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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: newred on September 23, 2015, 02:11:39 PM

Title: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: newred on September 23, 2015, 02:11:39 PM: All season hearing the wolves howl in the drainages surrounding 49 degrees north. Saturday they were running my drainage. No elk talking after the howls.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: kodiak 907 on September 23, 2015, 03:41:42 PM: There were 4 up the sand canyon road during my spring bear hunt.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: Bickley on September 23, 2015, 09:40:44 PM: I have spent quite a bit of time up around there and haven't heard or seen any but hearing this makes my blood boil! I hate wolves!!!
When did you hear them? I was up there yesterday.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: cmiller85 on September 24, 2015, 05:08:50 AM: Quote from: newred on September 23, 2015, 02:11:39 PM
All season hearing the wolves howl in the drainages surrounding 49 degrees north. Saturday they were running my drainage. No elk talking after the howls.

I haven't seen or heard them this hear in my area. They were here last year. I'm hunting unpressured elk as far as I can tell and have heard 1 elk bugle in 12 days of hunting. Very strange year. Even the satellites just don't seem to care.

Were they talking good for you before the wolves?
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: boneaddict on September 24, 2015, 05:53:09 AM: There's no, before the wolves..... I know you what you meant, but they have been heavy in there for several years. I think it does change how the elk talk
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: PA BEN on September 24, 2015, 12:52:20 PM: Yep
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,182621.0.html
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: newred on September 24, 2015, 07:19:31 PM: They were fairly quiet before the howling but at least a few bugles each night in the canyon. Then the days of howling and no elk talk at all.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: newred on September 24, 2015, 07:21:40 PM: Actually elk talk this year was really weird both up in 117 and down in the blues.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: gun-dog on September 25, 2015, 12:15:26 AM: I got into the wolves around the Power Lake area over the last 10 days. Lots of sign, fresh tracks, a couple of howls, and ZERO elk talk. I found the elk tonight but I couldn't get it done. They were very quiet, I didn't hear a bugle all season.
Title: Re: Anyone else run into wolves near 49?
Post by: belkaholic on September 25, 2015, 09:15:22 AM: herd a couple wolfs last night in the natches unit. it explained a lot about how the elk were acting during our hunt up there.