EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

i know when its summer time down here we dont hog hunt near as much because its so hot!!! so what else do you guys do?? i bowfish!!!
i am real big into bowfishing and rod and reel fishing..

Monticello bowfishing in Feb. Powerplant lake so fish spawn twice a year! (date on camera is wrong)
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LOOK HOW BIG THIS SHAD IS!!! I SHOT IT WHILE WE WERE DRIVING SUCH A LUCKY SHOT LOL...
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Florida Bass- Pat Mayse Lake 7lbs 2 oz.....
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Black Bass- Pat Mayse Lake 6 lbs 12 oz.....
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Croppy i caught during a bass tourny lol
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Grass Carp shot at Pine Creek spillway
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Horseshoe Lake bowfishing...slow night
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We shot a 65lb grass carp out of horseshoe this weekend i will upload the pic asap

Nice pics, I usually bowfish, bassfish, do a little offroadin, and round up reptiles, mostly snakes for summer camp displays, but lately all my time is devoted to doggin, so in the off season I'm workin and trainin dogs.

i hear ya but we only bowfish at night so i always have time for that lol my wife always asks me if im going to divorce her for one of my dogs or for a fish! lol

i do a lot of firearms shooting (pistol and long range mostly), gonna try my hand at some F-Class shoots, bowhunting and 3D shoots.  i use to do a little field archery as well. other than that i used to do a lot of backpacking in Colorado and New Mexico, but i haven't done that in years.

well i usually slow up alot on hog doggin in the summer , i will hit a few easy places on a cool night .
 i train alot of horses so im usually riding horses all summer the kids are out of school and we love to go camping with our horses.

 the end of july for the past 5 years i have taken my horses and mules to colorado and stayed in the mountians for a few days,,,  well it started out jast a few days then it turned into 2 weeks the last few times i have gone.

 i pack in my dutch oven and i could stay up in those mountians till snow starts falling.

i have a small saddle shop doing all kinds of repair (mostly my own stuff), and making stuff when it gets hot.

 i have a big smoker and i have 2 gathering a year working cattle and castrating horses ,i have a few broodmares and have cut my own horses for about 25 yrs.

 if im not hunting im helping someone work cattle or riding colts.

SUMMER MEANS I NEED TO TWIST ME UP A NEW BOW STRING FLETCH UP SOME WOODIES, CAUSE ITS TIME TO HIT THE TRADITIONAL ARCHERY 3D RANGES/ TOURNEYS.

bow fishing is a big deal here in my family too( we shot at and missed a lot of snakes this last weekend at proctor lake-but shot lots of carp and gar)  we do alot of hog hunting in the summer in the early morning hours before to hot, i usually have hunters at least twice a month even hot months- i have a pasture that some hunters just come and hunt out of blinds also  so anyways we do alot of hunting  and fishing for stripers still just have to work around the heat! when my wife says AINT IT TO HOT TO GO------(((( I ALWAYS SAY ITS NEVER TO HOT OR COLD  BECAUSE EVERY HUNT OR FISH TRIP YOU MISS   IS JUST ANOTHER HUNT OR FISHING TRIP YOU CANT EVER GET BACK HAHAHA)))) SO KEEP FISHING  DOGGIN OR WHAT EVER YOU DO  AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

where abouts are you from boxr?

cross plains texas about 43 miles east of abilene or 33 miles north of brownwood

oh i c.. good ways from here.. im in paris about 2 hr NE of dallas! yall ever get ahold of any alligator gar down there?

we do small ones maybe 24 inches  but my nephews in livingston texas  has the lake record for gar  cant remember how big but its as big as a man is tall

that is awesome! my uncle and a few of his buds shot a 198 lber out of sam rayburn that was almost 8ft long! they got it mounted and its in one of the archery stores here in town ha.. we have been trying to get down to lock and key dam where the trinity river comes out of lake livingston.. thats where "Gar Guys" shot there bowfishin video!

Trinity is full of em', we shot most of our bigger ones in harmon's creek, and along the stretch of the main channel in that general area.

i sure wish we were closer! its a good 5 hr haul for us to go down there! but trinity runs through dallas and its only about 2 hours away but i never hear of anyone up that way gettin any big gator gars.

I'm not sure if the bigger ones get up that far north, its kinda far from the breeding area, and salt water, but I had some buddies that came down from mississippi and shot a good un' further north, I think it was the dallas area..

well i know there up there my buddys dad catches them on rod and reel in there but i have no clue where a boat ramp would be or anything i guess i could look into it...

yea i dont know either! they all go behind the dam at livingston somewhere in there  i dont remember where you get in but they also catch catfish unbelievable size too they have a big barge they use for the catfishing trips  they are some lucky people  thats all they do fish and hunt-- when i was a kid they had hog dogs-coyote dogs- squirrel dogs-cats dogs-coon dogs- cat dogs- and deer dogs -they had  different dogs for different animals  but they also use to could hunt anywhere they wanted but all the city folks have moved there and dont want anyone on there anymore!  so they have a big lease around livingston area  that they still do hunts on  you cant deer hunt with hounds any more and they are in their 60s now  so their boys have almost taken over the business things have changed 99% there now they use to sell all the coons- squirrls-and fish they didnt want to help out but there aint to many old timy folks left- I GUESS THATS PROGRESS  HAHA  well anyways they were raised in a little town 35 miles north of livingston called Moscow,texas  well enough rambling   good BSing with yall  good luck and good hunting

That last post made me laugh. Several years back had a buddy give me a name and a number of a guided fishing trip on livingston. Mind U I have never been on a guided anything. (I still believe old sparkplugs make the best fishin weights) Anyhoo I decide to go took my wife and my dad. We get there 2 hour drive mind u, pay our money and get on a fishing barge. The guys "guiding" us get on the top and we get on the bottom. We get just as close to the damn as u can legally and the guys cast to the damn. I do have to say their casting abilities could have been an olympic event. Anyways it worked like this they cast u wait they holler  fish on and u reel it in. I reeled and reeled and reeled and reeled it was a BIG BAD mama jamma! A whole flippin 5 lb catfish. Moral of the story even a shad feels like moby dick when u have to reel him in 2 miles and man I wish i had those guys jobs! I just know they were up there laughing like crazy drinking a cold beer getting to catch all them fish and us paying them money while we did all the grunt work.

well they only charge $100 a day and I charge $150 a day for a half day  you are guaranteed your limit or you dont pay   YOU AINT GUARANTEED NOTHING WITH ME BUT FISHING  they catch 20 and up cats all the time  the reason they do the casting  i never seen anyone else in the world cast that far but them  i figure its worth the $100 to have a boat on the water furnished  I KNOW I WONT GET MY BOAT OUT FOR THAT  HAHA any ways thats the way i see it ADIOS GOOD HUNTING

Camping
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Hiking
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Fishing
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Spearfishing
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Stone crab diving
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Gator hunting
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Bowfishing
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If I can be outdoors, I'll probably like it.

DAMN NICE PICS  KEEP HUNTING AND FISHING!!!!!!

Boxr, do you know the names of the people that live in Moscow?

I live in moscow and fish quite a bit below the dam in livingston

nice pics! keep em coming! you use a crossbow to bowfish? oh and i also like playing golf! we play every friday after work!

Ya, I set the crossbow up for the gator hunting and then just started using it for shooting tilapia occasionaly.

Little of everything here but mostly getting ready for deer season, i shot a 6' 10" gator gar here by the house on the trinity i am just south of dallas, there is aALOT of big gars here but just finding places to access is the hard part, there is a boat launch just outside of centerville tx on hwy 7 that looks perty good. I rather catch em though ;) ;D

hmm... centerville is ALOT closer than livingston lol.. we might make that trip!

oh yeah i got a few more pics!

65lb grass carp outta horseshoe lake(small horseshoe shaped lake that the red river feeds)
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couple buffalo about 20-25 lbs a piece
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couple needle nose gar
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I like to play golf quite a bit and probably gonna start getting pretty big into varmint hunting in competitions january thru march, lots of fun and money to be made if your any count. So anybody from the Wichita Falls area that don't hunt their yotes or cats, let me know I can always use more coyote land. haha

I do a LOT of rifle hunting.  Summer time is best for hitting the rice fields and water holes.  I have made quite a few contacts in the firearms industry over the years and get pictures of gear (guns & ammo) with dead hogs for advertising for these companies......I have a PASSION for rifles.

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Also have 2 small children who I devote a lot of time to and try to include them in as many hunting adventures as possible.

ain't that a motley crew.... lmao

We were soaked after riding around for 3 hours shooting hogs out of the rice fields in the rain......WAS WORTH GETTING WET! ;)

I like too hunt deer alot and spend lots of time getting ready for deer season, love to trap I trap bobcats coyots racoons and other critters and i skin them and sell the pelts too a fur buyer out of San Angelo tx, also love camping, fishing, predator hunting, and just pretty much anything in the outdoors.

i bet it was.....ya need you one of those auto lead flingers.  the damage that could be done with 3round burst would be pretty sweet.  you could lay em down with something like that.

When they're out in the middle of the rice and runnin in a circle the 20 & 30 round magazines empty pretty fast.......When huntin rice it is quantity of rounds down range rather than quality.....All it takes is that one pig to realize what direction the woods is and you only got a few seconds......gotta start spittin lead and adjust from there...... ;D

i know where ya comin from.... that's were the full auto comes into play ;D  one of these days i'll fork over the cash for the license.  man, the hogs you could lay down with one in 5.56. 

I FISH AND RODEO AND GO 2 SOME BARREL RACES ON THE SIDE I GO ROPE STEERS ON THURDAY NIGHTS RIDE COLTS DURING THE WEEK WORK COWS WITH MY FRIENDS WHEN I GET A CHANCE. AND RUN MY DOGS WHEN ITS A FULL MOON AND LATE AT NIGHT THE HUNTING IS GOOD THEN AND I DONT NEED FLASH LIGHTS AND ITS COOLER

where is that photo of the mountain

Coon hunting w/ my coon dogs dogs,terrier work w/ the terriers ....some protection work and training when I have the time. Fishing both fresh and salt. Spending time w/ my almost 2 y/o daughter and keeping my 16 y/o son in line  :D