Went wolf hunting saturday up the Lochsa (Lolo Zone) with my hunting pard and good friend. We literally saw more wolves than elk... Not much of a story to tell here other than we were heading into a big drainage on snowshoes to chase a pack of 14. Ended up finding a pack of 5 across the river and my buddy was able to put this young male down at about 100 yds! I could've doubled up but my tags expired on Jan 1 (go figure, buy tags for the 2011 hunting season that runs through Jun30 in some units, but your tags expire with the calender year!) and I figured if we filled his two than we'd be doing alright. I could see the others as they took off through the trees but Al couldn't so no follow up shots to try and drop a second one.
Scariest part of the whole ordeal was we had to wade chest high water for about 40 yds to get across the river and get to the wolf! Getting him back across was interesting and Al ended up getting taken downstream for about 20-30 ft and went completely under and had to swim a bit. Thank god we were only a few hundred yds from the truck and dry clothes!
We stopped in Kamiah on the way home and people were pulling into the parking lot to congratulate us and shake our hands! It was pretty cool! About 10 miles outside of Lewiston we passed a Honda CRV with a woman inside. Her license plate read "WLFDNCR"... we just rolled down the windows and waved n smiled as we passed her....
Mike
