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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Aug 14, 2015 10:30:17 GMT -5
The Bobcat population is growing in Indiana. How many of you have ever seen a Bobcat in Indiana ? Perhaps in the future IN may have a Bobcat hunting/trapping season like a lot of surrounding states have.
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 14, 2015 13:12:21 GMT -5
Never, but Brown Co is as far south as I go for hunting
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Aug 14, 2015 18:11:55 GMT -5
Camp Atterbury has Bobcats, there's probably a small Bobcat population in parts of Brown County. Does anybody know what the estimated Bobcat population is in Indiana ? It seems like a lot of the data on Indiana Bobcats is from many years ago.
I saw a Bobcat at a state park in Jefferson County, Indiana several years ago. I have seen three Bobcats in western Kentucky.
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Post by greyhair on Aug 14, 2015 22:36:18 GMT -5
Funny you should .mention that - there are most definitely bobcats in Parke County. I know guys that have accidentally trapped them. Also I have seen them personally. Sightings and camera catches are increasing lately.
My wife saw one coming out of a thicket about a week ago next to where one of my trails comes out of the woods. I have some ground that is meadow/brush/thicket and is home to half the rabbits in Indiana I think. I set up a camera - I would love to get some pictures to post.
A barn burned many years ago on that ground and the owners broke up the old foundation and filled a low area with all the broken concrete. It is a real rabbit factory.
I read that bobcats like to run on deer trails, logging trails, and such. Anybody know if that is right?
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Post by duff on Aug 15, 2015 7:42:47 GMT -5
I have seen 2. 1 was under my truck tire less than 1/2 mile from my house.
They are all over indiana. Probably 10 yrs . Ago I know there were multiple caught in Columbus so certainly in brown co too. But they get pics of them in n. Indiana too. I am sure there are more in certain areas but they are spread out nicely across the state
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 15, 2015 8:04:49 GMT -5
I would figure getting farther south would give one abetter the chance at seeing one
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Post by duff on Aug 15, 2015 10:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Aug 15, 2015 11:09:32 GMT -5
Big Oaks NWR has a Bobcat population also. Staff have gotten Trail Cam pictures of Bobcats there. I believe Illinois now allows Bobcat hunting and trapping since the Bobcat population has grown substantially there over the years. Some of those Illinois Bobcats may wander into Indiana as the population continues to grow.
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Post by duff on Aug 15, 2015 12:07:53 GMT -5
Or Indiana's cats wonder over there :-)
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Post by 76chevy on Oct 31, 2015 8:00:44 GMT -5
I have heard that there will very likely be a season in 2017
It will begin as a limited quota and only certain counties open like the otter this year.
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Oct 31, 2015 18:33:06 GMT -5
Very interesting information. |
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Post by coyote6974 on Oct 31, 2015 20:54:56 GMT -5
Seven or eight years ago I was turkey hunting in southern Parke County. I was working a gobbler that suddenly, for no real reason, went silent. I set for about 20 minutes after his last gobble before deciding to walk over to where he'd been to see if I could find where he'd been strutting back and forth. As I stood up, I saw something moving up the side of the next ridge about 80 yards away. By the time I figured out that it wasn't a coyote, or a small deer it had stopped adjacent to a thicket. By this time I had my binoculars on it seeing that it was a bobcat. I'd seen bobcat tracks in a nearby creek bottom over several years before seeing this bobcat. So far, it's the only one I've ever seen in the wild.
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