My brother and I were on a December elk hunt in the breaks around the North Fork of the Clearwater, trying to get above snow line and hunt. It was rather too warm most of the area had no snow and only the ridges had some white stuff.

A couple guys in our camp were road hunting and got down to where Breakfast Creek flows into the reservoir. They stopped at a bridge so one of them could take a whizz ... the guy looked down and saw two bucks drowned and frozen into thin ice. He cut the heads and brought them back to camp.

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Talk about losing your head over a piece of tail. It wasn't OUR lucky hunt either.

jn