Saturday March 2, TDHA weekend, Cward, TShelly, Marshall, Jason and I hunted one of my deer leases and we tied 24 hogs, but only 2 were over 200 lbs. So we sorted out 2 more that were in the 150 range for our 4 head for the contest before we went home. We get to Halletsville to weighin, one of the smaller ones had a broke leg and would not walk so we could only weigh in 3 head, 217, 214, 152 =583.
We took off the next week and a half until spring break, I think the dogs wanted the rest as much as we did.
On that Wednesday, March 13, I took some friends and hunted one of there leases we haven't been to in years . The dogs bayed in a palmetto flat, as I'm tracking to them I see Goose is rolling off already 300yds away from Boogie, Ruby and Jett that had 150lbs sow stretched! We tie her and they trail the same hog Goose is running, they swim across a 50yd wide creek and .75 mile way up in a plantation to where Goose is bayed, as soon as Ruby, Boogie and Jett get there he breaks .75 mile back down across that creek again and then another .5 mile then swims the Trinity River and Ruby stops him 200 yds from the bank on the other side. We were prepared for this, so we jump in the boat go over and catch him, he was 175lbs bo hog. We hauled that track star back across the river and turned him loose to get fat off the land, after we lightened his rear end by cutting his nuts out, or as I call it, we cut his high gear out!
Thursday, March 14, I got to go to another friends 4,000 acre lease that hasn't been hunted this year. The CWard gang had some friends down from Pennsylvania so they joined me, Marshall, Nick and Robert plus we had 8 kids under 16 years old. We tied 7 hogs that day, highlighted by a couple barrs, they weighed 210 and 265!
Saturday, March 16, TWilbanks and JaredH came down and I took them to my lease, he's already posted that hunt, a couple good boars and a Barr that went 205 were the highlight of that day, that lease has produced 36 hogs in two days of hunting!
Then this past Saturday, March 23, we got invited to a new 1200 acre ranch here in Huntsville that hasn't been dogged this year. Mike took Marshall, Andrew and I, and we turned loose about 8am the dogs went about .5 mile bayed a group and we caught 3 sows within 100yds, dogs roll 450 yds we get there they got 150-175lbs bo hog backed up in a creek, we catch him and while we are dragging him up the bank Ruby slips up a hill on the other side of the creek behind a feeder and is bayed at 250yds, Jett goes to her the hog breaks and comes straight to us within 100yds. Turn the cd loose and done. It ended up being a big Barr, 31hrs later when we butchered him he weighed 320. I texted TShelly at this point with 5 tied and it's only 8:51am, and he is disgusted because he couldn't go, he has a real job now!
We kill 3 more shoats and tie another sow and a 200-225 bo hog and call it a day at 11:30am with 10 head.
So that's five hunts in March so far, 55 hogs caught, with 4 being barrs over 200! I lost count with how many but I'm sure we've cut enough nuts this month to fill a five gallon bucket, because that's what the leases wanted us to do, work the boars and take out the sows!
