If you've got the legs, I've seen some very nice bulls back in Long Branch, always when I have a cow tag of course haha. There is a big ridge that divides Marshall Creek and Long Branch Creek but you can only access it from the LB side. I like to start up from the ranger station that is about halfway between Sargents and the end of the road. There is a trail that starts out from where you park going East. Get up on that and then work your way due south on either side of the ridgeline and there is a lot of good elk habitat. Lots of those nice hidden meadows with some water. Go figure I have hardly ever seen people back there, they always hunt Long Branch and west, or they hunt Marshal and east.
