Monday's Hunt. 3-28-16

[Cajun]

  Went Monday & the dogs rigged. We turned out Clyde & Velvet. They went a couple hundred yards & bayed. We tried to get in but the tide was out & we could not get closer then about 20 feet to the bank. Finally my Grandson Ethan waded in with the bulldog & started to them only to have the hog break so he came back to the boat. The dogs ran another 15 minutes or so & bayed up. Still could not get close to them & the hog ended up breaking again. A hour later when they were crossing some water by shore I called them in. They waded all the way to the boat.
  Went down to some deeper canals & got a good strike. Turned out & the dogs jumped and the race was on. The dogs bayed about 70 yards off the bank & we sent the bulldog. By the time I got there they had the hog down & the bulldog off. About a 170# boar.
  Went to a different area & got another good strike & we turned out. We started hearing pigs squeal & started in. By the time we got there, we found two pig Mcnuggents & the dogs had relayed out. We went back to the boat & in a few minutes heard them bayed. Walked in & caught about a 175# sow. Since it was hard to get around, we called it a day. Only 10:30 am so we got home early. My Grandsons Ethan & Jake are sure making some hands.

[spazhogdog]

Sounds like a good hunt

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[parker49]

them hogs sure look ruff ...is that marsh hard  on the hogs ?

[Cajun]

Parker, when you look out over the marsh, you would swear nothing could live out there but nutrias, coons or ducks but it is a haven for wildlife. Deer, hogs coyotes, rabbits, alligators, you name it all thrive out there. There are very few oak trees which dispels the notion that deer  or hogs have to have Mast to survive. The hogs do get a little thin Dec. thru Feb. but start putting weight back on in latter March when things start greening up. It is almost sub tropical out there & this year I do not believe they even had a frost down there. The hogs also don't get as big as they do on higher ground where they have more to eat but they survive out there very nicely. There is a grass that grows out there, we call it a 3 corner grass & the hogs love it. It is my favorite place to hunt & what I call the easiest hog hunting I do. On my side of the lake you have a lot of cutover & briar thickets you have to go thru to get to the bay. The only thing that makes it tough is the tide & it limits you to where you can hunt.

[parker49]

I know boys that hunt here in the marsh and the hogs are real fat but its feral hogs ....the pics I've seen of the hogs  down your  way have  been more Russian looking and  poorer looking  may  just been the pics  I've seen ......your right hogs and  deer  don't need acorns  to do well .....

[Cajun]

If you hunt down there during the warmer months, the hogs will be pretty fat but I normally hang it up in the marsh in early april. Gators are out & if you hunt down there it is just a matter of time & you will lose a dog. Besides the gnats & mosquitos will carry you off.

[justincorbell]

^ those reasons plus the nut deep mud in our parts are why i stay my bog arse in the pine trees

[justincorbell]

Big* ....plus the God forsaken snakes

[parker49]

they invite me all the time to go in the marsh ...  I use  to duck hunt in the marsh years ago hahahaha ....  i'll stay on these sand ridges in this river bottom to hog hunt ....

[Pwilson_10]

I would love to do it some day as long as there no damn gnats and mosquitos out cuz I will stay in the damn truck I hate them so bad I spray my self down with off and I think that's when they call there freinds


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[Cajun]

MAN, Y'all sound like a bunch of wussie Deer hunters. lol  The marsh we hunt is not bad. it has a pretty solid bottom. I have been in marshes where you sink to your waist with every step. Once the dogs caught a sow in a wet marsh & it took us a hour to go 200 yards. Not fun. The Gnats are bad in the spring. the snakes don't bother me. As long as you don't look down, you will never see them. haha. The gators don't bother me either but I really like my dogs to much to turn them into Lizard food. What generally happens is the hog will swim a bayou & the gators always come check out what makes all the splashing & about the time the gators get there, here comes the dogs. So we do go to higher ground when it warms up.

[parker49]

 call me what  you want hahaha   ....  don't know if  its the same  gnats  but they bad  here at  times and skeeters  is about to get ruff here all this  backwater  has  em comeing out the grass in clouds .....  we  goin in the morning if it ain't rain'n .....got a  few  real good  boarhog pictures on camera's if we don't jump any smaller  ones ....

[Judge peel]

Good hogs good dogs and good kids I bet you was grinning like a possum in a barrel


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