North Central Idaho along the Clearwater river from Orofino to Kooskia. Great river, sea run steelhead and Salmon, small mouth bass, and many blue ribbon trout streams full of cut throat nearby. There are several Reservoirs for Bass and Kokanee, and the Salmon and Snake rivers are within an hour with more steelhead, salmon, bass, trout, cat fish, sturgeon.
We are next to the largest chunks of public ground in the lower 48 with Elk, Mule deer, whitetail, moose, sheep, mountain goats, cougar, black bear, turkeys, pheasants, chuckers, huns, quail, grouse, ducks, geese, and more. A couple hour drive down south gets you into antelope and sage grouse in the high deserts. It would take a lifetime to explore this area, lots of year round opportunities and lack of crowds. Big game starts in august with depredation hunts and goes to the end of December with muzzleloader hunts, so with the right tags and gear you have 1/3 of the year to big game hunt. You can add 2 more months of bear to that # in the spring, and lion in jan and feb.
Other states may be better at any one species, but none combine them all in an area along with the fishing like the Clearwater area of north central Idaho does.
