Baiting hogs
 

I have a place that is a tad far away to get to more than once quarter. So I keep a feeder tossing a little corn just to keep the hogs coming around. My brother stopped by yesterday to check a few things and found the feeder was down in a flood and all the corn ruined. It could not be fixed.

So next time I go, i'd like some ideas on how to bait hogs late on a Friday night so I have a better chance of seeing them on Saturday morning.

Any suggestions?

That will prove difficult if not impossible because unless there are a bunch of hogs in the immediate area it will probably take a while to bait the area again to start having them come around on a consistent basis. To place any kind of bait out one night and expect to see hogs the next morning IMHO is wishful thinking.

One way to keep them coming around is a giant steaming pile of compost. They really like worms.

If the pile is big enough and has the right ingredients it will never freeze as long as you keep adding material to it periodically.

A bit of work in the beginning, but upkeep is minimal.

I start mine with restaurant leftovers, cover it with horse stall cleanup and then throw any sort of vegetation on top. Hogs, Fox and Yotes will all pay it regular visits.

Just be careful where you put it, they can start on fire. I've had mine smoking before.

You can also mix in some Oats, the heat from the compost will cause the Oats to sprout even in winter, Deer love the sprouts.

My thought, too, but I have to work with what I've got and that ain't much.

Guess I'll woop up a batch of hog stank, set it out Friday afternoon late and see what I see.

That's really about all you can do and then cross your fingers there are some hogs within sniffing distance that can't resist coming in.

I have had to do this from time to time. The only think I have found to work okay is beer corn. I get an 18 pack of the cheapest nastiest beer at the store and a bag of corn then I split the bag between 5 gal buckets with lids and split the beer among them then let it sit on the back of the property for at least 2 weeks. Most of the time it pops the lid, but is some rank stuff I always duck tape the lid when I put it in the bed of the truck to travel to my hunting grounds.

i did put out some of that rootin juice one year in Bow season and had a wallow there by the time I got back for rifle season, but i really didn't see any more then the beercorn mash.

I know just the beer to use. $6 / case.

Oh yeah will work just fine!!!! side note my buddy likes to use Kool-aide in his also I think the beer works better but he swears by it and kills plenty of pigs, but we got no shortage of them here in FL.

I've used Nuoc Mam, a Vietnamese condiment (smells like rotten fish guts). You can find it at any old school Oriental market. Warning! I had a bottle leak in the back of my Jeep, stank for months.

The last time I used it there was whole sounder rooting around where I had spread some the day before. I spread it on a game trail they used hoping to get them to stop and investigate long enough for a shot, worked out fine.

You can let it drop by drop across a likely path (maybe a hundred yards wide) and then dump the mother load. This stuff really stinks if you get the good stuff, a little goes a long ways.

If they are anywhere around they are likely to come investigate.

They used to have a law (the Greens pushed through) forbidding baiting Hogs here with Corn (repealed it after a couple of years) we had to get creative.

Nuoc Mam. There are not any Vietnamese markets in this part of Buba Country, but I'll give a look see.

Thansk.

I've never had success at attempts to "quick bait" hogs. Typically it takes several days for them to find bait, if there's anything left after the deer and raccoons work it over. I always have to constantly refresh the bait pile, or set up a feeder.

Good Luck!

Any Asian market carries fish sauce. Nuoc Mam is fish sauce. Water, sugar and some spices are added when used as a condiment.

Make your own with some fish sauce and sugar. Fish sauce is just fish,shrimp or squid plus salt and water left in the sun to ferment.

I appreciate all the advise. Darn rain started up again I still have not gotten a days hog hunting.

Heck that is when it's time to get to hunting. I drive around looking for fresh tracks crossing the road and slip in on foot and pop one or two.

My spot is in a flood zone. Right now it is under 2 to 3 feet of water. Once it stops raining for 3-days it'll be perfect.

Haha that's not rain that's a monsoon! we have places like that as well down here. Most the decent places i hunt I travel through a few feet of water to get to. I've had to bump gators out of my way in plenty of the swamps down here.

Peanut butter works well, but it will also attract a lot of other varmits too.

But the best non-commercial bait a hog-removal guy I knew used was a mix of corn, chocolate syrup and strawberry Jell-O powder buried 18" down in a posthole. Leave a few bits on top to get their interest...I bet hogs would root up a blacktop road to get at that stuff.

Once you get'em used to coming to a feed site, make a "pig pipe". Chain it to a tree, fill it with corn and they'll knock it around for a long time.