Wolves by Bumping Lake

[jayrod9528]

I know it sounds crazy, but I would swear that I saw a wolf over NW of Bickleton. Just as info I have hunted that area many time and I KNOW what a coyote looks like and what a wolf looks like. This sucker was grey/whitish and big I saw it with in 100yards the only other thing it could have been is some sort of huskie/malamute. I doubt that because my friends and I were the only ones camping in that area and there was nothing between us and the Indian res.. So as far as I'm concerned it was a wolf or a wolf like animal, but 100% sure not a coyote.

[squeeze2drop]

I've got family in bickleton and have hunted there my whole life and have never even heard a rumor about a wolf in that area, again, doesn't mean it can't happen but I doubt it

[Wazukie]

I know it sounds crazy, but I would swear that I saw a wolf over NW of Bickleton. Just as info I have hunted that area many time and I KNOW what a coyote looks like and what a wolf looks like. This sucker was grey/whitish and big I saw it with in 100yards the only other thing it could have been is some sort of huskie/malamute. I doubt that because my friends and I were the only ones camping in that area and there was nothing between us and the Indian res.. So as far as I'm concerned it was a wolf or a wolf like animal, but 100% sure not a coyote.

Next time shoot it and ask questions later.  Just my 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

I have spent many days from Blankenship meadows,  pear lake and apple lake ... even down to rattlesnake creek and never once saw a wolf track or heard a howl in all the nights up there.  Now I am a believer in the wolves in the Nile,  as I have photo'd tracks there and also in the Nooksack this year.  So I believe they are more places than anyone is letting on.  Just never saw any sign up there in that area.  Not saying they can't be,  wouldn't take much for them to go from up by Clover Springs in the Nile to Bumping lake. 

[norsepeak]

doubt it....spend WAY too much time in that country hiking, glassing, snooping around, never seen/heard anything even close to a wolf.  know the outfitters in the are very well, and they spend just as much time as I do in the woods and they've never seen anything either....question for you believers:  Where do the wolves that are supposedly in the Nile area go in the winter time?  If you've never been up in the Nile area in the wintertime, there are snowmobiles EVERYWHERE, and you never hear of them seeing wolves.  Most of the elk move down into the lower nile in winter, but where are the wolves?

[carpsniperg2]

 

[nileboy]

When I was 17, I swear my brother and I saw two wolves together near lost creek village. Now the older I get the more I realize that they were probably song dogs. The one thing that stands out in my mind is that the one was huge! The size of Bosco! Our old english sheep dog. Now days with all the speculation I start to wonder again.

[wastickslinger]

doubt it....spend WAY too much time in that country hiking, glassing, snooping around, never seen/heard anything even close to a wolf.  know the outfitters in the are very well, and they spend just as much time as I do in the woods and they've never seen anything either....question for you believers:  Where do the wolves that are supposedly in the Nile area go in the winter time?  If you've never been up in the Nile area in the wintertime, there are snowmobiles EVERYWHERE, and you never hear of them seeing wolves.  Most of the elk move down into the lower nile in winter, but where are the wolves?

I see no reason to doubt that there are wolves in all parts of the state. I spend alot of time every spring and some time in the fall in the far south east corner and I had never seen a wolf. But they have confirmed that they are there. Just cause we dont see them does not mean they are not there. I have never seen a 200" buck buck but they have been killed. I have never seen a 400" bull bu they have been killed.

I understand that you spend alot of time in the Nile but just cause you have not seen one does not mean that thay are not there. That is silly.

[bearpaw]

They are missing some collared wolves in the Methow.

If you watch the Idaho F&G Video, you will see on a map that it's common for wolves to move great distances, even to other states, just to find a new territory. I think it's very likely the wolves are there with all the different sightings being reported.

Idaho Sets 2009 Wolf Season.

[wolfbait]

Like the GPS collared wolves that were seen in Bridge creek in 2005, I am trying to get a hold of the video of this sighting. maybe We could help WDFW gather up some of their wolves. Can't be the Lookout pack, because the Lookout pack doesn't have GPS collars.

[Curly]

Too bad they don't all have GPS collars.............they'd be easier to locate and 

 

[high country]

given the density of elk, the remoteness of the country and the wolves habits of traveling long distances.....I give it a strong maybe. the wolves I saw when I was living in alaska were considerably more cautious then those I saw just out of kellogg....they seem to be ok with man.......even the crazies in the silver valley.

[wolfbait]

Alaska is a big country, Washington is going to run out of food for the predators real soon. The wolves put everything over the cliff.

[dreamingbig]

I didn't hear or see any wolves in the Bumping this weekend.

[Skyvalhunter]

 Me either!!