Our season is actually 3.5 months long, the middle of October to the first weekend in February. It does run in conjunction with our bow and rifle seasons, and you can use a gut pile from a legally harvested deer as bait...but my hunters have a 6 hour drive up here and the time they can be here usually only gives me a 3-4 day window to work with.

Lucky enough for me, we do have an abundance of wolves. They've been causing a lot of problems with livestock and at least a dozen bear hounds have been killed.

I'll spend the next couple weeks playing with calls and scents, maybe get an idea of what works.

I'm very sorry to hear about your dog. Good luck with your hunt.