Fall plans?

[Guy Miner]

Doggone - I dunno if I'm going to have a job when I check back in at work in December. Looks like I'm gone most of the time from August until then! :grin: Well, okay, not "most" of the time, but it's starting to look pretty good:

Aug - Washington bear season opens. Young John and I have decided we need another bear.
Aug - taking my family for a week long fishing trip here in Washington

Sept - Alaska, salmon fishing trip with Dad!
Sept - Opportunity for early elk here in Washington!

Oct - Steelhead opens here in Washington!
Oct - Wyoming for mule deer & pronghorn with Roysclockgun. Too cool. Very likely to draw the tags.

Nov - late whitetail here in Washington with my son.

Man I'm glad I'm senior enough to pull a lot of vacation time...

What do you have going this fall? I'm so pumped about hunting and fishing this fall, I just about can't stand it! :grin:

 

[DrMike]

Moose and black bear opens August 15 and runs through October. Elk opens September 1 and runs through October. Mule deer and white-tailed deer opens for bow and arrow on Sept 1, and for rifle on Sept 10; rifle season runs until November 30. Bighorn sheep opens August 15, thinhorn on August 1, and goat opens August 25. Caribou opens August 15. Cougar opens September 10, though I've never really hunted them. There's always wolf (never closed), coyote (never closed), wolverine (October 15 to January 15), Lynx (November 15-February 15), snowshoe hare (August 1-April 30) and grouse (Blue, Spruce, Sharptail and Ruffed--September 1 through November 15). My problem is not having game to hunt; it is finding time to sneak away. I put in for an LEH goat draw close to home, a grizzly LEH draw and a late season elk draw that runs from December 1 through February 28. I hope to slip away a few days to do some grayling fishing this year. Maybe I can slip over to the Skeena watershed and talk Gerhard into sneaking out for some salmon. In all, a lot of potential for the year. Now, to slip away and tag a spring black bear.

 

[wildgene]

...I generally don't plan on falls...

...usually, they just happen...

 

[Guy Miner]

That they do... :mrgreen:

 

[DrMike]

Guy,

You should have left the pictures! They were great (as always). Consequently, I really miss the opportunities for steelhead, coho and chinook fishing on the coastal waters of British Columbia. Truthfully, I spent many delightful hours fishing while living in the Lower Mainland. At one period, my home was about two hundred yards from a great steelhead stream. Many days, I would complete my study, walk over to the river at 3:30 or 4:00, catch a couple of steelhead, come home to shower and then make hospital rounds or attend to others duties. I do miss such opportunities. Now, such fishing is somewhat more difficult.

 

[CatskillCrawler]

Things are shaping up nicely this year.

NY - Late Sept - Salmon fishing on Lake Ontario before they make their river run - Rochester - Oswego vicinity

Colorado - 17-21 Oct for Elk in Unit #231, SW of Yampa
23-27 Oct for Mule Deer in Unit #27, NW of Kremmling

Maine - 5-9 Nov for WTs and BB, Hartland vicinity

NY - 17-21 Nov for WTs and BB, Otsego Cty

PA - 23-27 Nov for WTs and BB, Beach Lake vicinity

Haven't even looked at the archery and M/L seasons yet but they always fall into place.

 

[PJGunner]

Well, I've booked a cow elk hunt in December. Didn't draw again for elk and antelope in Arizona. Still have to put in for deer so there's some hope there. :roll: I haven't drawn for deer in 6 years. :x
Paul B.

 

[sask boy]

I put in for a mule deer earn a buck drawn and also either sex Moose draw :lol: We have a week of either sex Elk mid September. Then I have a early Moose hunt if I don't get drawn>
Then we have white tail starting in Oct. with the muzzle loader and finishing in late November.

Blessings,
Dan

 

[JD338]

Guy,

Man, I am going to be busy!
July and Aug will be WT deer crop damage hunting (and testing some new Nosler bullets). :mrgreen:
Sept MI Early WT Doe with my daughter
Sept MI Black Bear (if I pull a tag)
Sept WY antelope with my fearless guide Fotis
Oct MI WT bow
Nov MI WT rifle
Dec MI Muzzle loader and Late Doe with my daughter

JD338

 

[SJB358]

I am going to have the early urban archery in Northern Va, then a week or so of the any deer bow season. then Brian and I are off to Idaho for elk/deer/bear/wolf with Bill. After that, back to Va for more deer hunting. Rifle season starts in Oct/Nov for deer, so I will be hunting with Brian down at his place. Might get a trip to Upstate NY for some deer hunting with the family as well. Should be a good Fall. Really looking forward to it.

 

[tecumseh]

I just did pp for out west this year, going to Bimini in the Bahamas in July for some saltwater fishing action and deer and waterfowl hunt around here and maybe go down to Brunswick GA for a deer-hog hunt in Nov or Dec.

 

[Elkman]

Elk for sure,
Roosvelt elk in Western Wa.
Backpack hunt in Idaho

Almost sure,
spike bull in NE, Oregon

Mayby, second chance draw,Wyoming COW

Deer
Archery,out my back door.

 

[Guy Miner]

Sounds like good stuff all, real good stuff!

 

[Guest]

It's all deer, and maybe hogs and coyotes around north Alabama for me this year, as far as I know.

I'm hoping to remember to put in for pref points in WY & MT in another month or so. We'll see. Trying to get set up to draw for pronghorn, muleys, and (eventually) elk.

 

[joelkdouglas]

Nothing big this year for me. I'll likely go to Missouri for rifle season. I think it opens 10 Nov and ends the day before Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving. But there'd be hell to pay at home if I weren't home before Thanksgiving.

I love elk hunting, but there's something fantastic about going back to the area where you grew up. I don't even have family left in rural Missouri, but the woods all feel the same. And elk hunting from here in Louisiana is quite a drive.

 

[big rifle man]

First season Elk in unit 15 Oak Creek Colorado. Whitetails in Maine during the month of November. Catskill crawler, I'm very familiar with unit 231. Hunted adjacent to it in 131. Excellent elk country. Last year there were some big boys running around. Make sure you bring warm and cold weather clothing. First season our first two days were flirting with 70 degrees at noontime. The third day was 16 and a blizzard. Weathers crazy at that altitude.

 

[alaska100]

We have the same problem Dr Mike has. Not enough time. It looks like this year will be only Brown bear, Caribou and Moose. Black bear and wolf are always available. Will take the daughter bird hunting, as that is her favorite and we will throw a line in the water from time to time. Son and daughter will go on a goat hunt, but not to hunt just to help with the horses and to set up and break camp

 

[CatskillCrawler]

First season Elk in unit 15 Oak Creek Colorado. Whitetails in Maine during the month of November. Catskill crawler, I'm very familiar with unit 231. Hunted adjacent to it in 131. Excellent elk country. Last year there were some big boys running around. Make sure you bring warm and cold weather clothing. First season our first two days were flirting with 70 degrees at noontime. The third day was 16 and a blizzard. Weathers crazy at that altitude.

Yeah, had to leave early once so we didn't get locked inside the gate on the road. Not good when they tell you that if you don't leave now you can get your vehicle out after the April melt. :?

 

[SJB358]

We have the same problem Dr Mike has. Not enough time. It looks like this year will be only Brown bear, Caribou and Moose. Black bear and wolf are always available. Will take the daughter bird hunting, as that is her favorite and we will throw a line in the water from time to time. Son and daughter will go on a goat hunt, but not to hunt just to help with the horses and to set up and break camp

I hope you do well buddy! I am thinking you should have a great Fall buddy!

 

[Guest]

Waiting to see if I pull a Cow Tag for Unit 76 in Colorado for the third season. Itching to try the 300 RUM with the 200 AccuBond.

Don