With the weather getting nicer, and a glimmer of hope it would stay that way it was way overdue to start some pig traps.
I woke up hours before first light on Wednesday morning as I always did and started racking my brain as to what to do with the flat above the high impassible bank on the river. After thinking about it more over a day after we found it, it became very obvious that it was a funnel of sorts.
It forced any hog that was traveling along the river to have to come up on the flat with the log piles on it. That would make them very visible. But we needed something to slow them down, and keep them there for a while so as to work in for a stalk.
So in the dark of the camper, while everyone else slept, I came up with the idea of making a "pig bomb" out in front of one of those log piles. We had Jello mix, sour corn, regular corn...I figured why not try it all! The "bomb" was the bait, and the log pile was the cover for sneaking in close. Even thought we might be able to build a ground blind in it.
So when Don woke up, I ran my idea by him to see what he thought, and if he'd be willing to help me pack all the stuff we needed down off the bluff. He was more than willing and also added the he had some "Hog Wild" a commercial dry hog mix that he'd used with success before.
I had my bow, and one pack hanging in front of me with my hunting gear, and one on my back with two containers of sour corn, jello mix, and a package of Hog Wild. Don had his arrowmaster quiver, his bow, and a back pack full of corn.
We dropped down over the cliff (not an easy task in itself), and got to work.....
I laid the "trickle trails" of corn all over the flat to help lead the hogs into the buried treasure, and Don dug the hole and created the "Pig Bomb" by digging a hole and backfilling by layering dirt with sour corn, corn, Hog Wild, and jello........
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Then we took some time to build a blind in the log pile.....the set-up looked perfect!
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The trap was set!
Topic: PIG GIG--Week 1 ---***SNAKE PICS ADDED*** (Read 11365 times)
