Stalking Vs Tree stand
 

I just moved to Florida, and have gone to Green Swamp WMA twice. I was told the best method to hunt hogs is to quietly walk the old roads, listened for the hogs as they feed, then to stalk up on them. I spent many hours on my feet and had no luck, but saw PLTENY of areas the pigs had torn up.
As a walked the roads I saw many tree stands, and am beginning to think that is the way to go. I am new to this pig hunting, and really want a few for the freezer.
Any advice for a newbie would be greatly appreciated.
Gabriel

Wondering about this myself..

I don't know about in Florida; but most of us in Texas use a stand and hunt over baited areas.

GP I hunt the Green Swamp WMA as well. I prefer to stock the hogs and hunt that way. I killed a big hog this morning actually. Your gonna have to find them in the morning because once it warms up they will be bedded down in the thick palmettos. I find where they root at night on the old roads and follow trails to the thick palmettos. In the morning I hunt the trails in between the locations. All my kills come before 8 am and usually right at 7.

Thanks
 

Thanks for the advice. I hope to get out to the WMA this Saturday and put the stalk on. Who knows, even a blind squirrel can find a nut.

I've found more hogs down by the river. Just be ready to walk through the thick stuff and away from the other hunters.

Get at em Early set up between the feed and thier bedding area, or spot and stalk starting from there bedding area and move to where they feed. You need to figure out there schedual first and there moving patterns.

Thanks for all the good tips. I am heading on on Monday to fill the freezer!

Take a camera I want to see some Boars down pictures!

Will take my camera for the pictures of my fresh bacon. And also I am going to take a game camera and set it up too. Hope to get some good pics with it over the next few weeks.

Had a good hunt yesterday. I did not put my camera up as I came across another hunter who said his two cameras and his tree stand were stolen. He even had them chained and padlocked to the trees. Pretty sad…
So I hiked and hunted. Saw a lot of sign, some very fresh, but in the end had to settle on elk steaks from the freezer for dinner as the pigs were victorious today.

Keep at em once you figure out there pattern you will be laying waste!

I hunt a lot of hogs in Texas, mostly with a bow and either way is good. I prefer to stalk, especially at night, because its just more fun.

If you are going to stalk you MUST have the right wind. Wind in your face, your in the right place. Without that you are done before you start.

Second, when you are walking try to almost march - if you shuffle your feet they will be gone...most places in Texas have cattle and marching makes you sound like a cow which pigs get used to.

It also depends on the time you are stalking them. Full moon and warmer weather sends them nockturnal and you will be hunting them at night for any success. They don't have great vision so use that to your advantage but they do have amazing sense of smell.

If you can bait, do that. We like to 'corn the roads' in the evening and then walk them in the night time - you can see them from pretty far away and stalk up on them

Also use red or green lights, never white lights. They will charge white lights. Red is preferable - its not so much the light that spooks them but the shadows it creates and freaks them out.

Good Luck!! Its a blast!!

For what it's worth. I hunt hogs in Mayo Fl and this is what works for us. There is no one size fits all. I use feeders and have had luck using them. Sometimes I've seen the hogs walk right by them. One technique my son uses that works well. He walks the roads looking for fresh tracks or fresh rootings. He slowly snakes his was thru the woods preferably by some water. Every once in a while he sits under a tree and just listens. Hogs seem mostly vocal in the evening. But what he does hear is them splashing in the water. Then he stalks up on them. He's taken 8 hogs this year doing that. Once he took 3 hogs with in 15 mins during bow season.