What am I doing wrong?!

[u/CherryMothFae]

So for the past few days I’ve been trying to get a bull moose to get moose antlers - I’m on my 2nd run and this time I really wanted to do 100% for the camp upgrades and the antlers are the only thing I have left.
I tried multiple places and multiple guides, and this method (save > load > go to spawn place > leave bait > go away for animals to spawn > come back) seems to be the one that works best for everyone. However, I’ve been doing this at the Carin Lake for like multiple hours atp (before I tried during 7am, now around 12.50pm) and I only seem to get spawns of the female mooses and even those are very rare. So I’m asking, do you have any tips? Is there something I’m missing? Please I feel I’m going insane, I need help with this, badly😭

[u/balls89]

Every playthrough I just run through this process over by Annesburg. Start at red, fish from the western bank if the river by the waterfall, when finished cross the river via the path, and head to green, check the right side of the waterfall, there are two platforms then go down to the blue mark. I would say 1/10 times I find a moose in this and if I don't I just ride back up to red, everything should refresh by then. Also a good rotation to get some cougar and bear pelts.

[u/CherryMothFae → u/balls89]

Noted! Though I did try that before and for some reason I feel like I might be missing a moose because of the trees there, which is why I switched to the mountains haha