Sauvie Island Wildlife Area Game Bird Reservation Summaries

The table below shows the number of first choice applicants for each hunt period. You can use the number of first choice applicants from last year and prior hunt periods this year to look at your odds of getting a reservation.  Here are some points to consider:

• Hunt units that have more first-choice applicants than permits available will never be drawn as anything other than as first-choice.
• If there are fewer first-choice applicants than permits, the process restarts for second-choice hunt applicants and so on. If you want a reservation for a certain day, choose a unit for your second or third-choice that is not likely to get more first choice applicants than permits available. For example, your chances of drawing the Johnson unit on a weekend are very low. If you put it as your first choice, consider putting a unit that does not typically fill up the first round as your second choice. If you are lucky, you will draw Johnson unit, if not, you have a good chance of drawing your next choice.
• To increase the likelihood that you will be drawn, apply for a weekday hunt as there are typically fewer applicants. Looking at the number of first choice applicants last year can give you an idea of which days of the week and time periods typically get less applicants.
• If you do not get a reservation, you can always get in the non-reservation line for a chance at unfilled reservations. You can also try hunting the North unit (open daily with self-serve check in) or the Westside (has a random lottery the morning of on hunt days).

Eastside Reservation Summaries (pdfs)