Tosohatchee WMA Hog Hunt

              As promised, every Wednesday we will feature a Bass2Bucks Outdoors video. Today marks our first hunting video which is action packed to say the least. This weekend I was invited to tag-along on a hog hunt with dog’s quota in the Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The morning started out early as we all stayed at a hotel nearby and met up at the IHOP for breakfast before our hunt. At breakfast we discussed our hunting strategy and developed a pretty good plan of attack.

              It had rained all day and night before our hunt which meant that any hog tracks we found in the roads that morning would be fresh. We drove around the WMA for about thirty minutes before we found some fresh hog tracks from the night before. That let us know the hogs had to be nearby. We were hunting with cur dogs and a pitbull. The cur dogs would sniff out the hogs and bay them for us until we got there with the pitbull which would serve as our catch dog.   

              It wasn’t long after we let the cur dogs loose until we heard them barking and letting us know that they had a hog bayed up. Within twenty minutes of turning them loose we were sprinting through the woods to find them barking at a big boar hog. After a few minutes we had our first hog on the tailgate and went searching for another.

              As the day went on we moved to a completely different side of the WMA and let the dogs run for a while. After about thirty minutes we heard them sound off like they did before and once again we were sprinting through the woods except this time it was deep into the thickest swamp you’ve ever seen. After tromping through water, mud and saw grass that was five feet over our head we found our hog. Unfortunately finding him was the easy part, getting him out of there was a mission! After about an hour of dragging and coming face to face with a snake we had the hog out of the swamp and on the tailgate.

               The rest of our trip was slow. We did see one more hog cross the road in front of us but the dogs never did find him.  All in all we had a blast and hope to get chosen for this quota again next year. Tosohatchee is a beautiful wildlife management area and the FWC are doing a great job making their presence there known. We saw them driving around all day as well as spoke to them for a few minutes coming in and out at the check station.