4th Annual Boeuf Hog/Deer Hunt - Were back home!

[Chumster]

Great idea Daniel!

[DanielB89]

Great idea Daniel!

I don't know that i've ever had a bad idea.. 

[DanielB89]

Alright Fellas,

Terry has graciously given us our own piece of the real estate here to discuss the X's and O's of this hunt and answer any particular questions anyway may have.  There isn't a password, but (to my understanding), only the ones that are attending are allowed access. 

If you're on the attending list and can't access it, please let me know. 

Thank you, Terry.

http://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?board=117.0

[Chumster]

Working for me,

Thanks Terry and Daniel!

[DanielB89]

Making sure everyone sees the link to the new area. 

[John146]

Got it.

[DanielB89]

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[DanielB89]

Welp, the day has come.  Some people are already on location to search for a sounder.  I will be able to head that way after work today. 

I hope to find good news when I get to camp this evening. 

As always, we had a few who had stuff come up and weren't able to make it, but that won't stop our good time! 

The water this year is higher than it has ever been on this hunt, which in my opinion is a good thing.  More water means less dry land.  Not that they wont venture out into the water, but at some time they're going to want to lay down on something high and dry. 

I hope we will be able to update throughout the week, but not sure at this time as service is very limited.

[fnshtr]

Good luck to all you guys!
 

I’m excited for you.

[pdk25]

Good luck to you guys.

[DanielB89]

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[DanielB89]

Well, some of the guys were able to make it down there early Thursday morning and If I remember correctly, there were a few hogs seen that first day.  I made it down after work and didn’t have tome to hunt. 

When I got to camp, everyone was there except for Daren and Tony.  Tony would end up showing up Friday mid day and Darren was there just a couple hours after me. 


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[Chumster]

Being that this was my first Boeuf Hog Hunt, I started early morning but due to a dysfunctional GPS that took me the long route, I arrived mid afternoon. Not a problem, I had plenty of time.

The the only issue was that I was on the opposite side of the river from camp. Luckily the ferry ride was only a buck.

[DanielB89]

I'm kinda waiting on some others to type their part.. going to have to get onto Randy, Darren, Jacob, Todd, and Tony!   Rick gets the picture. 

[Chumster]

I finally made it to camp, it had to be, was the end of the road leading into the WMA. With only one truck already there and no one to be found I waited for some sign of human activity.

What better to do than to take a walk about and sure enough there was plenty of water. As I had heard though, that would make things even better. Less land equals more concentration of hogs.

[Chumster]

It wasn't too long before the first two guys, Todd (John146) and Jacob (jbpharmd) returned from their scouting trips.

As the others Daniel (B89), Randy (Crittergetter) and Darren (Hackbow) arrived, I could tell that this was going to be a fun camp - for the smack talk began immediately.
I felt an instant connection with all these great men. As Daniel stated earlier, Tony (Fattony77) would arrive on Friday.

Let me tell you - if you've ever heard anything about the food at this hunt, it's everything and more. These meals consisted of : étouffée, brisket, Real chili, breakfast burritos, and Fattony's brownies.
I appreciate all the hard work each guy put into his particular meal!!

[DanielB89]

Keep it coming, Rick!! 

[Chumster]

The Hunt:

What can I say but it was nothing short of fantastic!! A special thanks goes out to both Daniel and Jacob for letting me tag along with them on their roves in search of hogs. Heck, Jacob had to keep me from getting lost in the marsh and Daniel gave me pointers on how to walk in them. 

There was never any shortage of sign as you can see from the pictures,

Not only was the sign good but there were lots of pigs to be seen. I got a great appreciation for hogs sense of smell and the swirling winds of the Louisiana swamps.
Although I never loosed an arrow, I was on hogs each day. The pigs just never read my script for the stalk.

I would like to give a big thanks to Daniel for hosting this hunt and allowing others to join in. Also, to his father-in-law for letting us use his facilities.

The fellowship, memories, and new friends made are priceless!!

Thanks!

[John146]

I arrived on Thursday around 11 am and with Jacobs help we put up my Davis Wall Tent and a 13' x 13' canopy to cook under. As soon as that was done we hit the woods. Jacob had went to an area earlier that morning. I will let him tell that story. We went to an area we had seen hogs in years past but the water was so high we could not get behind the cutover thicket near the swamp area so we moved about a half mile north to work back into the southerly winds.

We were immediately on some pretty fresh signs and had went about half way through this area when I decided to let Jacob finish that stretch and I would go back to the truck and pick him up when he came out. He came out and had an encounter that I will let him share.