Free: Contests & Raffles.
I think your Cold Water lake approach is a solid idea (by boat that is). Looks like a heck of hike up the ridge once you land your boat though unless you can find them low. That is a looooong trip on a trolling motor though especially if choppy. I wouldn’t attempt that without a backup battery onboard.
I drew the muzzleloader cow tag for that unit. Plan on boating up the lake then hunt the lower part of the unit. Had the bull tag in 2015 awesome hunt. No big bulls in the area but lots of legal bulls
Careful if you have to leave your meat to go back for pack boards. We usually try to Drape our sweatiest nastiest shirt or socks that we have with us on the animals to try to keep a human scent in the area.I was up a few years ago helping pack out a friends Cow elk. We had seen another Hunter who was also successful that was hiking out along the lake while we were on the boat headed back in. Had to make two trips as the electric motor didn’t want to push two guys a whole elk and all our gear. As we got back up we saw where the other hunter said he had his down we pulled up the binos and Yep there it is right on the hillside with a big black wolf standing on top of it eating away. Never did run back in to that guy to see how much he had left when he got back to it.
Quote from: bowhntr on June 20, 2019, 06:46:16 AMI think your Cold Water lake approach is a solid idea (by boat that is). Looks like a heck of hike up the ridge once you land your boat though unless you can find them low. That is a looooong trip on a trolling motor though especially if choppy. I wouldn’t attempt that without a backup battery onboard. The good news is, I work for a boat dealership, so I will probably go in with a pretty substantial battery/troller setup. Maybe even a solar panel charger! I appreciate the insight. :-)