If you are going in January Ray might suggest the grove of "short pines". That is one huge, nasty, thick, rip your clothes off, briar patch!
I got one word for you.......BRUSH PANTS!
We spent best part of the hunt in there in Feb '09. It looked like a thousand rototillers were playing tag, I mean there was not a 10' circle that wasn't torn up!
We went back in Oct '09 and caught the tail end of a summer long drought. If you can find water you will find sign. A week or so later it rained and the hogs were everywhere. We just missed them.
We didn't see more than a half dozen mosquitos on our winter hunt. The fall hunt was a different matter, the Thermocells were all fired up toward evening. And Ray has some huuuuge spiders down in the dark places of the swamp. I bet their big webs (some were easily 10'x20') could bring down a bird! I felt like I was on the set of Jurasic Park. What a really cool place! "We're not in Kansas anymore Toto!"
We're booked for a return trip in Feb '11. We will go where Ray suggests and I imagine he will point toward the short pines again. He will then hear a collective moan from the PA Hawg Hauling Crew! No pain, no gain!
Be prepared to hunt hard, laugh hard, and eat hard!
Good luck and save a few for us.
"In the swamp no one can hear you scream!"