Here's a monster for "Monster Quest"

[elliscountyhog]

  Nice hog!!!  See matt u in shape guys get to the bay faster and get to see all the action but without us big boys it is tuff to get them bigguns under controll .

[uglydog]

Yeah, I was jealous when I got the phone pic, no doubt. That is a really nice hog, we came up empty handed that night on our hunt, so had to make it out again the next night we got a pretty good one but does not compare to yalls boar, guess I will just have to keep trying that is my excuse anyway.

Matt, I figured as wound up as you were, all jacked up on all that syrup that yall could have jerked him right out f that water hole. !!!!

Mandi, I can tell you were the smartest in the bunch, you were still clean!

[Circle C]

Krystal,

   Next time y'all should join us.  I think the big hogs are North of I10, not South

[matt_aggie04]

My syrup had fizzled by the time we hit this boar hahaha, we were all kinda getting a little tired till they opened up and then the adrenaline kicked in and I was ready to go.  Derrick said yall got on a good one Sat night.  Post some pics of the hog and tell that boy to send me some pics of that worthless yella dog he has  .

[aladatrot]

Yeah, I was clean... I had stuffed my badly blistered foot into a boot for this hunt, and was having "issues". My eyes were watering a little when I was headed to the bay, so I'm thankful Mike and Matt hopped in. I got to babysit items of clothing, keys, phones, wallets, and cameras on the slippery slope while clinging to a tree. I was also a dog holder for a bit. I don't like that helpless feeling, either. I much prefer to be caught on an ear than up on the bank, but I feared getting all that nasty water into my then-busted burn blisters. Sorry for the gory details, but our hunting party along with Krystal and Thomas had to endure the sight of my foot during dinner - so consider yourselves spared by only having to read about it and not see it.

The action was sick, though. Smiley, Lizzie, and Tweety sounded like a trio of church singers when they opened up all at the same moment. That Lizzie dog has a different bark for smaller pigs versus big ones, so when I heard her, I knew we either had a group bayed or a big hog. We start running (hobbling), cut catch dogs loose, and hear what we thought was brush crashing. Turned out to be the whole bay crashing down into the water. Those dogs were swimming in the water, trying to grab ahold when Matt bailed in the water before he could even see the hog (it was holed up under a bank).  Matt grabs hog, realizes three things - (1) this is a huge hog, (2) his knife is missing, and (3) he is in deep water. Mike shucks his outer layer of clothes and dives in, trying to stick the hog with that spear he normally carries on his belt. It was pretty neat when the hog finally expired and the guys got to really look at the hog. Mike had to babysit the hog in the water while we took out dogs. I'm pretty sure he was on the lookout for gators during his dark time in the water. Once we got back, the process of getting Mr Hog outta there began. It was slow going. The banks were STEEP and SLICK. Mr Hog was HEAVY and UNCOOPERATIVE. I think we used 50 feet of mule tape to heave him out 6" at a time. It took Chris and Matt pulling up the bank, Mike trying to get a foot hold and pushing from below, and me trying dallied off to a tree trying to snatch up the slack and keep Mr Hog from scampering back down into the creek in between heaves.
Great Times. Maybe I won't be all crippled up for the next trip.
M

[matt_aggie04]

Thats when you know your tuff, all that work and I completely forgot about your foot, which looked like hell by the way.  You gotta learn to complain more 

[Clay]

Dang thats a hog glad i wasnt the one pulling on that mule tape.   

[Mike]

Krystal... I told you and Thomas at dinner y'all shoulda came with us!

[aladatrot]

Matt,

I think forcing my foot into that boot was good for it. I spent yesterday walking better in flippies, and today wore a boot again without pain. Getting the boot off is another story, but i think I'm out of the woods. That foot REALLY looked bad two years ago when I stepped off into a pot of boiling crawfish water and got third degree burns on it. Doc was talking skin grafts, but I'm too headstrong and cheap to listen. It healed up with almost no scarring. I think that's why that foot responded so badly to sunburn. A sunburn that bad has never happened to me before. I know it was yuck, sorry I had to have it on display in my flippies. I think it is almost better now, and I can't let being a cripple interfere with good hunting :O)
M

[Circle C]

Same field produced a 345# boar last night. This hog was bayed and shot within a few hundred yards of where we caught the 305 on Friday night.