Another IDAHO thread

[Jonathan_S]

Idaho is too steep. I just confirmed that the past four days. Don't waste your time.

Want to hear a joke? It goes, "Frank Church in May"

LOL, could you even get up there?  We have been trying to head up to the mountains north of the Church a ways, but as of a two weeks ago, there was still 10 ft of snow on the main road to get in.  Im hoping by July we can get up there.  Snow pack is pretty good this year

Yeah going through the metropolis of Yellow Pine, I could get within a few miles of the wilderness boundary. I hiked the rest of the way.

[7mmfan]

Hoping someone on here may have a good biologist contact for the Salmon Region. The guy I talked to a month or so ago was less than helpful. If you've talked with a guy in particular that you felt was knowledgeable and helpful from a hunters perspective, I'd love to talk with him. Feel free to pm if you like.

[300rum]

I have some info, what are you looking for?

Hoping someone on here may have a good biologist contact for the Salmon Region. The guy I talked to a month or so ago was less than helpful. If you've talked with a guy in particular that you felt was knowledgeable and helpful from a hunters perspective, I'd love to talk with him. Feel free to pm if you like.

[fishngamereaper]

Idaho is too steep. I just confirmed that the past four days. Don't waste your time.

Want to hear a joke? It goes, "Frank Church in May"

LOL, could you even get up there?  We have been trying to head up to the mountains north of the Church a ways, but as of a two weeks ago, there was still 10 ft of snow on the main road to get in.  Im hoping by July we can get up there.  Snow pack is pretty good this year

Yeah going through the metropolis of Yellow Pine, I could get within a few miles of the wilderness boundary. I hiked the rest of the way.

Did you lock your doors when you drove through yellow pine...last time I drove through all the locals where eye in me and I felt like I was in deliverance...but really its a nice town...

[7mmfan]

I have some info, what are you looking for?

Hoping someone on here may have a good biologist contact for the Salmon Region. The guy I talked to a month or so ago was less than helpful. If you've talked with a guy in particular that you felt was knowledgeable and helpful from a hunters perspective, I'd love to talk with him. Feel free to pm if you like.

Now that 2015 stats are out, I was hoping to bounce some areas off of him and get his opinion on how animals may have faired in those areas, and if they are seeing an uptick in populations in certain areas now that burns are regenerating well.

[Jonathan_S]

Idaho is too steep. I just confirmed that the past four days. Don't waste your time.

Want to hear a joke? It goes, "Frank Church in May"

LOL, could you even get up there?  We have been trying to head up to the mountains north of the Church a ways, but as of a two weeks ago, there was still 10 ft of snow on the main road to get in.  Im hoping by July we can get up there.  Snow pack is pretty good this year

Yeah going through the metropolis of Yellow Pine, I could get within a few miles of the wilderness boundary. I hiked the rest of the way.

Did you lock your doors when you drove through yellow pine...last time I drove through all the locals where eye in me and I felt like I was in deliverance...but really its a nice town...

I usually time it to drive in at night haha

[7mmfan]

So now we're considering doubling up on deer and elk tags and hunting the overlap, mainly so my nephew has a better opportunity at pulling the trigger on an animal.  I like the idea of potentially finding bulls still rutting, but I also like the idea of hunting late when I may have weather on my side, and no deer hunters in the woods.

Any thoughts/experience on hunting elk on the opener vs. the last week of the season?

[300rum]

I would go as late as possible.  My experience in ID is that the areas get pressure early from locals and such but the last few days are pretty good.  The last few days of the deer season are the best and the rut seems to kick in a little earlier up there (church), the last day or two of the season.  I have always seen bulls including some nice ones during that time of year and only a few hunters that stick mainly to the few roads there are.   

[WA hunter14]

last year i hunted the last week of the season and saw 3 bulls but all of them on the wrong side of the river, some guys i hunt with hunted there the week before and killed two bulls but they said they had to go above the snow level wich at that time was a heck of a walk for two spike bulls. i hunted there earlier and saw 0 elk so im definately sold on the last week and will be there again this year

[kentrek]

So now we're considering doubling up on deer and elk tags and hunting the overlap, mainly so my nephew has a better opportunity at pulling the trigger on an animal.  I like the idea of potentially finding bulls still rutting, but I also like the idea of hunting late when I may have weather on my side, and no deer hunters in the woods.

Any thoughts/experience on hunting elk on the opener vs. the last week of the season?

Go for the rut....over the last decade we've killed majority of our elk the first morning and the second morning....

[7mmfan]

A lot of good advice, lots to think about.

[7mmfan]

We made the call to go early and overlap deer season to give my nephew the greatest opportunity at pulling the trigger on an animal. One of us will be buying a deer tag as well as there has to be an adult hunting with the same tags as him, but I believe I will be focusing mainly on elk. I'm the only one really physically able/willing to go ultra deep and steep on a day hunt. I've been spending a lot of time looking at google earth and the assessors web page for that area. Does anyone have any experience hunting the mid/lower elevation stuff that is trapped by private? A lot of the ground looks amazing, and theres no way to get it than to hike in from above. I'm just curious if there will be animals there that time of year or if I should focus my time up high?

[The Fin]

I have hunted those units for several years.  I would be more than happy to share info with you.  I will send you a PM.

[7mmfan]

As I'm getting closer, I've got most details of this hunt dialed in. One thing i'm curious about is if anyone knows of a place to hang meat in Salmon or North Fork, should the weather be warm while we're there? Just a contingency plan...

[2MANY]

Salmon has a couple meat lockers.
One out across 93 from the airport.