Idaho city and Rocky Bar Wolves?

[Nelly]

Got a question just wondering how the wolf situation is in between these two places? I live out of state now and would really like to take a trip back to my old stomping grounds.
thanks in advance !!!!

CW

 

[htnfool]

CW,

It's a sad state of affairs here. The wolves have been working over the elk and deer herd un-obstructed. I think there time of conquering is about to come to an end, so to speak. It is still beautiful country there.

 

[Idahoron]

If your plan is to see game you will be disappointed. I was looking at the hunting regs from 1989. Unit 43 had 900 elk tags in it then. They now have 100 if I am not wrong. That has got to mean something. Ron

 

[htnfool]

I archery hunted unit 43 for elk last year. Saw 2 bulls and 9 cows. It was soooo sad. 3 of the cows were in a group with no bulls and I have never seen animals so on the lookout for somethng ( wolves perhaps) than ever before. They would put there head down to feed and then pick it up as soon as it got down. At times all 3 would just be looking in different directions for extended periods of time. They are usually just eating away in the early mornings, but not this morning. And none had calves. I did see 2 calves in the other group outta 5 cows. Usually would see virtually 100% calves per cow. It is a crying shame what has happened.

 

[Nelly]

WOW this is what I have been reading but I was really having a hard time believing it! I can remeber driving to are hunting spot and we would see hundreds of rigs through out the unit and it seemd like there were elk and deer ever where. Man I guess my planned hunting trip will just be a site seeing hike! lol
This sucks, but I still would like to try, for a deer hunt but will see, guess it doesnt look good. Shoot! thanks again for the info. When does the wolf hunt season start, I could always hunt them!

CW

 

[YukonDall]

help me out here fellas.....i an looking for a area in northern idaho to do a whitetail/wolf hunt or a elk/wolf hunt or all 3 if possible.......in late oct or early november. i see a lot of type b tags are available. any decent areas to try ?? just a chance at a wolf would be what i,m really after.......thanks.....yd.

 

[muleybucks]

So here's how you figure it out:

Pull an old set of regs from 10 years back and see what the elk seasons were (Oct 1 -Nov. 15 or perhaps draw with 2000 total tags). Compare to the 2009 tag seeasons (Oct 15-24 or 300 total draw tags).

Those which have been horrendously restricted have been done so for a reason.

The wolves seem to have a greater impact on elk than they do deer, but I think they'd eat deer if the elk got too scarce.

I can say with certainty that the Rocky Bar area used to hold some fantastic elk hunting. It would be a dream to see elk numbers at 50% of what they were in the glory days. I can recall seeing 19 bulls in a 2 day scouting trip (during archery season) in that area back in the late 80's. Now, archery hunters hunt for a week and might see a dozen elk in a week. It's pretty sad.

See you in there WOLF hunting Sept. 1.......


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