Interesting. I have seen good sign and good deer but I don’t sit, I still hunt and stalk public land. I walked over six miles on day one and filled my tag. Only one set of coyote tracks and zero wolf. I put on 150+ miles cruising the back woods after that the next day and only seen eight trucks in the woods. Definitely not the people hunting as there was back in the eighties. People don’t make the trip anymore and I honestly don’t blame them. They can take the money they would spend in gas,food,lodging etc and lease a piece of farm land and have almost a sure thing close to home. The UP doesn’t have the deer numbers it once did and yes there’s a wolf or two but , for me, my heart is in the “big woods” and I like getting my deer on my feet and not my ass.
