Last Saturday took a friend and dad to cover some miles in search of some steel. Made it down the first few runs with nothing to show but did come across a set of good-sized kitty tracks. They looked to be a couple of days old but didn't think too much of it (fourth set I've seen this season).

Fished downstream a couple more hours and decided to sit down along a high bank hole for some lunch. Two minutes into my sandwich we look upstream and 60 yards where we just waded through a cougar jumps in and starts crossing towards our side. We fumbled for our cameras and managed this short clip:

Cougar

I've had two other run ins before but this was a first on film.

With a little adrenaline going we pushed downstream to find some elk on the hillside making an odd grunting noise. A couple of minutes later the small herd of elk were sprinting full tilt around the bend in the river where we couldn't quite see. Obviously the cat was in full stalk mode. Pretty cool to witness a full on predator-prey scenario play out.