Check:
South of Greenwich, to Otter Creek Res. at or before sun up. They hit the cedars early, you be earlier.
Top of Pole Canyon, then north and/or south.
Hunts Lake, above town of Monroe.
Poverty Flats, south of the town of Monroe to Marysvale
Mormon Peak area/Bear Valley North of Burrville.
North of the Narrows between Otter Creek and Kingston.
Very, very, few, if any really large bulls left on the Monroe, your basically going to be picking between at 290 to 320 bulls. A large bull or two many get taken but we looked over 100 branch antler bulls over the summer and this fall, including this week. Very few if any of those older, huge antlered bulls on the unit. The large antlered days are over on the Monroe and the Fish Lake. Deer are scarce and now we're killing elk from both directions, the spikes hunts and the mature bull tag numbers over the last two years on the Monroe have left the unit without either young bulls nor old bulls. She's headed south for now. Course, that was the intent wasn't it! A few more folks got to hunt but the consequence is what hunters are experiencing this year.
Hope your hiking deep into the canyons, far from the roads and atv trails and getting away from the all the fat, lazy, pumpkin headed road hunters and finding all those monsters that our friends up north are so certain are stacked up like cord wood back in there. Better yet, have a few of those super-hunters come on down and show you how it's done.
Actually, I wish you all the best and hope your hunt is all you hoping it will be.
DC