your question.... :dunno: :dunno:
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Post by: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 04:22:45 PM: Quote from: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 04:20:58 PM
Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 03:32:55 PM
WHAAAAAAAAT??? :yike: :P NO WAY!!

I guess I'm not following your question.... :dunno: :dunno:

LOL. I'M JUST SCREWING AROUND... :hello:
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: lumpyd on January 25, 2011, 06:56:31 PM: Quote from: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 02:48:38 PM
This is what they look like. :tup:

Ours are in sagebrush....
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: couesbitten on January 25, 2011, 07:13:08 PM: Found a den with five kittens about 15 years ago. I'm sure that there are still bobbies in there, but I haven't bothered to look. Buddy of mine called one in last year while coyote hunting, didn't realize it until he stood up to leave and spooked it off.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 08:16:30 PM: Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 04:22:45 PM
Quote from: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 04:20:58 PM
Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 03:32:55 PM
WHAAAAAAAAT??? :yike: :P NO WAY!!

I guess I'm not following your question.... :dunno: :dunno:

LOL. I'M JUST SCREWING AROUND... :hello:

Watch it, or I'll make you watch Obumbles speach... :chuckle:
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Post by: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 08:18:22 PM: please NOOOO!!! oh,.. isn't it over already? lol funy my brother in law just asked me if a coyote is a cat or a dog, lol and he wasn't screwing around.. :chuckle: :bash: :chuckle:
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Post by: ribka on January 25, 2011, 08:21:49 PM: I kicked one up hunting the LT last day of bird season. I was shooting 8's so didn't even bother.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on January 25, 2011, 08:30:10 PM: Quote from: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 08:18:22 PM
please NOOOO!!! oh,.. isn't it over already? lol funy my brother in law just asked me if a coyote is a cat or a dog, lol and he wasn't screwing around.. :chuckle: :bash: :chuckle:

Take him out and show him. Gotta learn some time.
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: BIGINNER on January 25, 2011, 08:37:36 PM: someday i will, hard to take anyone hunting when your whole family is anti-gun....

but on a brighter not my brothers are gonna be taking hunters ed this spring with my wife :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: halfpipe88 on January 26, 2011, 09:38:09 AM: I've done a lot of coyote hunting and never seen one, but it seems like they come in slower and stealthy. If you're calling for bobcats do you have to stay at a stand longer? how long usually?
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Post by: C-Money on January 26, 2011, 09:48:28 AM: ZERO bobcats in the basin!
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Post by: Maverick on January 29, 2011, 11:39:47 AM: my buddy missed one just outside of burbank and another guy saw one in the boise trees. There are a few around. They're smart. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. That bobcat mount, where was that shot?
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Post by: shoot-em-dead on January 29, 2011, 11:50:42 AM: Quote from: Maverick on January 29, 2011, 11:39:47 AM
my buddy missed one just outside of burbank and another guy saw one in the boise trees. There are a few around. They're smart. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. That bobcat mount, where was that shot?

both lungs
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Post by: Maverick on January 29, 2011, 11:57:57 AM: haha. I wasn't asking for your honey hole. Just what area.
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Post by: KimberRich on February 18, 2011, 10:28:11 AM: I've seen some tracks but never an actual bobcat.. I'm sure they're there. Just sneaky!
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Post by: Jerry malbeck on February 21, 2011, 03:21:45 PM: I have called in two since 1998 on the east side , That was the ones i saw at least :chuckle:
The two were at least 100 miles apart .
seen sign all over the basin over the years , not a lot of them , but they are not a thin as you might think .
Call at night along the river and lower eastside canals ( pot holes) shores of lakes
water and rocky coolies youll see a lot more .
Had one killing baby goats here a couple of years ago , BIG male . still looking for his girl friend , doubt ill ever see her eye to eye .
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: KimberRich on March 02, 2011, 10:52:14 AM: Is Blewett Pass in the Columbia basin?

Saw a Bobcat on the side of the road on top Blewett a couple weeks back. First one I've ever seen in the woods.
Title: Re: Bobcats in the columbia basin?
Post by: Bofire on March 02, 2011, 05:11:37 PM: :)All the Bobs moved to Republic, Malbeck killed all the coyotes. You need to hunt Tricities or Oregon. :)
Carl
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Post by: hoyt2002 on March 02, 2011, 05:33:21 PM: I've heard of them around the burbank area. About 3 years ago there was a cougar outside Finley. no one has seen it in awhile. The one thing we never thought we would see around here was a wolverine. It was killed by a truck in front of the kerley chemical plant about 10 years ago.
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Post by: Special T on March 02, 2011, 05:46:18 PM: I think someone brought one into to the Warden coyote derby 4 years ago..
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Post by: TheChad23 on March 03, 2011, 11:25:13 AM: Seen one close to town in Othello and my brother saw one by a road in Kahlotus close to town. His was in 2011 and i saw mine in 2010. None of them were in spots to be able to shoot at them.
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Post by: Maverick on March 03, 2011, 11:47:21 AM: yeah I heard of the cougar and wolverine in finley. Heard people were seeing a cougar by chemical drive last august. By the overpass near the fair grounds. Burbank had a cougar running around the park and out at tidewater. They're around. I've also heard many people talk about them out at the juniper forest ponds. Heard people killed 2 toms, and a female out there. So crazy. I'd love to see more bobcats around. If only they could spread like the fox are!