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I just found out I drew a Wisconsin Wolf License... any help you can provide re Guides and Outfitters for WI Wolves would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

Craig

Does anyone know how many were drawn for licenses? I cannot find that information anywhere.

Is it just me or does it seem a little amazing that at least three bow site users have drawn tags?

If your trapping, while scouting different areas and you find scat pick it up and keep it. One of the best attractants you can have as they'll think there is a new wolf in the area and hunt it down.

I did not get drawn will be going in next year with 4 points, at 3 now.

You are not allowed to relocate a car kill but dragging it a short distance from the roadway where it was legally killed and setting traps around it is legal. Same goes with gut piles.

It is certainly meat so there is some doubt, guess a call to a warden would be justified before doing this.

Really makes you wonder how many family pet dogs just disappear as a result of a wolf attack. I know it was common for pet dogs to be killed by wolfs in the area where I bear hunted in Minnesota years ago.

I too thought about the "baiting" techniques, but upon closely reading the regulations concluded that road kill, gut piles, etcetera, would be a direct violation as the statute reads therefore scratched my head and didn't go down that path... Upon shooting the wolf I had to bring it in to the DNR office for some biological studies to be completed and a few questions were asked with regards to location of the kill, how many days hunting, sightings, etc. When the biologist got to the "baiting" question I told him that I didn't use any bait, but asked how one would actually bait for wolves under the regulations in place... He did not know either. I also posed the very same question with regards to the legality of gut piles and using road kill carcasses and he didn't have an answer for this either... Sorry I can't clarify this one for you, but it seems like higher authorities can't necessarily either. Perhaps this is one you should take to your local warden and get in writing before the show starts.

Good luck!! Keep us updated.

Calling or the use of dogs later is probably best way for a gunner. Check DNR website for latest dog depredation areas and concentrate efforts there.

I would like to hear from some successful hunts on both sides from the hunter not the guides.

Thank you in advance for your comments.

If you are hunting you cannot be anywhere near meat whether or not it died right there or you moved a road kill or parts of it to the spot. Not even small pieces.

If you are trapping you can use meat and animal parts as a 'lure'. In other words to attract and direct a wolf to step on that 2" spot where your trap pan is.

Trappers can also put whole or large parts of meat, deer kill, road kill (with a possession tag in your posession), whatever out to attract and hold wolfs to your trap area but this needs to be at least 20' from the trap, 25' for state/federal trappers.

Trappers can also place whole bare bones near the trap as an attractant. Now I know what to do with some cow bones that have been laying in one of the pastures that I hunt in.

If anyone goes to one of the next classes let us know if what you hear is the same.

Good luck!

"Question 7: Can you use a dead deer to bait coyotes for hunting purposes?

Answer: Hunting coyote, wolf, fox or raccoons over a deer gut pile or a naturally occurring carcass of a deer is not considered baiting. However, carcasses of animals may not be placed out intentionally as bait for hunting any game."

There you go. Print the page off the DNR website and set up over that carcass or gut pile.

Drag race is right, I am headed out to find a few more spots. Maybe some in my backup zone which is about as close as my zone A spots. Two people have told me they have seen wolf in that area this summer.

My hottest tip was a big male standing right on the shoulder a week ago. Couldn't get any closer than 1.5 miles due to the Martin Restoration closed area and private lands and a home right there. It is a long drive too.

It should be on the right hand side of the main Wisconsin forum, just above the Summit advertisement.

It should say "Welcome Back east fork lodge", then right below that you should be notified if you have any new private Messages or you can click on the bottom link; "My Private Messages"

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of protesters plans to shadow wolf hunters in Wisconsin so they can observe their methods. Wisconsin’s third annual wolf hunt began Wednesday. The group, which calls itself the Great Lakes Wolf Patrol, released a statement saying 11 members are operating out of a base camp on public lands in northern Wisconsin. They plan to patrol federal, state and county forest lands searching for wolf hunters and trappers. They say they won’t interfere with the hunt, however. Members of the patrol also shadowed wolf hunters in Montana earlier this fall. A state Department of Natural Resources spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the protesters. Wisconsin’s hunt is slated to run until Feb. 28 or until hunters reach the 150-animal statewide kill limit.

I got 9 traps buried today 9.5 hours and 70 miles of mostly fire lanes and logging roads. Had 3 more to go but that would have been another 30 miles to get where I want to put them and might have gotten one in the ground before dark. Hopefully when I run the first 9 tomorrow I won't need to go set those last three. Plan B, just in case, is to set them in the afternoon.

I did run into three guys setting a trap not 10 yards from an atv trail road, and only 6 feet off a dead end spur road that intersected right there. I already had one trap set on that dead end when I saw them and stopped to talk. One guy was tucking dirt in on the trap when another guy tossed a little dirt on the trap from about 2' and it tripped the trap (MB650), then it caught the tip of the other guys glove in the trap. Dare I say Daaa.... So, too many cooks in the kitchen, trap set way too light, and way too close to two roads to avoid grouse hunters dogs. Although I should say the odds of there being a domestic dog at that spot is pretty close to zero.

Something tripped the last trap I checked and I believe the trap had a slight hold on it. Reason I think that is that there is 30 inches of chain to the bracket that holds the X crossed rerod stakes. All that chain was up above the dirt. That 30 inches includes the shock spring on the picture. So, it took some effort to get that all lifted above the dirt. There are no signs of digging of any kind, bait was still in the hole. No hair on the trap or ground. As a result I set a second trap about 50 yards from this one. The triped trap was moved back maybe 8 inches center to center from where it was to where it ended up. I am saying I caught a ghost wolf. Don't even need to use a tag on those. If you look close in the pic just above the jaws there is a good size compressed area of sand on top of a leaf. It is oval shaped probably 2" x 3" but no hint that there are separate pads in the print.

On my way into my first area I met a car that stopped so I did too. Had a long talk with him, he lives very near where I had 4 traps, now have 5 there based on info from him. We talked a lot about his concern for his dog while grouse hunting on roads there. I explained how concerned trappers avoid putting traps close to roads. He was surprised that Wolf was open but relieved when I explained the season probably would not last a week and how he could check the internet for closure status.

So, I now have 11 in the ground. Keeping that last one in the truck in case I get another situation like this or if I get the OK to go after the wolf that got the calf.

Update: Two people with significant experience with these MB650 traps say it was probably a deer that got in that trap. Apparently they can slip their foot out of these pretty easy and tend to be curious about the smell of the lures used for yote and wolf..

Zone Quota Harvest Zone Status

Zone 1 - 7 Open

Zone 2- 6 Open

Zone 3- 1 Open

Zone 4- 0 Open

Zone 5- 2 Open

Zone 6- 0 Open

Total 150 16

Zone 1 where I currently have my traps is at 10 of 32, looks like I could be moving them all to zone 3 in a few days.

Funny that zone 3 had 3 wolfs listed as killed yesterday evening, this evening they have 1 killed. Someone must have brought two dead wolfs back to life.

So, why is zone 2 closing tomorrow when they are still 3 wolfs short of the quota? I thought they went one day past when the quota filled. Looks like a bum deal for people in that zone.

Kind of scares me on what they will do when zone 1 fills, Takes me till around 3:00 to just check my traps. No way could I pull them all and still get done by 3:00 much less by noon.

Yup DNR is clueless on lots of topics, and selling 10 licenses for each wolf in the quota is way too many. Giving hunters a 3 day or 2 week season is just not right, especially given how fast zones are closing.

This drag race as Drop Tine put it is a good way to say it.

20 questions, ya and probably more.

Good luck to those still on the hunt.

Now zone 1 closes tomorrow with 12 left in the quota. SUCKS! I just put my last trap under ground this afternoon near some good sign. So, pull all the traps tomorrow and if they are all empty then head to zone 3 on Monday. Glad I put fresh bait on all of them today.

How does zone 3 only have 3 killed out of 40? Must be some really poor hunters and trappers there. ;-)

Does anyone remember the discussions we had here years ago about whether we could even come close to getting the quota? Many were saying it would be so hard but a few of us wise old timers said it would be a cake walk. I am still looking for my own cake tho.

I am bummed about zone 3, I thought the SE part of sawyer county was in it but it isn't. Need to rethink where I should go.

Jeff take a good sized pair of vice grips and clamp onto the nut and twist and pull. That's how I get rebar out of frozen ground with my cable restraints for coyote.

I had what I think was a wolf track on one trap, moved the leaves away with a stick before tripping the trap and saw it in the sand, below and left of the trap. On another trap there was a 3.5 inch (pad) bear track just left of the trap, one above and a smaller print (less weight applied) up near the dirt hole.