Somerset 4-09-09

Last night we went to a place in somerset along the medina river. We started walking along the river because my buddy had been there all week looking for cows. He didnt find many cows but he found hogs everyday. We walked everywhere he saw them and nothing we followed the river pat where he had seen them and after a coupe hundred yards we struck. We thought they were across the river so we crossed it where it was real shallow and kept going to find out they were actually on the other side so we had to go right back across to where we first crossed. we got a 150 yards away turned the pits loose and started going that way hoping they were not in the river or on the other side. We got there and it was in a real big thicket that looked like a pile of brush but it was real green. We heard it caught and it sounded pretty good no squealing just grunting. With three catchdogs on it. It ended up being about 250 with some good dog cutters. It cut up a three pits not too bad though.We spent about an hour looking for my garmin my buddy had dropped it.we finally found it and started heading back to the truck. We got close to the river and the dogs had took off the opposite way. We stopped to wait and heard stuff moving by the river. My strike dog came back and hauled in there. She bayed in about 30 seconds we waited for my buddys dog to join in and cut the pits loose. When we did we herd i think the most grunting i have ever heard. I thought it was just a big pack ran in there and saw this 150 pound sow caught. 5 yards behind them was the biggest boar i have ever seen i think it was 400 no problem only me and one other buddy saw it. His dog chased it i pulled my dog off out her on the trail hoping she would find it with him. A minute later i looked on the garmin she was seven hundred away we stopped to listen and she was bayed and his dog was flying to her we ran up there crossed the river in knee deep water and ran on top of the hill and they had a 200 pound sow bayed in some cattle pins. I shined the light it broke out running down the river and a minute or too later they stopped it about 300 yards away we crossed the river ran down the river bent and we had to cross the river only me and one buddy crossed with the catch dogs only this time we had to swim it was about 4 foot deep. the other two guys stayed on the other side holding everything so it didnt get wet. We ran up there and had a 200 hundred pound sow caught. No pics cause i didnt want the camera to get wet. We headed back to the truck get 40 yards away and my buddys dog started a differnt pack of hogs.We ended up killing two a mile and a half apart from each other. Both were hundred pound sows. No pics of those two either sorry. We started at 10 and left at 2. We caught five and the dogs are going to need a good break after this hunt.