Spenceville Wildlife Area ( Hogs )

[Blisters]

Looking to go to Spenceville Wildlife Area
to get me a hog, any pointer about the area ??

Thanks

 

[Drake Slayer]

Not enough hogs to make it worthwhile.

 

[Blisters]

Thought it was a good place to go, much closer
for me to go there then to Red Bluff..

Been there lately ?

 

[Drake Slayer]

A few hogs are taken every once in a while from the back of Beale afb. It is a much better place to hunt turkeys or coyotes.

 

[wmidbrook]

I grew up around there and there is almost no pig--it would be amazing if you even saw sign there.  As mentioned that's prime turkey habitat but pig have never really been established there.  There are a few pig, I hear, in the Yuba River canyon off of engelbright lake just to the North of there...some locals have the herd figured out and hammer them hard...they herd doesn't get large.

Maybe, just maybe, a pig makes it over to spenseville on occassion.  You're a whole lot better off elsewhere.

 

[Blisters]

Thanks alot, I will sure not waste time trying
to hunt non exsisting pigs

Good for turkey Hmm, care to share some on that I might go there and see if I can get me one or two

 

[Kentuck]

I turkey hunted there once and did see some pig sign on the back side. It wasn't much but some.

 

[wmidbrook]

I've seen lots of people mix up turkey scratch and pig rooting, also seen many people call calf scat pig scat.  But, slowly but surely, pigs are getting a toe-hold in the Sierras.  Word has it that around Oakdale/Jackson, pig are getting thicker.  20 years ago, people didn't believe turkey's would have infested the Sierra foothill county--any correlation with blacktail population declines?

 

[THBailey]

I think this is the urban legend of the mythical Spenceville wild pig.  I have stomped over large portions of Spenceville and have never seen substantial pig sign much less a pig.  A word of warning on the turkeys-  The first portion of the season is by special draw only.  

 

[American Patriot]

    Trust me, the hogs are in there.  They are highly sensitive to hunting pressure and are careful about where and when they come out.  
    I first began catching them in 1992 while coonhunting along the creeks.  Between 1992 and 1998 when I stopped going there, I had fair luck...about a forty percent success rate.  My other hunting country is much better so I have returned to Spenceville only in pursuit of Dove.
    No, they are not teeming in there and you have your work cut out for you without dogs, but look for them in the areas that border private property.  I had permission to hunt a ranch that was to the north and east of Spenceville and they were thick in there.
 

 

[wmidbrook]

Well, the north end of spenceville would only be a few  miles from Engelbright.  I'd imagine those pig could range a ways into spensville no problem.

The pig are starting to get thick in places in the Sierra foothills down by Oakdale too.  I hear there are a few ranches that are pretty loaded with wild hog around the 1000 ft elevation.

 

[sean english]

this is an old thread. Lets bring it to life.

 

[7mallards]

Scouting is the best option but why scout when you can just ask on the internet and get various responses... Scouting costs time money and effort as mentioned so many times but the internet is only a click away..

 

[OVHunter916]

Since we're resurrecting this thread, I'll chime in. All I can say is pigs are there, but there are better public land options. I've ran into pigs three times out there. Once at close range while deer hunting without a pig tag, once at close range while scouting in late August, and once at very long range (600 yards) after specifically pig hunting for three days. During the off season pigs come to feed and bed, especially when pushed off neighboring cattle ranches by purge-style drive hunts. Then they get pushed off Spenceville by dove, deer, and quail hunters in the fall. Some hole up in blackberry thickets and stay on the WA year-round. Lots of pigs feed there at night and then run back to private land cover well before legal light in the fall and winter. Best bet is just to go deer or bird hunting as usual with a pig tag and a handgun... Remember turkey only during the spring season, pigs are off limits per DFW regs for the area.

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[renardsubtil]

I was there last October and hiked to the ponds in the southern section. I didn't see anything, no tracks either. Lots of berries and acorns but that place was totally devoid of any wildlife, but don't take my word on it, like the others posted, things can change due to pressures from surrounding areas.

 

[OVHunter916]

The "Mythical Spenceville Pig" (or group thereof) tends to be very much a moving target that is rarely in the same place twice. Some berry thickets consistently seem to hold them but the seem to enter at times from all sides of the property except perhaps the airbase (I haven't personally checked that out). I talked with an angler that told me he fished those southern ponds a couple years ago and one of them had a ton of rootings and mud rubs on nearby trees so you never know. There are a few general areas with recurrent sightings but you probably won't see them feeding there two days in a row, especially if they get bumped or catch someone's scent from a mile away when the wind is in their favor...

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