idaho wolves

[Brindle]

I would really love to come up there and help out with the wolf problem. But I need some help on where to go? And when is the best time? Also the best methods? If anyone would be willing to go on a ride with me and show me the way I would appreciate it.

[Unreal_tk]

I dont know from experience but i had been told last time they had a season it wasnt to difficult if you found a pack. One guy just used a coyote howler that i heard of. But id be game to get a tag too if i get a non residents permit.

[George Streepy]

I hear a Hoochie Mama elk call works well.

[zachvu]

Sad thing, but I've heard the sound of hounds works all too well

[chsnlions]

I was in Idaho on a moose hunt a couple weeks ago and was shocked at the amount of wolves. Everywhere they could leave a track there were tracks. I seen a couple, one from the truck and one from the trail riding my horse. If you decide to go and need an area let me know, there was not a shortage where i was at.

[muzzy]

i had the same question im sure there is people willing to help if the residents of idaho really want to get rid of some wolves they should help out any way they can but it doesnt seem like u got a lot of answers

[LDB]

I will tell anyone anything that I know. One thing that you guys have to realize is we the residents aren't exactly expert wolf hunters we never had any to speak of until 15 years ago. I am trying to learn as much as I can as fast as I can but I am not an expert. I am a person who spends most of his time in the woods, and is a lifelong native of northern Idaho. Here in the panhandle the problem didn't really get bad until the last five years or so. That being said we still do not have as many here as further south, but that is changing fast. This will be our second hunting and first trapping season in my lifetime so everyone's experience level with them is limited.

The cover here in the northern panhandle is thick and slowly starts to get more open the further south you go in the state. If you decide to try to hunt calling is probably the best bet. From what I have heard wolves respond and come into a variety of different calls readily. There are packs just about everywhere so locating wolf sign is easy, what I think is going to be a lot harder is figuring out, and being right a high percentage of the time, where exactly they are at when you are going to try to call them and this may prove to be a random thing. A fresh snow would definitely help in this respect. If you are going to try call them in look to be dealing with them at close quarters if you are hunting up north here, sounds like fun to me, I have recently acquired a couple new pump guns and a bunch of 00 buck. There are some clearcut areas and so on that could afford longer shots but in general the cover is thick.

As far as trapping them goes Brent Sinclair put up a real good post the other day about the subject, look it up if you are interested.

Feel free to send me a message or post on the topic if there are specific questions you would like to ask. I will do my best to aid and abet in every wolf death possible.

What it is really going to boil down to though is some guys are going to have to dedicate a bunch of time to figuring these critters out and then we will start to be able to teach others but right now we are just trying to figure it out ourselves so put on your boots, fill up the Toyota, head for any national forest in this great state, scout out a pack, and please be kind enough to share any knowledge you are able to gain. This is kind of like a war and we all have a common interest, so let's make a collaborative effort to make the most of the hunting and trapping opportunities being afforded to us. I have spent my entire life hunting from the Clearwater River north primarily so if you have questions about this area definitely contact me, I know the country pretty well.

Leon Brown

[huntfish8]

Well said LDB. And don't forget don't stop shooting untell you can see any more... good luck. I know I'm gonna try to do my best.

[Mikes Hero]

The highest density of wolves in Idaho are from Banks to Stanley - Payette River and surrounding drainages. (this is IDF&G information - so who knows if it is correct or not)

If I knew how to hunt them effectively I would be happy to tell you. Have tried sucking them into treed hounds twice when I know they were in the area, it did not work either time. Good luck and please come to Idaho and shoot all you want.

[Brent Sinclair]

Wolves are wolves no matter where you find them.
If you treat them like an educated coyote you will learn alot, no one ever starts out an expert, time and failure will make you one though!!!!
Don't be scared to make a misteak, it will only teach you for the next time.
With the numbers you guys have the first few will be somewhat easier but as time goes on you'll notice you have to be more carefull.

Calling..( howling ) is very effective...I have killed several for clients doing this, they can not resist , they may not come in like a coyote and again they may so be ready... be patient as well and do not over call.....just enought to keep them interested...once every 15 - 20 minutes for about 30 seconds I find works best but wolves sometimes react different in areas with alot of feed or areas with little feed.
Locating them by doing this will allow you to get into position, get some heigth and a vantage point to see from if needed, have your buddy doing the howling set up below you or on the edge of an opening a river bed or a cut block a 100 or so yards apart so one or both of you can have a chance to see the wolf as it comes in .
I have done this more than once and we both killed a wolf on the same set up!!!
Patients is the key, like rattling a whitetail or looking for a ram.
The more time you sit the better.
Sometimes you have to move on and a decition has to be made, but you will never learn if you don't get out there and try.
We called this female back in on a sprin bear hunt after she spooked when she saw us across a valley..
Good Luck guys and kill some wolves.

[catdogs]

I would say always have a gun handy you never know where and when you might see one, might be in the high country, or down low runnig across a high way and anywhere in beween. They say a wolf averages 15 miles per day, they move alot. I was lucky enought to tag one in 09. Just happen to come across them while out elk hunting, but i have seen them just driving around too. Have a good shootin gun that is loaded and ready to kill them.

[tylers dad]

i know where I live it is thick and you very seldom see them. Hearing them isn't uncommon and seeing tracks is almost an every day occurance. My suggestion is locating a pack, get close to them, and then try calling.

[Ayers Mtn. Kennels]

Whats the wolve situation around the garden valley area? I have an outfitter that wants me to use my hounds there for spring bear but dont want to go across country to get my pack turned into wolve bait.

[Gperkins14mms]

Kill em all

[BrawlMouth]

Yea take them all out.