EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

.... just jokin! ;D

Why is it when you have to produce it just doesn't work out? Last night I was so frustrated and wore out I told Chris and Mandi I was selling the dogs and ETHD and finding a new hobby. :o

Long story short:

We had a journalist fly in from St.Louis doing a story on the urban hog problem in the Houston area. He writes frequently for the New York Times and is an editor for a magazine in St.Louis in which he just did a real nice write up about the hog problem in Missouri. This article is for national monthly based out of Washington D.C. I told him all of our city properties are hit and miss because we've pretty much taken care of the problem, but that I had a few deals in the works if he wanted to wait a little while. He had a deadline to meet and couldn't wait.

Friday, we hunted 15 hours on three different properties I have in NE Harris County... caught a ten pound shoat. We stopped once for about an hour to visit with the Sherriff's Dept. livestock officers and then ate lunch/dinner at 5:00.

Got home at 11:00 and was back on the road at 4:00 Saturday morning heading to Fort Bend County which has produced all winter. Hunted till 3:00 on two different properties that Chris and Mandi have... nada! Interviewed with some homeowners down there and called it a day.

Getting desperate now, I called Mr.George out in Waller County to see if they've been seeing any and he said "Yeah, y'all come on out". Now we've hunted Harvy's ranch a few times and have always caught some nice hogs. Matt met us out there with some fresh dogs at daylight this morning. After several hours of hunting and no sign since the rain that night, we were about to throw in the towel... Malcom had to catch a plane. We loaded all the dogs and headed across the ranch to check one last block of woods and bingo...  there was fresh tracks and rooting. Dumped the dogs and within a couple minutes we had a sow bayed and caught.

I've never hunted this long and hard over three days and six different properties to catch one hog! They even made me smile for the picture! ;D

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Yeah Mike you just don't look like yourself, with a smile ;D

Good deal mike glad yall finally got one

Thats about how it goes sometimes.Good Job and Congrats.

It always seems hard to produce when you are counting on it. O0

That's why it's called hunting, lol

I was reminded that yesterday also... >:D

Yep, I know the feeling. Seems like the last 3-4 folks that have come to visit from out of State...we have had the same problem. :(

Never fails ;D   At least you caught something!

Holy crap! Mike smiling, this one's going on the bulletin board. ;D Good job.

Good job guys!  You guys paid your dues for that one.

I knew you had teeth....I just hadn't seen them before.

Tough hunting this past weekend for sure. 

Malcolm was a trooper, Saturday we hit a creek bottom that was absolutely covered in blackberry vine and poison ivy from waist to chest high. One the way into the bottom Malcolm got to deal with a cottonmouth, then commence to dealing with the vines for the next 2-1/2 hours while the dogs were trying to work things out. Never a complaint.


This weekend was tough on the dogs as well, we ran 10 different cur dogs and 2 catchdogs for the weekend.
We ended up with 4 dogs with blown pads - 1 stays in a rough concrete kennel, 1 stays on a 20' chain, 2 in stay loose dirt kennels. These dogs are typically hunted at least twice a week and are not prone to blown pads. So I am not sure what got to them as the ones with the blown pads did it in their first hunt.

One dog hunted every hunt every day. He had his good moments and his bad ;)

There was one dog that really stood out this weekend. Mike's Cheyenne dog, the ole girl is better than 9 years old, she hunted Friday all day, she stayed on the ground the entire time, never once catching a ride on the mule. She clocked just over 31 miles on the GPS, and when we were headed back to the the truck Friday evening she was still busting brush looking for swine. Saturday AM she was bouncing off the chain at 4:00am ready to go again, but Mike left her home to save her for Sunday.  Sunday she did it again, gave 100% the entire hunt.  I thought it was pretty neat that the ole girl showed up several of the younger dogs.

Overall I was really pleased with how the dogs performed this weekend. Had we been covered up in fresh sign and not been able to catch hogs, then I would have been upset.

Glad it worked out Mike! That is one reason I'll never actively pitch a tag-along with the Lacys. Sure, it would be a great way to show them what the breed was created for, but I don't want to drive all over hell and creation to catch one sow!

At least he didn't puke on your shoes. We had a History Channel director with us in March when three of the Lacys decided to go ahead a catch a little boar. I had showed him pictures and explained the process in detail, plenty of warning about what would happen, but he still turned white as a sheet.

sorry about the bad luck Mike, at least ya'll ended on a somewhat decent note :)

now thats a first Mike smilin  ;D

sorry about the bad luck on the hunt.

after i have a bad hunt i always say "if it was easy everybody would be doin it.." makes me feel a little better anyway.

  next time you go you will fill the truck with hogs

I enjoyed the hunt yesterday and I really liked being outside hunting with the cooler temps outside.  I am also happy that I decided to go on the hunt that had hogs to be caught haha  ;D
MG

You know that is how it goes. Take new people or try to get some good pictures or video and it never works out.

I went on friday with a landowner and friend and caught 6. Bryant asked me why he is never on those good hunts. I said because I was by myself and I can say I caught as many as I want. ;D

Krystal, this is all your fault... but we still love you! ;D

Thanks everyone, it was a frustrating weekend, but I enjoyed it. Malcom learned a lot about the hog problem in the urban areas, how affective dogs are in solving the problem and a lot about hog hunting with dogs.