I must say in defense of Mr Denny its true. It can be very muddy and we all should be willing to take our boots off at the door. But from then on Bearpaw becomes a little questionable.
My wife and I contacted Dale before the 2003 deer season in our state. We had doe permits for GMU 49 degrees north and called to inquire if he had private land in that unit that we could hunt on. Dale said he did and off we went.
When we received our hunt contract it said the hunt was guided 2 on 1.in all fairness I will tell you that a guided hunt was not what we were looking for nor at any time was it implied other than said contract. I did not question the cotract thinking this is an easy deal and perhaps he had a family member that he was going to send along to point out the private land and good ambush areas.
We arrive in the evening TOOK OFF OUR SHOES and immediately started getting the cold sholder from Dales wife. A guide at the table finally asked who we were and where we would be hunting. 49 degrees north I said. The guide stood up looked at Dales wife and said "we dont have any place in 49 degrees north for them to hunt". As for a guide! Dales son went out in the morning with us showed us the public places we could hunt and from then on we were on our own.
Now I am not going to tell you that we didnt see deer, because we did, lots of them, Turkeys to, all on the private property of Dales neighbors behind no hunting signs.
Now I have hunted deer some 36 years, and I have had fairly good luck getting a deer or elk 9 of the last 10 years. I had never hunted the 49 degrees north area (it was not the tag we had hoped to draw) and thought this was the ebest thing to do, It was not. Dale did begrudgingly offer us another hunt for 2004. We did not accept feeling that it would not be benificial to either party.
Most guided hunts are expensive, ours fortunatly was not. If you have saved up a bundle for that dream of a life time hunt and are hunting in Washington or any place, do your home work, get EVERY detail in writing check web sites like this one. And if you have to hunt around Colville, check out Sherman Creek Outfitters, Wish we would have.
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