Wolf Hunt Reports

[leech~~]

Please post your reports if you got one, heard of a buddy that got one, have numbers of Wolves taken, post pic's. Let's up date this thread thoughout the Hunting and Trapping seasons.

[Sheephead Slayer]

I look foward to pics as well. Just an FYI if your in the east central zone It's closing tomorrow.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/wolf/index.html

[hockeybc69]

Thats just the early season hunt thats closing for the east central zone.

[shortfatguy]

I havnt heard of anyone posting pictures. I think a lot of people are concerned about some wack job coming after them.

[mainbutter]

Anyone else surprised 50 wolves have been harvested already?

[nofishfisherman]

I was a little surprised at first but then I guess it does make sense that if guys have a tag they are most likely in the woods this weekend. I'd expect numbers to drop off throughout the week with probably another spike next weekend.

Its pretty hard to know if these are good numbers or poor numbers without a prior hunting season to compare them to.

[nonteepical]

how many coyotes do you think were registered as wolves

[shortfatguy]

None. I am sure the DNR personnel at the registration station know the difference.

[leech~~]

None. I am sure the DNR personnel at the registration station know the difference.

I think Non-T was saying how many people hunting Wolves may not know what one looks like and brought in a Yot instead? Not that the DNR would register them.

[highlife4me]

You DO NOT have to bring a wolf in to a registration station to register it. One is able to do it over the phone or internet just like deer hunting. But after registering, and the wolf is skinned,the hide must be taken in to a Wildlife Managers office for inspection. This is when we will find out if anybody registered a yote.

[TruthWalleyes]

I hope it turns out that 90% of them turned in were yotes Then they can reopen the wolf season, shoot more yotes, and a few wolves too!!

I missed a yote this weekend.

[nofishfisherman]

I'd like to think most people, especially hunters, can tell the difference between a yote and wolf when seeing them in person. Although I probably give people too much credit.

I had someone at work carrying on about how they saw a wolf over the weekend running around in Burnsville (South Metro). I tried to point out that is substainlly further south then the wolves range and that it is likely a coyote which are fairly common down there. They weren't having any of that idea, they KNEW it was a wolf.

[westb]

You DO NOT have to bring a wolf in to a registration station to register it. One is able to do it over the phone or internet just like deer hunting. But after registering, and the wolf is skinned,the hide must be taken in to a Wildlife Managers office for inspection. This is when we will find out if anybody registered a yote.

Hide and carcass must be presented after the season closes and I bet there will be a few that turn out to be yotes.

[leech~~]

I'd like to think most people, especially hunters, can tell the difference between a yote and wolf when seeing them in person. Although I probably give people too much credit.

I had someone at work carrying on about how they saw a wolf over the weekend running around in Burnsville (South Metro). I tried to point out that is substainlly further south then the wolves range and that it is likely a coyote which are fairly common down there. They weren't having any of that idea, they KNEW it was a wolf.

I have seen some pretty big fluffy looking yots and some pretty small scrawny wolves, add in the excitement of someone having their first ever Wolf tag! Fluffy Coyotes going to hit the ground! Grn-T-it!

[nofishfisherman]

I don't doubt there will be some fluffy yotes tagged as wolves. It is true that there is no way to account for the excitement of potentially having your targeted animal in your sights.

[goblueM]

I'd like to think most people, especially hunters, can tell the difference between a yote and wolf when seeing them in person. Although I probably give people too much credit.

You know, I'd like to think that too, but after seeing how poor a lot of fishermen are at fish ID, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to stuff like that.

[shortfatguy]

You DO NOT have to bring a wolf in to a registration station to register it. One is able to do it over the phone or internet just like deer hunting. But after registering, and the wolf is skinned,the hide must be taken in to a Wildlife Managers office for inspection. This is when we will find out if anybody registered a yote.

Wrong. The hide has to be removed and the whole carcass brought in to have many samples taken. So both the hide and carcass will be inspected at registration by a qualified person.

[shortfatguy]

Most people who got a wolf tag actually live in wolf country. I thought there would be a bunch of people who had never seen a wolf getting drawn. Turns out most are from areas with high wolf populations. International falls area had the highest success rate in the lottery.

[highlife4me]

Inspection does not take place at time of registration. In my haste I forgot to add pelt "and carcass". Inspection is done at wildlife managers office. Read the regulations.

[lichen fox]

I guess this means the Alaska expert was off a bit on his estimations about MN early season harvest...we're at 70 right now and I "think" his prediction was that we'd be lucky if we got 40 ??...don't remember the exact number off the earlier discussions....But keep it goin MN !!

[monstermoose78]

agreed get some more!

[hockeybc69]

When do we get to see pics and a report of someone that actually got a wolf???

[Cheetah]

Hockey, there is a photo in the Star Tribune yesterday. Looks like the article is on their HSOforum too.

[Jameson]

Coolest pic I've seen in a long time. Some of my relatives have old family photos of the great uncles and other oldtimers with their deer hunt kills. Some of them had wolves hanging from the pole just like this photo.

[hockeybc69]

I had to look twice.

dang wolf darn near as big as the deer!!!!