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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: mainer78 on October 19, 2011, 07:57:00 PM

Title: Willapa Hills
Post by: mainer78 on October 19, 2011, 07:57:00 PM: Anyone have any luck in this area?
Title: Re: Willapa Hills
Post by: buckhorn2 on October 19, 2011, 08:01:55 PM: All the gates are locked into forks creek and trap creek.
Title: Re: Willapa Hills
Post by: mainer78 on October 19, 2011, 08:15:57 PM: I was thinking more out towards wilson creek.
Title: Re: Willapa Hills
Post by: sirmissalot on October 20, 2011, 01:23:54 PM: Last we year we were in there scouting for archery season and ran into a gentleman cutting firewood, he was a weyerhouser employee and said there are new rules there now, that all the gates will be locked but employees will have keys to get in. Is that true? I look for closed gates to hunt behind but I am not going to pedal or hike way behind a gate only to have weyco employees driving around me... so we found else elsewhere. Just never heard if that was really the case and if its for all seasons?
Title: Re: Willapa Hills
Post by: mainer78 on October 21, 2011, 09:37:00 AM: Well my father in law lives there and said the gates are open. But he doesnt hunt so no info from him. Ill be down there hunting deer this weekend and doing some scouting. I know last year alot of the gates were open.
Title: Re: Willapa Hills
Post by: mrgoodwrench on October 21, 2011, 05:51:07 PM: I know the Weyco guys can drive in around PeEll and hunt Ryderwood when the gates are locked. I think it's more a tree farm boundary thing than GMU. Not sure on the particulars, but I know guys said it was a waste to ride bikes way into the Ryderwood unit and have the employees driving....but really when you can drive in you are mainly just going to road hunt.....then again, most guys who walk or ride bikes in a gated road only road hunt too. If you walk in and actually hunt in the brush the road hunters won't ruin the hunt.