5-Day Lodge Based Bear Hunts:

The hunt: We have had 100% shot opportunity for several years and usually have about 75% color phase bears. The days start with waking up whenever you want and having either a hot breakfast or continental type breakfast, depending on the day’s hunt plans. Then it’s up to you – you can hunt all day or break it up with nearby trout fishing, local hot springs, and scenic drives. Lots of bears hit baits in late morning and early afternoon, even when it’s hot outside. We even attract the big traveling bears with good strong scents, so we tend to harvest lots of bears we’ve never had on camera before. Movement on baits is cut down in the rain, and always best the last two hours, but in my 17 years experience doing this, my clients have killed as many big bears on baits between 5-8 am and 2-6 pm as they have in the last two hours of daylight. Lots of 11am-2pm bears as well. Just like any other hunting, you’ve got to spend time in the same general area as the bear to have an encounter; so I encourage hunters to sit as many hours of the day as they can. If you want to wake up early and sneak in at daylight and sit for a few hours and come out for lunch and a nap and go in in the evening, you can. There’s really no right or wrong way, but the more hours you spend at our baits the better the odds. We have trail cameras on every bait, so we will tell you what we think is best, but we also want you to have a good, relaxing time and sometimes 12 hours a day in a blind isn’t some guys’ idea of a good time. 

We use almost all naturally built ground blinds, but we do have a few tree stands. Our setups always favor the normal wind patterns, always put the sun in your favor, and are very well built and placed from 20-120 yards, most being 30-50 yards. The steepness and thickness of the forest here usually prohibits us from seeing a bait much further away than that. We take you on side by side or truck to a location near your bait, then we walk you into blinds and dump fresh bait and scent each time. I have some easy-to-walk-to baits for disabled hunters and some hard, long walks to baits, to accommodate all types of hunters. We leave you with a radio so you can call us when you shoot a bear or are ready to be picked up. 

Sometimes we have to skin the bear on the mountain but we get most of them out whole and skin them at camp. Taking the bear meat is not required in Idaho, but we will gladly quarter your bear and pull backstraps if you wish. We hang the hide overnight to cool thoroughly and then you can take it to a check in station about 20 miles away. After it’s checked we have freezers to freeze it solid for your journey home, or we can deliver it to our long-time trusted taxidermist for you.

Accommodations:
   •  Lodge based 5-day hunts. Meals included.
Price: 
   • $3,500 bait hunt
   • $4,500 hound hunt
   • $8,500 guaranteed 6' color phase bear

Cougar hunts are in the same area. I’ve been 100% on them for years as well.
They are $5500 for 7 day hunt with no meals and lodging. $7500 with meals and lodging. If you want to make it a combo hunt for wolves, for an additional $1500.

Elk and deer are all same price and same logistics. It’s going to be a lodge based hunt. BUT I can also pack guys into a camp if they want. Doesn’t change the price. BESIDES the 3 guides, there will be at least five spotters that live on the mountain. They only get a small salary and then paid by what they find and the guides kill.

So every hunter has multiple people looking for him. By doing this, I’m hoping to make them 85-100% success hunts on 260-300” bulls and 150”+ bucks. Trophy potential on deer is unlimited, I’ve seen monsters over 200” here. Biggest elk I’ve seen is around 350” and biggest harvested by previous outfitter was in 330’s.

Im also hoping to make them successful within 5 days but starting out as 7 day hunt. If a spotter finds animals remote, then the guide will take hunters and mules and gear and go hunt them and stay a night or two on the mountain. We will provide everything to keep them comfortable

Will be nice lightweight tents and wood stoves not big heavy wall tents.
Everything on the mules will be portable so the hunt will be mobile and effective.
You have to get $9500, that’s 2x1, for 1x1 Add $2,500