Locating Pigs in Winter

[digglerP]

Hey All,

First post so I'll introduce myself, I'm Dirk from San Jose. Long time fisherman and newbie hunter. Like the site a lot and lots of good posts.

So I've been trying the BLM pig hunting with no success so far. Hopefully I'll have a free weekend in Nov and Dec to try out Hunter Liggett.


A discussion I wanted to start here is what are some of the techniques you guys use for locating pigs during the winter? And by winter I mean rainy/wet season. In the dry seasons, it's logical to start with locating a water source and looking for sign there. In the wet months, it seems like there would be ground water/mud everywhere and pigs can spread out much more. When this is the case, what is the approach you experienced hunters take?

Dirk

 

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They are pigs, so they start feeding like crazy.


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[Bubblehide]

Pigs are rooting animals, as such, in those wet winter months you mention, you might want to concentrate on simply looking for fresh rooting; it looks like someone took a rototiller to the hillside, kind of hard to miss, bet be sure it's fresh.

 

[bigboarstopper]

Hogs in the winter time are everywhere and nowhere. They are constantly on the move covering long distances or holding up in brushpatches and not moving at all. My method during the wettest parts of year is to cover lots of ground and find the freshest rooting possible.

In case you dont know, the fresh rooting is darker. The ground that the hogs have dug up is still moist and isnt as dried out as older rooting. Another way to check the age of rooting is to flip the dirt clods over and see if the grass underneath is still green and relatively alive and not wilted. The grass under older rooting will be dead, yellow or wilted.

Running a pack of well trained cur dogs works best for me during the wettest time of the year. Then again anytime of the year running a pack of cur dogs works best for me.......