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Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« on: June 17, 2009, 02:03:08 PM »
Alright, you thunderchicken killers, we've talked about shotguns, and we've talked about pistols.
Let's talk about WHERE...

Good grouse spots east and west. (I don't ask you to give up your favorite honey holes...only I do that, in print, in the pages of Northwest Sportsman magazine and formerly in the now-defunct Fishing & Hunting News...yes, I must be deranged!)

Without getting "too" specific...where would you guys start looking?

Up the Little Naches in Yakima County?
Up around Manastash Lake in Kittitas County?
Teanaway?
The upper Colockum?
North of Leavenworth?
On the ridges overlooking Lake Chelan?
Okanogan County south of the Methow?
North of the Methow?
Twisp River?
West or east of Oroville??
Up around Curlew?
The Little Pend Oreilles?
Lewis and northern Skamania counties?
The Coast?
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 02:05:35 PM »
I've done a majority of my grouse hunting while scouting deer up around Springdale.  We usually do pretty good up there. 




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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 02:13:17 PM »
capital forest











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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 02:29:20 PM »
Yea Springdale
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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 03:00:19 PM »
Looking over your list I'd say yes all those places would be worth a look.

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 03:19:54 PM »
pierce county loaded with them...

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 04:02:10 PM »
 >:( Yeah I took a friend grouse hunting back in the day,King County, he worked with you at FHN and you published a map of that spot :bash: But by gones are gone by,  nice list, I've have better times east of the mountains. If I can find a stand of poplar, I usually find birds. West of the hills I'm just prospecting, I  can't seem to narrow down their favorite cover! Any ideas?
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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 04:08:35 PM »
I'm not saying.......just in case I want to go kill some birds again one of these years.  ;)

Although I do have most of your maps from F&H News. :)
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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2009, 04:12:24 PM »
In the trees up in the forest on that one special ridge line on my secret little logging road :hello:

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2009, 04:17:28 PM »
lotta trees and a road with grass on it ...

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2009, 04:58:53 PM »
I know where they are, it's just why are they there, as far as predicting them. One tried and true method is to go fishing, then I'll see them all around me. When I take the dog and gun, the fish are rising!

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2009, 05:05:27 PM »
Theres good grouse hunting in ..........Washington.... :bash:

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2009, 06:29:03 PM »
>:( Yeah I took a friend grouse hunting back in the day,King County, he worked with you at FHN and you published a map of that spot :bash: But by gones are gone by,  nice list, I've have better times east of the mountains. If I can find a stand of poplar, I usually find birds. West of the hills I'm just prospecting, I  can't seem to narrow down their favorite cover! Any ideas?


Old Boat...who are we talking about?
I published maps of places I hunt, not merely maps of places somebody told me about.

Just over 2 1/2 months remaining until what flies dies.   :IBCOOL:

Already salivating!  The opener is on a Tuesday and I ain't going to work that morning!

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2009, 07:39:50 PM »
Well its not real important, but I guess I should have said FHN published a map of the area!

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2009, 04:34:11 AM »
Well its not real important, but I guess I should have said FHN published a map of the area!

Well, that's what F&H News...and other opportunity-oriented publications ... are supposed to do.  :P

It's why people bought the magazine. They expected that.

Anytime I did a map, that was "my" hunting spot I was giving up. Sort of "sharing the wealth" so to speak. I believe over the past four or five years, I gave up 15-18 good grouse hunting spots, and over the years I wrote on the staff as WA editor, I did a hell of a lot more such maps.

I'm doing two more grouse maps in Northwest Sportsman this year...one in the July and one in the August edition. One east, one west. 
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence

 


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