What a wonderful day...I saw him today! For two weeks I have been trying to figure him out. He disappeared from one set of cameras and showed up on another. I found him on multiple cameras today...In the daylight. He had been circling, chasing does, his tracks told the story. Finally I crossed REALLY fresh tracks. I could smell him. I followed him into the oldgrowth. I let the woods quiet around me. I began to call, quietly. During the third calling set, I saw antlers floating though the timber, his body finally appeared. He bounced in my direction. My God it was going to happen. I took aim down the shooting lane, it would be about a 60 yard shot. Just shy of the open lane he stopped. He spun his head back and forth, I could just see the antler tips. He would look at me and then back to his doe on the stream bank some 100 yards distant. I gently called. He stared in my direction. Then he spun and returned to his doe, protected by the terrain and fallen logs. He paused behind a downed log looking one last time in my direction, I could see half of his head. I caught glimpses of them and his antlers as he perused her through the ancient forest. All fell quiet, just the stream and a distant raven. Darn! It had been so close. I was elated though. I had saw him. The probability of trying to figure out one of the Sitka bucks and finding him is slim. I will be back...this game of cat an mouse will continue.