Lake Sonoma 2010-2011 Wild Boar Hunting Info?

[Beastie]

I have hunted LS for several years now and I dont seem to ever have a huge problem with running into other hunters throughout the 5 day week. At best, I might run into 1 maybe 2 people during the day. Most days though, I never see anyone. Let the pigs rest. Its a difficult place to hunt to begin with so keep the pressure off and let them feed.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

i hear ya Beastie! ok, then how about swicthing the hunting days to thur.-tue. and they can have wed.& thur. off instead, that would thro them off and they can still get their 2 days of no hunting pressure and give us a better opp. to harvest. got to get back to work! talk to ya later! have a great day!....tra

 

[Huntr Pat]

I would sign support in keeping it 5 days. Just like alot of public areas that receives to much public pressure the pigs go onto private lands or more nocturnal.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

my main reason why i want to hunt mondays and tuesdays because they are my days off, i have to work everyweekend, so it sucks that everytime i want to just go hunt i have to request time off. you can only request so much time off if u really want to keep a job secure these days. so it limits me to hunting by always having to request time off.
all i want is a public place to hunt pigs where i can just get up and go whithout a hassle of always asking for time off. so for me thats lake sonoma, but unfortunetly thats not possible because they wont let us hunt on mondays and tuesdays. so thats my problem. if i could hunt l.s. on mon. & tue.i would have the opp. to hunt every week but with my time off situation i might ony get 4 or 5 days to hunt l.s. for the season.

so i dont how many of you l.s. wild pig bowhunters are in my same situation, hope u can understand my frustration to get out and hunt without always haveing to pull teeth to get out into the woods and hunt. i just want to get up and go anytime to hunt, butt for now thats just an out of reach dream.......tra

 

[hunterdoug]

I feel your pain tra, but sometimes changes are hard to make, personally I don't see it making much diff, thurs/fri closed, mon/tue closed, good luck, lets just keep it simple and all archery. but like I said before I think the days are for the ranger in charge to be present, (working those days) so the ranger might have to change his days off.

 

[JNDEER]

Sorry to hear you are still in that same boat TRA, hope it works out either way.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

thanks for understanding my situation. i guess all i could now is go with the flow for now. hope to share some hunts with u guys at l.s. this season, good luck...tra

 

[sancho]

oo. yuck!

this explains it. good luck TRA..i hope it plays out in your favor.

 

[DeadEyeSoldier]

info

Hey all. looking forward to another year of exciting bow hunting at lake sonoma! Here is some information that might be helpful...

Last year was my first year hunting at LS. Luckily for me i live only 30 minutes south of the lake so i got to go hunting quite a bit. I only got to hunt on the weekends, out of the 8 weekend i hunted i saw pigs 7 of them. i got two shots off last year and missed both. i also had an opportunity to shoot a large boar that was sleeping under a tree but i passed it up. The first couple of weeks there were hunters everywhere, but at the same time so were the pigs. When the rain started to fall it seemed like the i saw less hunters and more hogs. There was several weekends that i went out and never saw another hunter. A boat isnt a must, but it deffinately helps. I went out to yorty creek last week (with my boat) and between the hours of 7 and 10 i spotted 22 hogs.
Here is a website with all of the information on the 2010/2011 pig hunting season at LS.
US Army Corps of Engineers

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. Also, if anyone is looking for a hunting buddy let me know. Most of my hunts last year i was all by my lonesome.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

thanks for the info D.E.S.. see how quick time flys! less then 8 weeks till the opener!
i guess there will still be no hunting on mon. & tue. this year (that really sucks for me) so i am going to put a time off request for the opening week and camp and hunt on the wed. thur. and mayby friday that week if everything goes well. so if anyone wants to share a hunt with me at that time let me know. cant wait to be chasing those l.s piggies again!...tra

 

[jb229]

can't wait!

 

[house4ursoul]

Hey Roman ill head out there with ya for the opener. Let me know!!
Whens the opener by the way? The fifteenth?

 

[jb229]

27th of November, Weekend after Thanksgiving. I will be there Friday to register and plan on staying that night and through the weekend. Just not sure if i am going to bring my boat or not.

 

[house4ursoul]

27th? I forgot that I had called last month and the lady told me November 18. Marked it on my calendar and everything.
Ok so the 27th it is. Im there for opening weekend for sure.
Never been to LS for a hunt. Be interesting exploring around. Are you allowed to hike there right now? Itd be good to start scouting around.
No boat for me. Ill be hoofing it in and out. Maybe I can buy a plastic inflatable so if i do stick a pig i can float us out of there. Im thinking a floating palm tree.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

Hey H4S i sent u a PM. yes u can hike there anytime u want ita a public park.

theres nothing stranger then going in to hunt l.s. in the dark early morning and when u are coming out of the wooods later a joger runs by and says goodmorning and theres a porta potty on the trail, go figure!.........tra

 

[Krisdude]

yea love those hour long boat ride in the dark when it's 27 degrees and have a spot light out looking for the trees poking up and the fog gives you 10' vis
but its fun

 

[Ism415]

I would love to go pig hunting with my bow this year, vie never done it and have tried the last 2 years but my buddy who im sops to do it with always backs out, if anyone is willing to let me tag along with them it would be awesome and i would love to return the favor with fishing sturgeon in the bay or something!

 

[house4ursoul]

Cant waaait!!! Got a turkey hunt then a LS hunt for ms piggy coming up. Kill some time in between with public land hunting/hiking and itll be here in no time!!

 

[house4ursoul]

Is it november 28 yet?

 

[Richmellott]

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