Calling the same bobcat again on same day Options

[Okanagan]

I think a young newbie partner and I called the same bobcat twice yesterday, without getting it either time. I have a knack for messing up sure things...

About noon we called in a big light tan bobcat at 32 minutes that I watched for two minutes but my partner only saw briefly behind a screen of brush from his angle. It is a one bobcat area and my tag was used.

It left the biggest bobcat tracks I've ever seen.

I told the young man that he should come back and try to call it before the season closes Feb. 28. He asked, "Why not call it again today since we're here?" Hmmm...

We came back for the last hour of daylight and called another big bobcat, a light tan color like the first one. We set up a quarter mile down the valley from the earlier stand, in the direction the cat had headed, and we used a different sound. At 42 minutes I saw the cat walk rapidly across a gap 8-10 feet wide out 65 yards. It was walking broadside but I think it was leaving.

It a FWIW story. I've gone after a particular bobcat more than once, but never on the same day before.

I'd be curious to hear comments/critique from more experienced bobcat callers.

In the terrain photo below, we called where the valley running down the left side of the picture intersects a cross valley way out there, above and left of center.



This post has been edited by Okanagan: Mar 25 2010, 05:22 PM

[Okanagan]

Update:

Caleb, my young hunting partner and I went back a week later and tried to call that big bobcat, unsucessfully. We made two stands for him, each in the general area we'd called earlier but in much better set-ups. On our first stand Caleb was on a high point with a superb view watching downwind, with a mid-morning sun at his back. I watched upwind. The second stand was similar.

On the first stand we had a coyote run past us 100 yards to one side heading upwind and looking back frequently as if he was running away from something.

We found no fresh tracks of the big bobcat so maybe he doesn't live in a relatively small area like several I've patterned before. Or maybe with the mating season, he was roaming widely. I have him in mind for this coming December.