Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: dannysdaddy on March 19, 2011, 08:24:27 PM
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this year will be my first year hunting wa. im looking to stay around the burlington/seedro wooley areas. any advice on where to start scouting would be appreciated. I DONT WANT YOUR HONEY HOLES!!! im used to mule deer and rockey mtn elk in nevada and idaho so this is completely foreign to me. thanks in advance.....
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Anywhere out towards the pass essentially, you have a lot of nice area up there :hello:
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Anywhere out towards the pass essentially, you have a lot of nice area up there :hello:
hows the access up there. can i take a quad or am I walking? dont want to waste time loading it if its not useable there....
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Pretty sure you would be walking behind a lot of the gates in that area unless you go to Walker Valley ORV Park, fun place, and has been known to carry a few critters.
Heres a map
http://www.nwjeepn.com/Maps/walkerValley.pdf (http://www.nwjeepn.com/Maps/walkerValley.pdf)
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i used to take my jeep up to walker valley but i didnt think you could shoot at the park.
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Go to baker lake area and hike the trails, or go cross country bush wacking. You will either see a bear, cougar, or deer. Why not hunt east side?
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Boss will tell you where to avoid..... :chuckle:
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Boss will tell you where to avoid..... :chuckle:
Avoid what Campmeat?
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Go to baker lake area and hike the trails, or go cross country bush wacking. You will either see a bear, cougar, or deer. Why not hunt east side?
my wife will be in nevada during season and i have a 3 year old and a 9 month old so finding a sitter for the weekend is a lot easier than for a week or two. next year i will probably be out that way since its closer to what im used to and like to hunt.
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Boss will tell you where to avoid..... :chuckle:
Avoid what Campmeat?
Where all the animals are at.....
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It wont be long and they will be right beside you, "saying dad what about those deer over there" that was my 11yr old daughter last year schooling me her first year hunting. :DOH:
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tell ya what i cant wait for those days. my fondest memories growing up were hunting with my old man and my brother.
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Throw the family in the rig and go for a drive. Get to know the area. Note some of the places you want to explore further and come back when you have some you time.
Get to know our local B.T.s'. Compared to Muleys they are geniuses with multiple PHD's in deception and evasion.
Lots of great places to visit.
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I am not familiar with that location but, I can tell you what I did when I moved from the east side to the west side. I ask the people where I worked about hunting locations and got the "out in the woods" answer. I learned where the public access was available, studied maps, talked to the local sporting goods stores. We then went for drives watching the banks for trails and tracks. Black tail are different than white tail or mule deer. The young spikes and two points are dumber than either, the big old bucks are hard to come by, in part because so many get taken the first year or two that there are not many old bucks, and they have learned the ropes. The biggest obstacle is the terrain and brush. Hunt slow, work the edges of clear cuts, with in 200 yards. the best black tail hunter I know, works the scrape lines. Find where bucks scrap their horns. They will be in a line. He sites as long as possible then moves to the next spot and sets. He hunts the big timber. My wife hunts very slow, walking old grown over skid roads, she has taken more and bigger blacktail than I have. Get good rain gear and figure on hunting in the rain, hard rain.. The deer move or stand up and shake off every hour or so in the rain. If you can find a spot where you can watch a hillside you will see them shake off. Just after a rain the deer become very mobile. The year we moved to the west side my wife and I both got a buck and could have shot more. The less than helpfull coworkers didn't get a deer. We moved to the west side Sept. 2nd and had learned what we needed by the end of October. The next year I took a deer and a bear.
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I don't know the area at all but what I would do is get a good map and start driving around and get a lay of the land. Roads and such. I know there is a ton of area around there so it shouldn't be hard to find a spot if you do your homework.
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Yeah no matter where you live here every hunter will give you the "in the woods" answer on where to go. Typically I find there to be a lot less hunting pressure behind gated roads where you can't drive anything (walk in only). With the below information thats about as much help as I can give you before an angry mob comes after me with torches and pitchforks
Check this website out it gives a few hints on where you might go:
http://www.huntwashingtonstate.com/HWS/400_series.htm (http://www.huntwashingtonstate.com/HWS/400_series.htm)
Find your local area by looking at the GoHunt feature on the WDFW's website.. This should keep you entertained for awhile:
http://wdfw.wa.gov/mapping/gohunt/index.html (http://wdfw.wa.gov/mapping/gohunt/index.html)
