Message #461327

[Cajun]

The very first year Boggue Chitto was opened to hog hunters Jimmy Jones & myself went. we got into a little herd & caught 3 sows 175#-200# & 3 shoats. My two curs rolled out at 10:00. We carried the shoats to the boat & I took a reading.(telemetry) they were probably a mile in. Jimmy said he was going to go get a 3 wheeler to bring the sows out & I stayed on the bank. 2 hours later he is back with his brothers & 3 wheel barrows. I told him, we did not need the hogs that bad & lets go turn them loose. Bottum line, it took us until 4:00 pm to get the hogs out. When we got back to the boat I took a another reading. Same place. We waited until dark, around 5;30 & decided to leave them & come hunt the next morning.
  we came back the next morning with some buddies & Jimmy wanted to go ck. a sandbar that this fisherman had told him he saw some hogs on. Russel(his brother) & a couple of others & I went to where we had put the dogs out the day before, expecting them to be there but they were not. Took a reading, same place.
  Went & rounded up Jimmy & the others & picked the closest point in & started hunting our way to them. About halfway there we caught two sows around 120# $ 2 lil pigs. I thought I heard dogs barking & we got the others shut up & sure enough, we could hear them bayed. We started to them & went in & caught about a 175# sow. They must have chewed her ears off early & then could not hold her, but where her ears had been was already scabbed over. It was 11:00 am, 25 hours after they had left on that sow.
 You would have thought they would be exhausted but on the way out, we got into a herd that was rattling so loud, wwe could not hardly hear the dogs bayed. I dont know how many we caught, cause Todd & I were just turning them loose as fast as the dogs were catching them. We broght out at least 8 hogs in the 100-150# range & turned loose at least that many. Took us all day to get them out.