thick, nasty western oregon
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boldasabear
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Welcome to PM Varmintwhisperer!
This board if full of advice, just start reading the posts and you will gain a wealth of knowledge to take out on your next stand.
There is a good forum on electronic calls that can help you out a bunch too. No need for me to repeat stuff from those posts, just pull up a chair and get comfy and start PM101.
Western Oregon can be difficult as the vegetation here can swallow you whole in places. I guess the best tip is to call in areas where you can bring the quarry into an area where you have the advantage. Too often they come in on you and you don't see them. Had this happen a few weeks ago, a yote was hanging out in some teasels and I did not see him till I got the binoculars out and looked around.
Also, you have to have coyotes or cats to call them in. Could be one came in and saw you first or they just were not there. I called a blackberry thicket here recently and had two yotes pop up on me in 60 seconds. Went back a week later and they were gone.
I think it's an odds game, you try to put the odds in your favor by learning how to set up and making 5 stands in a day is better than two.
Can't shoot Bobcats in Oregon (without a trappers license) anyway, but you can call them in for fun if that's what you are trying to do.
What part of Western Oregon you from?
This board if full of advice, just start reading the posts and you will gain a wealth of knowledge to take out on your next stand.
There is a good forum on electronic calls that can help you out a bunch too. No need for me to repeat stuff from those posts, just pull up a chair and get comfy and start PM101.
Western Oregon can be difficult as the vegetation here can swallow you whole in places. I guess the best tip is to call in areas where you can bring the quarry into an area where you have the advantage. Too often they come in on you and you don't see them. Had this happen a few weeks ago, a yote was hanging out in some teasels and I did not see him till I got the binoculars out and looked around.
Also, you have to have coyotes or cats to call them in. Could be one came in and saw you first or they just were not there. I called a blackberry thicket here recently and had two yotes pop up on me in 60 seconds. Went back a week later and they were gone.
I think it's an odds game, you try to put the odds in your favor by learning how to set up and making 5 stands in a day is better than two.
Can't shoot Bobcats in Oregon (without a trappers license) anyway, but you can call them in for fun if that's what you are trying to do.
What part of Western Oregon you from?
Just to clarify: you can get a furbearer hunting permit, and a bobcat card. Lots easier (and cheaper) than getting the trapping license, and you don't have to take the test.
If you're calling the really thick stuff, look for the old skid roads that aren't completely overgrown. They'll travel on those just like we do. You might also look for newer clearcuts that haven't grown back in yet. I do most of my hunting a little farther east, but I've got a few spots in the coast range I'm gonna try this winter, just to see how I do. There's lots of bobcats and bears in the thick stuff. It's just a matter of getting them to show themselves.
Good luck,
-dan
If you're calling the really thick stuff, look for the old skid roads that aren't completely overgrown. They'll travel on those just like we do. You might also look for newer clearcuts that haven't grown back in yet. I do most of my hunting a little farther east, but I've got a few spots in the coast range I'm gonna try this winter, just to see how I do. There's lots of bobcats and bears in the thick stuff. It's just a matter of getting them to show themselves.
Good luck,
-dan
Dogger
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I'm from western Oregon at the base of the Coast range mountains, and have had some good hunts here. I usually set up on the edge of the clear cut areas. They seem to come out of the forest and through the stumps and weeds to the e. calls. I use a decoy too. I have a furbearers hunting license for twenty some dollars and that allows me 15 Bobcats for the season.(Dec 1st-Feb 28th). I can use a rifle with this license, and can harvest as many as I can find(Ya, right)but on the East side of the state you can only harvest 5 per year. I need to see one first! There are lots of signs around. I hunt with my son, and have had great fun just been out there.
boldasabear
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Dan, thanks for the clarification here. I guess this info is in another OF&W Game Perspectus that I have been unable to get my hands on. Guess I could just check their website....duh...thanks for the info, saw a bobby down the george recently I have wanted to call.
M Shaffer
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Glad to see another Oregonian on the board! Welcome! I did not know that about the bobcat license. I don't think I'll get me one though since I've never seen any sign over here. I have jack rabbits though /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
We need more Central Oregonians on the board!
Matt
We need more Central Oregonians on the board!
Matt
Matt,
You're gonna call in one of those beautiful eastern bobcats one of these days and you'll just have to sit there and look at it. Then you'll go out and buy the furbuyer license and bobcat card so it doesn't happen again. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif There's plenty of cats over that way. You just gotta look in the right spots.
The furbearer hunting license costs $12.50, and the bobcat card costs $11.50. For eastern Oregon, you're allowed one card, which lets you tag 5 cats. Western Oregon cards are good for 15 cats, and you can buy as many cards as you want. However, you have to choose east or west, you can't buy both in the same season.
-dan
[Edited license prices. - Dan]
You're gonna call in one of those beautiful eastern bobcats one of these days and you'll just have to sit there and look at it. Then you'll go out and buy the furbuyer license and bobcat card so it doesn't happen again. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif There's plenty of cats over that way. You just gotta look in the right spots.
The furbearer hunting license costs $12.50, and the bobcat card costs $11.50. For eastern Oregon, you're allowed one card, which lets you tag 5 cats. Western Oregon cards are good for 15 cats, and you can buy as many cards as you want. However, you have to choose east or west, you can't buy both in the same season.
-dan
[Edited license prices. - Dan]
Krustyklimber
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Derek,
We have the same problems with thick brush here as you do in Oregon.
You need to get yourself over to Matt's neighborhood, I used to get down there to Smith Rocks to go rockclimbing and I know they got tons of yotes there! There the ones who taught me how to sing on the caller. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif (you gotta know what they sound like before you can sound like one too)
Hey Dan, do you know what it'd cost a ferriner like me from Washington to hunt dogs and cats in eastern Ore.?
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
We have the same problems with thick brush here as you do in Oregon.
You need to get yourself over to Matt's neighborhood, I used to get down there to Smith Rocks to go rockclimbing and I know they got tons of yotes there! There the ones who taught me how to sing on the caller. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif (you gotta know what they sound like before you can sound like one too)
Hey Dan, do you know what it'd cost a ferriner like me from Washington to hunt dogs and cats in eastern Ore.?
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Hey Jeff,
If you just want to hunt coyotes, you can get a general nonresident hunting license for $58.50. But, if you want to hunt bobcats, it looks like you have to get a full-fledged nonresident furtaker's license for $176.50. I'm not sure, but I would imagine you'd have to take the trapping test in order to get that. (That test is a one-time thing though). I'm just looking at the front of the Furbearer regulations pamphlet, and there's no provision for a non-resident furbearer hunting license. You'd then have to get the bobcat record card as well.
So...it would be pretty expensive, and a hassle as well. If you want to talk to someone at ODF&W, you can call (503) 872-5275.
-dan
If you just want to hunt coyotes, you can get a general nonresident hunting license for $58.50. But, if you want to hunt bobcats, it looks like you have to get a full-fledged nonresident furtaker's license for $176.50. I'm not sure, but I would imagine you'd have to take the trapping test in order to get that. (That test is a one-time thing though). I'm just looking at the front of the Furbearer regulations pamphlet, and there's no provision for a non-resident furbearer hunting license. You'd then have to get the bobcat record card as well.
So...it would be pretty expensive, and a hassle as well. If you want to talk to someone at ODF&W, you can call (503) 872-5275.
-dan
Krustyklimber
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Dan,
Thanks man, that is helpful, but bad news for me.
No way am I gonna pay $176 to hunt cats, but the $58 seems reasonable especially since I have noplace in the world I feel more confident about being able to call in yodeldogs then Terrabonne, Ore.
I know they have free camping at the Grasslands/Skull Hollow and the area right around it is open to hunting, and it's crawlin' with coyotes.
Do your licenses run from Jan. to Jan. or are they like here and run from Mar. to Mar.? If it's January I'll be down in about a month, if not I will wait 'til next year.
Thanks again,
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Thanks man, that is helpful, but bad news for me.
No way am I gonna pay $176 to hunt cats, but the $58 seems reasonable especially since I have noplace in the world I feel more confident about being able to call in yodeldogs then Terrabonne, Ore.
I know they have free camping at the Grasslands/Skull Hollow and the area right around it is open to hunting, and it's crawlin' with coyotes.
Do your licenses run from Jan. to Jan. or are they like here and run from Mar. to Mar.? If it's January I'll be down in about a month, if not I will wait 'til next year.
Thanks again,
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Jeff,
The furbearer licenses are good from July 1 through June 30. The regular licenses are good from Jan 1 through Dec 31.
You might give that number a call and ask them, just to make sure I've got it right. I was just going off the info on the cover of the furbearer regs, and it might not be comprehensive.
Good luck,
-dan
The furbearer licenses are good from July 1 through June 30. The regular licenses are good from Jan 1 through Dec 31.
You might give that number a call and ask them, just to make sure I've got it right. I was just going off the info on the cover of the furbearer regs, and it might not be comprehensive.
Good luck,
-dan
Krustyklimber
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Dan,
You've done a perfect job of saving me a long distance phone call.
That is a good enough answer for me.
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
You've done a perfect job of saving me a long distance phone call.
That is a good enough answer for me.
Jeff /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif