Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: WA hunter14 on May 19, 2011, 12:58:44 PM
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Is baiting elk even legal in washington? i know people bait deer successfully can you get the same results with elk?
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Yup legal
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have you ever done it or know anyone who has? i know a great elk spot an ive fingured out where they bed but they feed pretty much all over, im thinking about setting up a bait station an a blind in between the two areas? any thoughts on that?
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Apples seem to be the universal attractant if you can get a few barrels of them. Standard mineral blocks and the like seem to work okay. Oats are not a terrible choice. But apples are always my first choice for most everything.
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Not to threadjack but, does anyone know how much lead time is needed to get elk to the feed area? If I throw out apples and a couple bales of alfalfa 2 days ahead of time, would that be long enough for them to find it?
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Give it a week but check it every other day & replenish as needed.
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I don't personally do it, but forget the oats and apples and just stick out a block of salt. Bowhunters in Idaho have used this trick for years.
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alright thanks for all the info!
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Baiting with anything baled this time of year is a waste of money.
Toss a leaf of alfalfa in the field with my horses, it will still be there in August, or longer.
Why have dehydrated salad when you can have fresh greens?
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Baiting with anything baled this time of year is a waste of money.
Toss a leaf of alfalfa in the field with my horses, it will still be there in August, or longer.
Why have dehydrated salad when you can have fresh greens?
I was planning on doing it the weekend before archery opener
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IMO a salt block works best but it does have draw backs. it will attract everything and it can take deer and elk a while to find it. also once you place a block you pretty much have to keep it up nothing will grow in that spot for some time. like i said just my oppion
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what exactly do you mean by "everything" ?
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all animals need salt Ive had deer elk yotes bears many types of small game and even a few cats at my salt sight. the deer and elk frequent it the most but they all seem to share it. it my be just my area i don't know this is only my second season here in WA.
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Me to, i normally hunt eastern washington. What part of the wet side are you in? im in 652 around orting.
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Where would i get a salt lick, and what brand, how much?
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Any feed store will have them. Last one I bought was $8.00 for 50 lbs. I break them down with a maul. Works great
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I'm in lakewood i have 2 licks in 652 on different areas i got my salt blocks at a feed store in Tacoma and the mineral blocks at cabals. i think i paid 10 or 15 apeace for the salt and 20 for the mineral blocks. i just added the mineral blocks 3 weeks ago. but i will tell you there are alot of hunters on here that have alot more experience then i do.
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The salt will attract almost everything, including hunters for sure. :chuckle:
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do you know of any national forest that would be good elk and or blacktail hunting? in 652 or close by? right now im hunting on small area of private property, its not very ideal.
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Are you hunting with a rifle?
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not for elk no archery but modern for deer.
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Hunt any general season with a rifle in a national forest then see what you think about private ground. ;) Cherish it young jedi, cherish it
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well spoken woodchuck, well spoken
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my dad and i dont know the area hardly at all we are from eastern washington, ive been up forest service road 70 a few times, am i in the right area?
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Nothing on 70. Lots of offroaders only
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well what do you think about the area, this is my last year living in western washington and im just trying to get a elk or blacktail? any advice would be great!
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theres alot of places to hunt on the west side. are you set on hunting gmu 652 on anywhere close ?
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anywhere close, 654, as long as its without about an hour or so?
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Del's in puyallup sells trace mineral salt in a bag (granules). this makes it easier to carry to the spot/spread into the soil. They also sell apple flavored "buck and doe" feed solutions blocks. I think the apple blocks are 15 or so dollars each and the trace salt is around ten bucks.
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alright thanks for the info sneaky
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the elk im hunting bed on the top of a ridgeline and there is a buck that lives about a 1/4 mile away, should i put a bait station inbetween them or two seperate ones?
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Try Buck Jam, or deer cocaine...the elk love it our here!
Elk hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RI-P-e1gQM#ws)
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I dont think u can consistently pull elk in with bait till late when the snow falls and dump out alot of alfalfa
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I don't personally do it, but forget the oats and apples and just stick out a block of salt. Bowhunters in Idaho have used this trick for years.
Ha, even though it's illegal in ID!
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and how many guides in ID do this? :chuckle:
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None, I'm sure....
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I just set out 2 sites with cams. Each had a 50lb bag of wet cob one had a 50lb selenium block and the other a 50lb trace mineral block. They are both between feeding and bedding areas next to water on some heavily used trails. I let ya know how they work in a couple weeks when I check the cams.
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Hunting over Salt licks is illegal in several states, but in many states (Idaho and Utah for sure) sheep men put out tons of salt to keep the sheep herds somewhat in order (not unusual in both those states to go into the back country and run into herds of 3,000 - to 4000 sheep!) I once trailed a herd of elk about 7 miles and they were bee lining straight to a salt lick. Elk love the stuff-just a personal thing, but I'm opposed to baiting of any type for elk or deer. Lots of bow hunters in particular in those 2 states don't put out the blocks themselves, they just find one that the sheepmen have put out and the elk are also using. Not accusing anyone, but guides in both those state have a pretty good idea where the salt licks are in their area.
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I have 6 licks that I put out in my area. I use 50lb bags of SE-30 Sellenium/mineralsalt. The elk do not come into these like bait but it does keep them in the area. If the weather is hot they will hit them regularly. But usually by opening day it cools off and they don't want it as much. They stomp it into the ground and will come back to them each spring.
I don't use a block for 2 reasons. First and foremost it is too easily seen by other hunters and will gain their attention for a place to hunt. Second is a group of elk can move a block a long ways especially if it's on a hill. Like it has been said before a good salt lick will attracted every animal around. You can get some cool pictures if you put a trail camera up.
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What's going to be the best bait to put out Sept. 1 for the archery opener then? I can't get to my elk spot before then
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Bueller? Bueller?
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thought id report on my findings. 3 weeks ago i put out a 50lb trace mineral block and a 50lb selenium block, each had a 50lb bag of wet cob spread around it. the elk at the first site didnt touch the cob but had a bull and a cow come in to lick the selenium block. also had a couple pass by on the trail and not even look in that direction. at the second site i had some cows that ate a little cob but they were digging on the 50lb trace mineral block. i had one cow stay for over an hour and a couple others stay for 1/2 hr. also had a bull come in a lick it and another bull just walked by on the trail. the cows are loving the minerals right now. one mistake i did make was i put the cob around the blocks in a blair witch lookin circle, it mostly just sat there and rotted. if i put cob out again it will be in a feeder. theres my expierence. as august come tho i will be dumpin some apples! :chuckle:
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pics?
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The pic in my avatar is a bull that was licking the trace minerals
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OK guys stop hoggin all the fun. just joking kinda. i have salt and mineral blocks out and they've been set for over a month i also put out 50 lbs of apples out 2 weeks ago and all i got were 3 deer, a doe and fawn they stopped at the salt but didn't touch the apples and the other was a small buck i think and it didn't even stop. other then the deer a got few yotes. what am i doing wrong or have i just not given it enough time
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:dunno: I started getting pics within a couple days of putting them out. I had close to 250 pics of elk but only 1 pic of a deer and about 200 pics of a damn raven. :bash: maybe try a different spot? Maybe the deer just don't like the salt but they should have been chowin on those apples. :dunno:
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I have seen guys in Idaho carry bags of salt and just spray it around.
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our feed store sells redmond rock salt. its a solid natuarl chunk of salt and trace minerals. packing a few into my hunting areas and setting up trail cams.....pics to come!
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Let me say this apples
Work great u need to deploy trailcams and find spot were they are going and coming
I thought they wouldn't go back all the time like deer do they will once they find 50 gallons week is nothing
I also found out the bulls take over a bait pile running deer and others off!!!
Remember baiting elk deer once u start do not stop you'll have fun
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Elk and deer also love salt blocks
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Thing with apples... u have to have a reliable source of getting ALOT and then have a place where you are not killing yourself to get them to where the elk are... a herd of elk will decimate 200 lbs in a week or more. The key if your going to hunt over them is you cant let your spot go dry
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Go to your local feed store and buy blocks of salt. They sell them in fifty pound blocks and little brick size blocks. Or you can buy a fifty pound bag of salt. I use bagged salt. Seems to work just fine. Good luck.
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its great to find a site that everyone shares information. good job gents!
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Trace mineral blocks seem to work well until fall.
