Priest Lake WMA

[SupaRice]

Anyone on here ever hunted (deer) the WMA at Priest Lake?

 

What was your experience?

 

The website only says that it's near Poole Knobs, but doesn't outlay the area. Or at least I'm not finding it.

[SupaRice]

Ok... well doh.... after searching for an hour and then posting this I immediately came across the following after posting:

http://www.tn.gov/twra/gis/wmapdf/PercyPriest_13_web.pdf

 

 

But still, has anyone hunted this? What was your experience?

 

How do you stake a claim to a spot and are those islands covered also?

[monkeylizard]

You may know this, but just to be clear, Unit 1 (green striped on the map) allows muzzleloader a few days in November. The rest of the season is archery only. Unit 2 (green on the map including the islands) uses the regular season dates, but is shotgun/archery/muzzloader only. Centerfire is never allowed at Priest Lake WMA.

[toby1304]

I believe unit one is closed to hunting on Fri, Sat and Sunday.

[SupaRice]

How do you go about staking a spot? First come, first served?

[monkeylizard]

I believe unit one is closed to hunting on Fri, Sat and Sunday.

 

Yep.

 

You can find out the current schedules/regs on page 58 of the TWRA hunting guide. http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/huntguide.pdf

[bersaguy]

Back many moons ago I and a buddy hunted the islands every year with muzzleloaders and were very successful and bagged a lot of deer over the years. Have not hunted them in years but my buddy and his son still hunt them and both will normally  bag a deer. Be prepared to get your boat covered in red mud because there is no way to prevent it. We used an aluminum duck boat with no carpet to get to and from the islands. Good luck and good hunting and be careful because those Islands are not all the big and there may be other hunters on  them. We would always circle the islands to see if there was any other boats docked on the islands. If there is make sure you wear plenty of orange. There are some good trees on them to use self climbing stands.............. :up: :up:

[JWC]

I've killed a bunch of deer over there. I usually hunt up above Fate Sanders. Used to hunt it a lot. Just kind of a pain messing with a boat but I prefer places that are hard to get to by land. Really not very fun hunting when it's cold and you have to go by boat. Or it's super foggy and it takes 2 hours to get where you want to go.


I killed this one over there opening day year before last:

[raildog]

I have hunted near pools nob make sure you are in the right place for what you are doing it is kinda confusing.This year i hunted the other side out of of 840 twice to windy frist day then two guys walked under my stand the second time it is what it is