Baiting hogs, need ideas
 

Last year, I took a 9 year old hog hunting in June (legal on private land in Florida). This is not the best month to hog hunt given the Florida heat but it is when we can work it out. Unfortunately, our property is not over-loaded w/ hogs and despite working hard for 4 hours, we did not even see a hog.

This year, I want to improve our odds and would appreciate your suggestions on what i can do to put this kid on a hog. We don't have feeders on the property but it is legal to bait hogs in florida. Club members have told me that dumping a bag of corn on the ground the day before will not draw the hogs, so i need to do something better, and probably a week or more in advance.

Any ideas?

thx

RE: Baiting hogs, need ideas
 

Can you hunt at night there? In June because of the heat, the hogs will be moving more at night.

Try taking an old ice chest, one you don't care about losing.

Pour a bag of corn in the ice chest and add enough water just to come up to the top of the corn, close the lid and duct tape the lid around all 4 edges. Let that sit in your ice chest for a week or so, and keep it in the sun. Now be careful becaust that corn is now sour and will smell like crap.

Spread that over an area that you have found recent hog signs and hunt it at night.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

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Also....be very concious of your scent. Hogs can't see very well, they have hearing like deer and they have a very powerful sense of smell. If they wind you, you will never see them.

Hope this helps :)

RE: Baiting hogs, need ideas
 

We just stayed on a little island in the Bahamas that had wild pigs. People hunted them by using fresh water as bait. A nice trough of water is hard to pass up when you live on a tropical island.

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Try this. Take two 5 gallon buckets filled with corn and maize or wheat. Pour two cans of beer and a gallon of water into each bucket. Let it sour for 4 or 5 days. Take them to the hunting area and spread one bucket on the ground. Pour one half of the remaining bucket into the empty bucket. Add fresh ingredients to both buckets and hang them about 3 or 4 feet from the ground in trees or strong bushes. Poke one very small hole in the bottom of each bucket. Just large enough to let it drip every few seconds or so. This allows fresh smell to add to ground. Check this setup every 4 to 5 days. Mix new buckets at home and bring to the hunting area. Once the pigs find it, they will tear the ground up and keep coming back for more. Keep us posted. NTH

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A couple of easy ones for you.

1. Use a post hole digger and drill your self a hole about 2 feet deep, layer corn and dirt until full. Then throw some corn around the area. Once the pigs find it it may take while to get all the corn.
2. Use a piece of 4inch black flexable PVC pipe with drain holes, like what you use for a french drain line. Use about 10 feet tie one end with a STRONG line up high 6 feet or better and stake the other end. Fill with corn. The pigs will spend a long time tring to get the corn to come out of those little holes. Also make lots on noise while they eat, so you know they are around.

Enjoy.;);)

RE: Baiting hogs, need ideas
 

tealboy,

The post refering to sour corn is in my opion the best and quickest way to draw in hogs. Another thing that will draw hogs is a salt block (25 lbs) that farmers/ranchers put out for cows. If you can find a small mud hole, just throw the salt block in it, as it desolves it will be soaked up into the dirt, they'll definitely take to it. This will take longer than the sour corn, but works great for the long haul. Pour the corn out near the hole and you'll have two draws for them.

dog1

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add a little sugar to that and you will wind up with drunk hogs!!![8D]

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I agree with the sour corn. I will add a couple of things. Use corn, water, beer, YEAST, RASBERRY JELLO. Hogs go nuts for rasberry jello. I guess after a week or 2 it is rasberry mash. Don't get any of this stuff on you, it won't come off anytime soon.

I have used the post hole digger and flex pipe with the mash. Both work.

Something else to use the day of the hunt is patato chips and patatos. Just throw them out where you put out the mash.

The biggest problem with any of these mixtures are the coons. They eat it to. To fight back the coons add about 1/2 gallon of diesel before you poor it out. The coons hate it and the pigs don't care.

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id go with the sour corn.

RE: Baiting hogs, need ideas
 

these are some good ideas, i gotta try some next time i go hunting for hogs. I always wanted to try to take one with a bow. BUt i think i'll get a tree stand for that first