West of Red Bluff

[duckhunterflyfisher]

How good is the hog hunting west of red bluff. Will soon have unlimted access to 1000 acres up there...never hunted up there, know there is Turkey, quail etc. But was wondering about the hog and deer.

 

[Metdawg44]

Not familiar with that area but if there is turkey and quail then there's a good chance there are pigs too. They all like similar habitat.

 

[dkhuntr25]

its really hit and miss i have access to 1000 acres in that area and sometimes they r there sometimes they rnt

 

[rbrown77]

its really hit and miss i have access to 1000 acres in that area and sometimes they r there sometimes they rnt

My friend has some land there also, and I have yet to see one, but he sees them some times. But I have talked to other people and they have great results. Good luck Keep us update on how it goes.

 

[larrysogla]

Isn't it possible to dig a small pond near a well and scatter hay seeds around so that the hay will be allowed to grow to waist high and that will provide cover for the pond and the pigs will have somewhere to wallow while hidden. It is not illegal to have a pond on private property to "attract" hog presence. I would rent a small "Bobcat" backhoe and start digging and sowing hay seeds around it.
'Nuff said
larrysogla

 

[sidepass]

Hunted pig about 30 miles west of Red Bluff before. Good pig population on the ranch . Close to the town of Paskenta.

sidepass

 

[RIFLEMAN]

larrysogla,

Isn't it possible to dig a small pond near a well and scatter hay seeds around so that the hay will be allowed to grow to waist high and that will provide cover for the pond and the pigs will have somewhere to wallow while hidden. It is not illegal to have a pond on private property to "attract" hog presence. I would rent a small "Bobcat" backhoe and start digging and sowing hay seeds around it.

I wouldn't think the planting of hay to provide cover would necessarily be illegal, but putting a blind, stand, etc over the pond for big game (within 200 yards of it, I think) is illegal.

 

[dthome]

Lemme know if I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like the regulations only prohibit hunting within 200 yards of watering holes on public land. Hunting is also prohibited within a quarter mile of six wells named specifically.

Check it out:
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§730. Camping Near or Occupying Wildlife Watering Places.

(a) Camping/Occupying Defined. For purposes of this Section, camping/occupying is defined as establishing or inhabiting a camp; resting; picnicking; sleeping; parking or inhabiting any motor vehicle or trailer; hunting; or engaging in any other recreational activity for a period of more than thirty (30) minutes at a given location.
(b) Wildlife Watering Places Defined. For purposes of this Section, wildlife watering places are defined as waterholes, springs, seeps and man-made watering devices for wildlife such as guzzlers (self-filling, in-the-ground water storage tanks), horizontal wells and small impoundments of less than one surface acre in size.
(c) Prohibitions.
(1) Camping/Occupying is prohibited within 200 yards of the following:
(A) Any guzzler or horizontal well for wildlife on public land within the State of California.
(B) Any of the wildlife watering places on public land within the boundary of the California Desert Conservation Area as depicted on the Bureau of Land Management maps of “Calif. Federal Public Lands Responsibility,” “Calif. Desert Conservation Area” and the new “Desert District, B.L.M.”
2) Camping/Occupying is prohibited within one-quarter mile of the following wildlife watering places:
(A) Butte Well--T31N, R14E, Section 28, NE1/4, M.D.B.M., Lassen County.
(B) Schaffer Well--T31N R14E, Section 25, Center, M.D.B.M., Lassen County.
(C) Tableland Well--T31N, R14E, Section 17, SE1/4, M.D.B.M., Lassen County.
(D) Table Mountain Well--T31N, R14E, Section 32, SE1/4, M.D.B.M., Lassen County.
(E) Timber Mountain Well--T44N, R6E, Section 33, M.D.B.M., Modoc National Forest, Modoc County.
(F) Belfast Well--T31N, R14E, Section 31, NE1/4, M.D.B.M., Lassen County.

 

[larrysogla]

Rifleman,
I am not an authority by any means..........but I have not come across a "prohibition" specifically dealing with ponds, waterholes, seeps, springs, wells in private property and the hunting/shooting of hogs attracted to it. I hope somebody will clarify this with specific regulations that spell it in black and white.
'Nuff said
larrysogla