How is late season whitetail hunting? Good, bad, decent? GMU 105/117?

[eddyr]

With Roosevelt elk going extremely tough for me, and with this rain and fog I don't know if it will get better (although should lighten on over the weekend)
I am considering maybe going for a late season whitetail? Have next week off anyway. It's a 6 hour drive for me and will be completely new area. Also never hunted during the rut before. What can I expect? I read the reports and the success rates in those units seem good but I wonder if most of it during the general season? Not looking for anything big. Just something legal so I can have some game meat in the freezer and not just fish.

Also how is CWD in there? A lot of sightings/positive tests or not really?

Thanks for any info!

[Caseknife]

No CWD in those units yet, to my knowledge.  EHD/blue tongue hit the population hard this summer.  Think it will be pretty slim pickings this fall in late WT.  Sorry for the downer info, but that is what I have seen on our property and the surrounding area, not a lot of deer.

[Billy74]

Public is busier late season where i go.  I never see much rut behavior the first week but buck movement ramps up as the late season goes on.  I don’t even think its in full swing by the last day


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[hunter399]

No CWD in those units yet, to my knowledge.  EHD/blue tongue hit the population hard this summer.  Think it will be pretty slim pickings this fall in late WT.  Sorry for the downer info, but that is what I have seen on our property and the surrounding area, not a lot of deer.

CWD has been confirmed last year in 117,on the eastern edge of unit.
117/124 both have it, according to WDFW. As of last year.

[hunter399]

With Roosevelt elk going extremely tough for me, and with this rain and fog I don't know if it will get better (although should lighten on over the weekend)
I am considering maybe going for a late season whitetail? Have next week off anyway. It's a 6 hour drive for me and will be completely new area. Also never hunted during the rut before. What can I expect? I read the reports and the success rates in those units seem good but I wonder if most of it during the general season? Not looking for anything big. Just something legal so I can have some game meat in the freezer and not just fish.

Also how is CWD in there? A lot of sightings/positive tests or not really?

Thanks for any info!

I'm gonna give a decent, not gonna say good or bad.
Cause it just depends where you go. Some areas hit very hard by blue tongue this year.
But that's not everywhere,so I'd say give it a try.

[BrockWeilep]

With Roosevelt elk going extremely tough for me, and with this rain and fog I don't know if it will get better (although should lighten on over the weekend)
I am considering maybe going for a late season whitetail? Have next week off anyway. It's a 6 hour drive for me and will be completely new area. Also never hunted during the rut before. What can I expect? I read the reports and the success rates in those units seem good but I wonder if most of it during the general season? Not looking for anything big. Just something legal so I can have some game meat in the freezer and not just fish.

Also how is CWD in there? A lot of sightings/positive tests or not really?

Thanks for any info!

You’ll run into a lot of predators. Theres some deer in pockets. I don’t spend too much time in those units though, so I don’t know them well.


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[kodiak06]

Unless the deer are rutting earlier their than the places I hunt, you won't be hunting the rut. It'll be pre-rut tactics