Now these are wolves!

Right Coppertop???

Supposedly killed (legally) near Pinedale and Big Piney, Wymoming (first 2 of 5 wolves) after the season for wolves opened up.

Yeah! On steriods! Those things are absolutely huge!

Those are some big puppies…wow

How big do you think they will go, 200 lbs? Id hate to see a pack of that size infront of me during a cold winter, its not all fur.

Yes, there is a good chance those are wolves.

Heck, they almost look like some prehistoric wolves. Dang.

They obviously didn’t use their sleds to run those bad boys down! WOW!!

Coyote!

Are you sure they aren’t mule deer?…..

Those are some big boys, but I’m sure there’s a lot of fur on them too.

See the thing is that those are coyotes…. Its just two little people holding them up.

And those are like 80cc snowmobiles….

see those are coyotes..

nope… those are gray fox… really big ones

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Right Coppertop???

Supposedly killed (legally) near Pinedale and Big Piney, Wymoming (first 2 of 5 wolves) after the season for wolves opened up.

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I got the same email Brad, but mine looks like they had a good day ice fishing also!

The one on the right looks like my dog! Look, it has a colar on it!

yum. Wolf and gill. Excellent surf & turf combo!

They are some very nice looking wolves
They only thing I slightly disagree with about it is the open season in Wyoming. Last I heard Wyoming was still not giving in to an open season for wolves, while Montana and Idaho were very close to making it a reality. But,then Obama put a freeze on ever4ything Bush did the last 2 weeks and takingthe wolves of the Endangered List was one of the things that were froze
IMO, wolves in every state should have a season on them

Goodness. They’re at least 200lbs+.

Very interesting about the wolf season in Wyoming. But those are HUGE wolves!

Back on the season. When I went to Wyoming the first of May last year we stopped just this side of the Big Horns to get our fishing and small game license. Someone asked if small game included wolves and the guy behind the counter said yes. Caught off guard we looked at each kind of confused. We asked again and the guy looked up totally serious and said yes you can kill a wolf with this permit. Never gave it no more thought. We get to the ranchers place and were chatting when he asked if we got our small game license. Of course we said yes. One of the guys asked him about wolves. He said if we saw a wolf and didn’t kill it we’d get chased off the farm. later he did tell us he hasn’t seen a live wolf in that area for several years and we didn’t the time we were there either.

But until now I never questioned it. The way the locals talked it was completely legal to kill a wolf there. Maybe not? Heck we never even saw a dang coyote the whole time but we did manage to put a small dent in the scraggly rabbit population.

Highly doubt it’s legal, but I don’t know for sure.

I lived out there for awhile, and the local attitude towards wolves in general was even worse there than in Northern MN. Some of which, with all the remote ranching that’s done out there was warranted. Much of it wasn’t.

I did a little light guiding out there for trout fishermen near Yellowstone, and at the bar after a tough day of fishing, I had the local RMEF chapter president sit down and tell me that the poor fishing that summer was because of the wolves. He explained that the wolves eat ALL of the elk, which to someone who’s been to Yellowstone is an absolute joke; they’re everywhere. He connected the dots by inferring that with no elk left to eat the streamside vegetation, it grew rampant and sucked much of the water out of the river. The trout then were distressed and didn’t bite as well because there wasn’t much water in the rivers.

Love ’em or hate ’em, wolves can’t be blamed for poor fishing, a bad day, or the recent economic downturn.

Joel