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Offline Dorado

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Wind River Wilderness
« on: Mar 12, 2008, 07:42 PM »
Skied/snowshoed into Long Lake above Fremont last Sunday.  Spectacular day, caught a ton of 12-18" brookies, cutthroat and cutt-bows, kept a mess for dinner.

Even saw what appeared to be wolverine tracks!!!



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Offline Dorado

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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #1 on: Mar 12, 2008, 08:08 PM »
Whoops, this pic did not come through for some reason....

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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #2 on: Mar 12, 2008, 08:19 PM »
Quote from: Dorado on Mar 12, 2008, 07:42 PM
Skied/snowshoed into Long Lake above Fremont last Sunday.  Spectacular day, caught a ton of 12-18" brookies, cutthroat and cutt-bows, kept a mess for dinner.

Even saw what appeared to be wolverine tracks!!!

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I will be the first to say those pics are awsome.That  is the great outdoors.
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Offline moski

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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #3 on: Mar 12, 2008, 08:48 PM »
i agree! those are some good ones! how long is the hike up there dorado?
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #4 on: Mar 12, 2008, 09:42 PM »
 :)hey great pictures and fishin report glad to see you had a good time.  thanks
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #5 on: Mar 12, 2008, 10:04 PM »
Nice pics, looks like you had a great time!  ;D
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #6 on: Mar 13, 2008, 10:10 AM »
nice d.  no lakers in there?  looks like a beautiful trip.  gonna have to make it up there some time.  did you get pics of the wolverine tracks?  i saw one a couple of summers ago up above phelps lake in the tetons with some friends.  very rare.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #7 on: Mar 13, 2008, 10:25 AM »
Did you see the wolverine or his tracks?  These tracks were only about 16-20 inches apart, a real short stride.



It was about 7 miles round trip to the inlet area of the lake.  Postholed w/snowshoes on the way out, definitely better when there was a nice crust.

No lake trout in there, but a buddy that came along with us turned around because he did not have snowshoes (only skis).  He caught a 15 pound lake trout near the inlet of Fremont, so it all worked out in the end!!!
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #8 on: Mar 13, 2008, 10:28 AM »
Looks like it was alot of fun!
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #9 on: Mar 13, 2008, 11:17 AM »
Quote from: Dorado on Mar 13, 2008, 10:25 AM
Did you see the wolverine or his tracks?..

we were just waking up after spending the night at about 9500 ft in open canyon, above phelps lake, and i looked over and a wolverine was loping along about 100 yds away, coming towards us.  he got to about 35 yds out, saw us, and stopped.  i punched my one friend that was close enough and pointed, so he saw it before the wolverine turned and continued across the slope and down into a rock field where we lost him.  he was probably about 120+ lbs or so, all black with a big white stripe from his nose around both sides to the tail.  big yellow eyes.  didn't act scared of us at all; just acted like he had somewhere to go.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #10 on: Mar 13, 2008, 11:18 AM »
i would say those are wolverine tracks that you saw, too.  pretty sweet.  i read somewhere that the individual adult has a range of like 500 miles.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #11 on: Mar 13, 2008, 11:22 AM »
the one i saw looked a lot like this
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Offline pooley

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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #12 on: Mar 13, 2008, 11:24 AM »
wow! ;D
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #13 on: Mar 13, 2008, 12:30 PM »
Thats Cool!!! I don't think many people get to see one in the wild.
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Offline spudbar

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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #14 on: Mar 13, 2008, 01:43 PM »
Looks like a nice time dorado, great pictures as well.  How thick was the ice, was there any flooding?
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #15 on: Mar 13, 2008, 01:49 PM »
Quote from: BottomDweller on Mar 13, 2008, 11:17 AM
he was probably about 120+ lbs or so

BD they don't get that big, Your over estimating everything as usual.  On Wikipedia it said they get to 20-60lbs. It was probably an elk, or a deer that u saw, or someones dog.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #16 on: Mar 13, 2008, 01:59 PM »
The ice was very solid, at least enough that we never went through the top layer.  Down by the inlet I drilled the holes near open water and the ice was only a foot or so.  By the outlet, the thickness of the ice nearly maxed out the auger, multiple layers of ice and slush--no fun to drill holes!!

The WGFD biologist agreed that these were wolverine tracks.  The tracks were pretty good sized but the distance between them was short, much smaller than the bear and lion tracks I have seen. 

We followed this guys tracks for almost 2 miles, but he covered a lot more ground than we did.  He seemed to be investigating the tallus slopes, and his tracks went right up to a hole we saw a pika come out of...
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #17 on: Mar 13, 2008, 02:22 PM »
Quote from: spudbar on Mar 13, 2008, 01:49 PM
BD they don't get that big, Your over estimating everything as usual.  On Wikipedia it said they get to 20-60lbs. I was probably an elk, or a deer that u saw, or someones dog.

yeah, well, when one is staring you down from 35 yards, they probably look larger than life.  sorry, wikispudbar.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #18 on: Mar 13, 2008, 02:53 PM »
You seem to be scared of everything BD. JB's friend watched a humpack bear all day on Saturday on J Lake, said it was hungry and **censored**y.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #19 on: Mar 13, 2008, 03:07 PM »
wow thats really cool!!! looks like beautiful scenery too
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #20 on: Mar 13, 2008, 09:50 PM »
I saw one up above Dubois about 3 years ago while we were elk hunting.  It was amazing, but of course the Game and Fish denies it and said they are not in this region.
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #21 on: Mar 14, 2008, 06:05 PM »
Nice pics man...looks like a good time!

So does this mean all of BD's fish that he said were 36" are really only about 15? lol
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Re: Wind River Wilderness
« Reply #22 on: Mar 15, 2008, 09:44 AM »
Quote from: Dorado on Mar 13, 2008, 01:59 PM

The WGFD biologist agreed that these were wolverine tracks.  The tracks were pretty good sized but the distance between them was short, much smaller than the bear and lion tracks I have seen. 

We followed this guys tracks for almost 2 miles, but he covered a lot more ground than we did.  He seemed to be investigating the tallus slopes, and his tracks went right up to a hole we saw a pika come out of...

Cool! There is a radio-collared female wolverine in the Bridger Wilderness that the WCS has been trying to catch and re-collar. I have not heard yet if they were successful in the recapture or if they caught any new wolverines. The only one I ever saw was in Alaska running along the coastline ~75 yards from our boat. When it crossed a snow field I knew exactly what it was...
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