mendocino natl forest

[RollinRuger]

Any helpful information on good spots would be much appreciated. i ran a search but didn't really come up with anything.

 

[BDB]

Been hunting deer there for 5 years. Never have see any pigs or any sign of pigs. I talked to some guys that have hunted there for 20 years with the same report. That said I hear that some of the areas on the eastern end "might" hold pigs. Sorry I couldn't help more.

 

[RollinRuger]

is there anything else up their? On one of the mendocino sites they say hogs are open year round, i guess that doesn't mean there their though.

 

[BDB]

Deer, rabbits (cotton tail and jacks), bear, yotes, bobcats and some turkeys. I see them all while deer hunting. It can be some pretty tough hunting in certain areas, especially in the dry hot noisy days of the July archery deer season. After talking with lots of folks, I have never given hogs a second thought in MNF.

 

[RollinRuger]

what do you mean by never given them a second thought?

 

[BDB]

I am not going to think about hunting them there as I doubt I will ever see one. I do carry a tag with me when hunting other things though.

 

[RollinRuger]

i see what you mean. I will definately be getting those rabbits up their though.

 

[Speckmisser]

Rollin,

I wouldn't be completely surprised to see hogs moving into the MNF in the near future. In fact, I'm sure there are probably some there now, but the guys who are killing them aren't telling anyone.

At the rate these animals are expanding, and because I know there are tons of hogs in the areas along the edges of the MNF, I fully expect the area to become a "hot spot" in the next five or ten years.

If you're determined to hit that area for hogs, I'd probably focus on the southeastern corner, or go over to the far western edges.

 

[RollinRuger]

Do they allow dogs in the mnf?

 

[Speckmisser]

Yupp, dogs are allowed.

 

[larrysogla]

Wasn't the Tejon Ranch hog free way back in the 1980's??? As I understand it there was a fenced wild hog farm in the neighboring ranch that suffered a brushfire and the responding fire crews bulldozed the hog fence to gain access to the brushfire. The hog fence breakdown allowed the fenced hogs to escape and that is how the hogs were introduced to Tejon Ranch. In the early 1990's as I understand it, the Tejon Ranch considered the nascent hog population a pest and tried to eradicate it. But as we all know, eradicating hogs on suitable habitat is a losing proposition. The hogs have profilerated on Tejon's wonderful habitat and now we have hog hunting in the Tejon Ranch. If a breeding pair has access at all to the MNF, then like Mr. SpeckM says, tallyho!!! hoghammertime in a few short years. The hogs breed like rabbitts and will expand and populate the entire suitable habitat. 'Nuff said.

P.S. I just wish those Tejon hogs will cross the highway and start breeding in the Angeles Nat. Forest. Wishful thinking really, but then again, who knows what this intelligent and hardy animals will do.

 

[BobcatJess]

I have seen hogs along the west side of the fence along the I-5 across from Tejon.

 

[larrysogla]

WooHooooo!!!! That is very good news........the west side of I-5 is the Los Padres Nat. Forest.......isn't that already populated by hogs coming from the Lake Piru and Lake Cachuma area????? What I am really wishfully thinking of is that Quail Lake Road(Highway 138) going to Palmdale coming from Gorman in I-5. Wish the wild hogs will start crossing that road and start populating the Angeles Nat. Forest up in Sawmill Mountain. There is Lake Castaic up in that area and I am sure lots of springs and water sources to sustain the hogs. Lots of oak trees up there too. Well, maybe someday a breeding pair will finally cross the divide, so to speak. Then it will be hoggin' hammertime in the Angeles Nat. Forest. 'Nuff said.

 

[Speckmisser]

In the 10 years since I moved to CA, hogs have spread from their concentrations in the Central Coast across and up the state. I have seen them in Lake and Colusa County and bordering Glenn County as well. I've seen them road-killed in Sacramento (right on I-80), and have heard of multiple new hunting operations in the Fresno/Visalia region. They're killing hogs in Mariposa, Redding, Red Bluff, Mendocino, and Tehachapi.

Now I know some hogs were probably in most of these places already, and probably have been for years. But the numbers have never been what they are now, and those numbers are continuing to expand.

What I'm getting at is that Larry may very soon have his wish (wouldn't be surprised if the hogs aren't already roaming the ANF). As I mentioned before, there are guys killing hogs in lots of places that you might not expect, and keeping their mouths shut about it. But sooner or later, Bob Robb, Durwood Hollis, or Jim Matthews will publish an article or a book that lists a whole slew of new "hot spots" and it will be Game On!