Looks like y'all have been trying to cut the numbers down pretty good. Since I haven't been able to get down to my club for a couple of years until the last of this season, the guys have been on me for that a little while.
About 6 or 8 years ago, an older gentleman told me about a trick that the farmers were using. It involved putting dry grape cool-aid in a hole like a post hole about 8 to 12" deep and covering it up. They said that the hogs would blow a hole after a few nights that looked like you blew a big stump. They were adding poison to it to get rid of as many as possible. We had been talking about doing it without the poison.
Has anyone heard of using grape cool aid or anything other than mash or out of date bread (damp area) to bait with?
Our season is all year. They are varmints and they want as many disposed of as possible.
I wish that the yote's would eat the poisoned pigs, but we haven't seen any sign of that unless the pigs are going deep into the swamp before they die.
We can night hunt for them, but the laws are so confusing that it isn't done very much here. You can't use rifles, you can use pistols. You can use lights, but not attached to the weapon, or something like that and more. Maybe they've changed them some in the last couple of years.
With the floods this year, almost nobody got their P-nuts in, so they ought to grow a bunch this year and we already had some pretty healthy hogs.
Any tricks on baiting would be appreciated. We usually use logs to build our traps so that the metal sound doesn't bother them. We catch twice as many in the big log traps than the metal or the fence wire traps.
Any tips will be appreciated, Paul
