Well first DeKuma... good luck! Things are so dry out there that you need to find the watering holes... we saw (during archery season) that the animals had all changed their normal patterns... so look for the water!!

If you want to go down to the Winston Creek area and are willing to walk (in and out - with an animal)... I would suggest that you head south past Winston on the Salmon Creek Rd until the 3000 road (about the 3rd left) take this road to "Camp 9" it is a main (dirt road) intersection, take a right stay on that road (stay to the left), you will come to a gate. Park and start walking... you are in a animal rich area... You will be walking into the Devils Creek drainage. If you go about 1.5 to 2 miles you will be right down in the creek bottoms.

Keep your eyes open! Good Animal NUMBERS!

Good Luck!

I have had several long (sometimes heated) conversations with Weyerhaeuser and WDFW people regarding gate closure. I always question and point out the stupidity of blaming hunters (of any type/method) for the major trash problem. I ask and say that in all the time that I spend out in the woods that I have never seen hunters with refrigerators, satellite dishes, cars, TV's in the back of their trucks just looking for someplace to dump them on there land.

One positive aspect to the closures is it does reduce the number of hunters in an area. It reduces the cases of stocking up on an deer or herd of elk and then have 5 trucks come driving (like a bat out of hell) down yelling and running at the animals that you have been stocking all morning.

Sorry about the rant... GOOD LUCK ... Let me know how it goes.

Shoot Straight!