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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #405 on: October 21, 2012, 09:33:53 PM »
I was with a tribal member this weekend picking up litter with our ATV club. He lives out of Omak. He told me the tribe has identified 3 separate packs with 25 wolves in each pack, He said the packs were south of Republic/Hall Creek areas and further south and down in Hell's Gate. I don't know if it's true or not, but he doesn't have a reason to stretch the truth. Can anyone confirm it or heard rumors to the liking.
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #406 on: October 22, 2012, 01:48:06 PM »
Did not actually see them but found the tracks on a cattle trail 30 yards from my tent on Thursday morning(10/04/12). All about the size of my wallet, 4.5" long. Here is a pic of the most clear track. Lone tracks spaced far apart, them a bunch of them together. This was in LT. Murray area, Manastash GMU340, Observatory Road, down low. Tracks were not there when I went to sleep, found them at first light.

Reported to WDFW.

I'm no expert - maybe a bunch of large yotes?

Coyote.

I don't think coyotes make 4.5" long tracks. Coyote tracks are typically between 2" and 3" in length. How could this be a coyote?
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #407 on: October 22, 2012, 01:55:10 PM »
I was with a tribal member this weekend picking up litter with our ATV club. He lives out of Omak. He told me the tribe has identified 3 separate packs with 25 wolves in each pack, He said the packs were south of Republic/Hall Creek areas and further south and down in Hell's Gate. I don't know if it's true or not, but he doesn't have a reason to stretch the truth. Can anyone confirm it or heard rumors to the liking.

I would'nt argue with the three seperate packs. But 25 in each pack? That sounds a little far fetched!
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #408 on: October 22, 2012, 01:57:39 PM »
I was with a tribal member this weekend picking up litter with our ATV club. He lives out of Omak. He told me the tribe has identified 3 separate packs with 25 wolves in each pack, He said the packs were south of Republic/Hall Creek areas and further south and down in Hell's Gate. I don't know if it's true or not, but he doesn't have a reason to stretch the truth. Can anyone confirm it or heard rumors to the liking.

I would'nt argue with the three seperate packs. But 25 in each pack? That sounds a little far fetched!

I know. That would be on the news if it was true. Can't argue with someone when I don't know anything about it. Oh well !
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #409 on: October 22, 2012, 02:11:59 PM »
I was with a tribal member this weekend picking up litter with our ATV club. He lives out of Omak. He told me the tribe has identified 3 separate packs with 25 wolves in each pack, He said the packs were south of Republic/Hall Creek areas and further south and down in Hell's Gate. I don't know if it's true or not, but he doesn't have a reason to stretch the truth. Can anyone confirm it or heard rumors to the liking.

I would'nt argue with the three seperate packs. But 25 in each pack? That sounds a little far fetched!



I know. That would be on the news if it was true. Can't argue with someone when I don't know anything about it. Oh well !

as far as where he said the packs are hes pretty right on the money but as far as 25 i dout it they only got collars on 3
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #410 on: October 25, 2012, 05:12:04 PM »
Found out that his numbers are waay off, just like I thought.  :tup:
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #411 on: October 27, 2012, 09:20:13 AM »
10/25/2012 in Falls River GMU #672 I saw what looked like a black wolf cross the road in front of my pickup.  I was going to work and didn't stop to check for tracks.  Wish I would have.  Talked to the owner of area wolf crossed into about black dogs and there aren't any.  Didn't look like a regular dog anyhow.  Real long legs that left the biggest impression being how tall it was.   

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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #412 on: October 30, 2012, 10:04:29 AM »
1 wolf pup was hit by a car, 4 others ran away Hwy 25 near Evans ,  in September

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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #413 on: November 07, 2012, 04:17:13 PM »
10/30/12 am.  first gated rd to the Left going in on the 4610 (025?) this would be off the 46/skyline rd in the blues. lite grey wolf popped up on a log approx 25yds in front of me as i was working around some dead fall across the old rd. we both stared at each other for what seemed like forever but was probably only 30 secs & it jumped off the log in my direction. there was a lot of waist high growth in the area above the old rd & I lost sight of it. brought the gun up & backed back to the rd watching all around. at this point i was on the radio to my brother who had split from me at this y to let him know where i was & that i had a wolf on me & that i was working back out. he started back to where we split in case i got in trouble. After the forth time i called him to tell him this thing was siding me at no more than 30 yds his responce was "hey that thing is tracking you, shoot the SOB" well i didn't as it never showed an aggressive attitude & never crossed the"line" however it was in the scope a few times.
I was very wary on the way out, not knowing if it was alone or not but it was the only one i saw,don't know if i was being decoyed or not but when i got back to the gate & met with my bro & another hunter that had pulled up they both said it was a possability. never saw it again once i rounded the corner where i could see the orange of the other guys.
Was a very large, lite grey & seemed fluffed out. don't know if it was just curious, or i stunk to bad from the sweat that stated poring from me that it didn't want any part of me.
as far as the SSS deal goes, I'm glad i didn't have to kill it(as bad as i wanted to) because i wouldn't have been able to tell the story, my brother would have been in the same boat & it was allready out on the radio what was happening.

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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #414 on: November 07, 2012, 05:42:27 PM »
on the same story, when we talked to the gamies at a check station at the entrance to the NF land,they told us when we reported that their were only a few fragmented animals in the state & not any established packs such as northern idaho

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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #415 on: November 08, 2012, 11:29:15 AM »
gaddy, thankfully we had the opposite experience, when we were breaking down elk camp Sunday in GMU 340, we had an officer check us out and without prompting he went into a rant about how this wolf deal is a slow moving train wreck and was not at all happy with the situation. A really good guy, at least not all have drank the kool-aid.
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #416 on: December 04, 2012, 12:12:04 PM »
Good chance of hearing howling on the north end of Cameron road in 127 right now.

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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #417 on: December 04, 2012, 03:06:34 PM »
There was a probable Wolf sighting in western Washington brought up in another thread. Thought it should be added here.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,111753.0.html
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #418 on: December 04, 2012, 05:45:21 PM »
Does anyody know what the total confirmed pack number was as stated by WDFW this past Saturday during the GMAC meeting?
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Re: Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+
« Reply #419 on: December 04, 2012, 07:10:33 PM »
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Possible wolf sighting in Western Washington
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I was hunting elk in the Puyallup GMU clost to the Mud Mountain area about 3 / 4  miles out of Enemuclaw.  I was watching a pair of deer (sm buck and doe) from a higher vantage point.  The buck walked off quickly but the doe was staring hard off to her left.  I continues to watch her for over 75 / 7 minutes and she did not move a muscle. . . FROZE.  So I was determined to wait it out and see what had her undivided attention.  Well, I got bored and stood up after another 5 minutes and there, standing on a log about 50 / 60 yards down to my left, was a huge, hairy, gray wolf ! ! !  I glassed it with my binocs as I could not believe what I was seeing.  I have seen thousands of yotes and rogue dogs, but these were wolfs.  Yes these, as there was also a redish brown one as well. they were doing the tag team to get that doe.  Well I scared them off.  When I did, they ran together than ran off, just as a mating pair would act.  I contacted WDFW and they seem to think they are "wolf-dog" animals released by some other party?  I think they are a new mating pair from the Teanaway pack and have sought out a new territory to call their own.  The Teanaway pack is only slightly N/E of this location and wolfs will travel long distances to establish a new territory.   So, has anybody else seen or heard of wolfs in the White Water area?  I am going back VERY SOON with my movie camera and am going to put up trail cameras in the area to see if I can capture pics of the pair.

This was GMU #652 and the coord were N47 09.278  W121  56.085
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