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Title: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: 10Key on January 05, 2023, 10:36:30 AM
Stopped in on our way back west on 1/3 to see if they moved in. There were probably a 100 or so concentrated near the hay shed and some others out and about...but not a single antler. Do the bulls not come in with the cows? It sure seems early for them to have dropped antlers already.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Buckjunkie on January 05, 2023, 11:43:14 AM
I’ve seen bulls there into March, so they must have just been out of sight.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Dan-o on January 05, 2023, 01:33:44 PM
I'm sure they are there. 

Probably around the corner and out of sight
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Gentrys on January 05, 2023, 03:57:06 PM
A friend was there last week and sent me pics with bulls.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: 10Key on January 05, 2023, 06:28:31 PM
Thanks, the bulls probably heard my three kids fighting in the truck and then scattered...typical
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: pd on January 05, 2023, 11:31:58 PM
Thanks, the bulls probably heard my three kids fighting in the truck and then scattered...typical

Wait!  What?  Ur kids fight?  That’s weird. Never happened before to me.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: boneaddict on January 06, 2023, 05:18:39 AM
They’re there.  Only about .001% have dropped. Just out of signt
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: elkoholic1 on January 06, 2023, 07:16:15 AM
 I was there 12/31 at 7am the feed truck showed up around 8:30. was a descent amount in there that day with around 25 branch bulls and doz or so spikes..   after feed truck left had 8 more branch bulls show up...
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: huntnfmly on January 06, 2023, 10:20:45 AM
Directions

A Thorpe off I 90 right in Thorpe cemetery road?
Then Joe watt rd? Is that off of Thorpe cemetery road?
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: MADMAX on January 06, 2023, 10:25:40 AM
Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.

Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: trophyhunt on January 06, 2023, 12:09:35 PM
Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.

Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know
Ahh, that's another subject, burning pallets!!  IDIOTS!!   :bash:
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Houndhunter on January 06, 2023, 01:40:20 PM
Wonder what they're feeding them...
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: huntnfmly on January 06, 2023, 02:20:18 PM
Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.

Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know

👍thank you for the direction and heads up on the nails
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: fishngamereaper on January 06, 2023, 02:44:30 PM
Wonder what they're feeding them...

Used to feed them alfalfa. Not sure now...
 Back in the day I would spend my winter's feeding them goofy things. Bulls would grab grass right out of your hand. You could literally pet them.

Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: boneaddict on January 15, 2023, 08:48:34 AM
Alfalfa, likely grown across the road from my house.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Sandberm on January 15, 2023, 09:13:27 AM
Back in 90's and maybe into the early 2000's we used to sell alfalfa to a hay broker that delivered to the feeding stations, 3-string bales. It was a sweet deal for us as we would sell them 4th cutting hay from older stands that had just a hint of grass in it. Being that it had grass in it, it was not desirable by our normal market, export to Japan. Price was equal to or $5/ton more too if I remember right.

Wife and i usually take a late Jan/Feb Sunday drive up to Oak Creek, then have a lunch/dinner in Yakima, hit Cabelas, maybe a thrift store or two. Never been to Joe Watt, so perhaps we will go there this year. Thanks for the info guys.  :tup:
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: boneaddict on January 15, 2023, 09:15:53 AM
Take good binos with ya.  Its not like oak creek
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Sandberm on January 15, 2023, 09:24:21 AM
Take good binos with ya.  Its not like oak creek

Will do, thank you.
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Elk_Guapo on January 23, 2023, 03:07:56 PM
I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: pianoman9701 on January 23, 2023, 03:30:10 PM
I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)

What was a spike doing looking through your binoculars?
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: trophyhunt on January 23, 2023, 03:59:06 PM
 :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: Skyvalhunter on January 23, 2023, 05:04:22 PM
The spike was looking for a male friend
Title: Re: Joe Watt feeding station
Post by: erk444 on January 24, 2023, 06:55:26 AM
I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)

What was a spike doing looking through your binoculars?

 :chuckle: :chuckle: I almost spit out my coffee!
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