Lake Mead

[Surfswest]

Just booked a 5 day house boat trip with a bunch of friends to Lake Mead next month. Just curious if anyone knows if there are any pigs around the lake or if anyone has hunted this area before. Any info would greatly help.

Frosty

 

[superduty]

I've hear stories of pigs running around the launch ramps from some river buddies but I don't know if they were at Mead or not. I would be very carefull since Mead and allot of the sorounding areas is part of the National Parks.

 

[easymoney]

The only pigs I've ever seen in that area, were on ski boats with beers in their hands, especially at spring break...

 

[Speckmisser]

Easy, those are the same pigs I saw there last time I visited too. Lots of them, but I think the season is technically closed.

 

[BOWUNTR]

The pigs (not Javalina) are down near Topoc on the Az side. Never herd of hogs on Lake Mead. It's a possibility because I don't know everything, I think. Ed F

 

[easymoney]

Mr. misser, I should have said the "real pigs" only come out after mass quantities of beer... And I don't think there any open season on them, except with a camera. Isn't that where they film "girls gone crazy"?

Seriously now, I doubt there are any wild hogs within 250 miles. Reliable hunting for javelina is more to the south down around Tuscon...

 

[Suzmar1997]

In all the years I've house boated there I have yet to see one. There's plenty of big horn sheep crawling around there though (Kind of cool to see). If you get the chance, check out Cathedral Cove...lots of rams and lots of big bass where the cove ends.

 

[larrysogla]

I believe the only population of wild pigs in that area is way down south on the Colorado River. That is the Indian reservation by the Colorado River a few miles south of Laughlin, Nevada/Bullhead City, Arizona area. That Indian reservation land by the Colorado River is always green and lush. Kind of a low lying area probably swamped by the Colorado River when the Bureau of Reclamation opens up the Davis??? Dam gates. It would most probably be an "exercise in futility" to go pig hunting in the Colorado River, Lake Mead drainages, etc. Unless you can get a permit from the Indian Reservation. That is probably what Superduty's friends are referring about pigs in the boat ramp. Oh, just like Superduty warned, STAY OUT of the National Park boundary if doing any kind of hunting at all with any kind of weapon. 'Nuff said.