Alcova/Leo/Miracle Mile Area

Wiszard · Feb 1, 2008

Hows the rain/snow been in this area?

Steve

cmiddleton · Feb 7, 2008

good snow but not excessive.

Willy_P · Feb 7, 2008

Any of you all camped in that area?? I'm thinking of staying a few nights there ( Alcova ) this fall if it is clean good showers etc. If I draw the tag I want I am planning on a week on a over at Douglas bowhunting antelope then mountain bow hunting mulies and then clean up, regroup and resupply, then go back up the mountain for the gun opener for deer again for maybe 5 to 7 days. Unless I'm extremely lucky and arrow a buck. Then I'll be headed back through Douglas to make an antelope meat stop and on back home. I think a couple weeks living out of tents will be enough. The thought that I'll live out of them for a month if I have to is , well, I'll be ready to put up with the wife/kids/grandkids again for a while after that.

Wiszard · Feb 11, 2008

Sounds like a fun trip. You should probably throw your fishing rods in with the rest of your gear and catch some trout while your over there.

Steve

Willy_P · Feb 12, 2008

I might do that but I'm pretty trout illiterate . I also don't want any excuses not to be in the field the majority of the time. We'll have to see. I have a lot of time to make up my mind on what to take. Let's hope the F&G Dept. lets me take the trip by sending me tags. I may do the deer end of the trip rather I get a tag or not and just roll over to G and H and look some land over for a week or so.

Wiszard · Feb 12, 2008

I'm not a big trout fisherman either but whenever we go to hunt that area, we catch fish as well. I understand theres walleye in those reserviors as well. Never have fished for those. Just a thought. Have fun.

Steve

Willy_P · Feb 12, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Feb-12-08 AT 03:24PM (MST)[p]Lake Erie is a 2 hour drive for me, I got a lot of walleye and smallmouth bass fishing hours under my belt. I do ok on them. As far as trout go, I spent a week hip deep in an icy river in N. Mich. trying to get a steelhead to the bank without breaking it off and that is it. You're winning me over though ;-)

Wiszard, have you stayed up there in the park before ( Alcova )? or over at Bennets?? I am wondering how bad I am going to be hit by the wind. I understand there are a few windbreaks at some sites there but I know what a good WY blow is like and I don't think either of my little tents will take it. My full size tent will but if I am only planning a day or so there I hate to pound 20 some stakes in the ground and then pull them out a day later.

Wiszard · Feb 12, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-08 AT 01:06AM (MST)[p]I have never tent camped near Alcova. We generally hunt on private property right in Leo about a 30 minute drive South of Alcova. It does get windy but I think as long as you are not out in flats you should be fine.

Steve

Willy_P · Feb 13, 2008

Thanks Steve. I am not as familiar up towards Casper in that area as I am down near Bairoil. That wind up there at Casper gets on the tough side some years!! Without knowing how protected it is there at Alcova I just wondered what would be in store for me.

Wiszard · Feb 13, 2008

Honestly Willy_P...I think anywhere you go in Wyoming will be windy!!! It's so damn flat theres nothing to slow it down. Good Luck.

Steve

HunterScout · Mar 29, 2008

Use a dome tent, they handle the wind better.

Some places in Wyoming use a logging chain for a wind sock. When the links on the end of the chain start to snap off the natives stay inside.