Fishing for pigs?

[EddieWalker]

Not really. We where fishing at the pond this evening and this group of six wild hogs showed up on the dam. I'm sure the grass will be all tore up there, but at least it was fun seeing them.

 

[prichard]

Looks like dinner or a lot of dinners to me

 

[Budweiser John]

I'll bet catching one of those critters with a fly rod would keep a guy busy for an hour or so.
B. John

 

[dragoneggs]

I love it! Those are wild? No such thing around these parts.

 

[stuckmotor]

Eddie,
We're fortunate enough not to have wild hogs, so I don't know much about them. Can you tell if those are razor backs, domestic hogs gone wild, or a mix?

 

[Thall303]

Those hogs are probably just the beginning of trouble for years to come!

 

[MF283]

yum, BACON:thumbsup:

 

[cqaigy2]

100 yard swimming beaver is a pretty good shot!

 

[quicksandfarmer]

The color and location are right for Red Wattles (Red Wattle hog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). It's hard to tell from the pictures but the ears and body shape don't seem quite right, I can't really make out the faces to see if they have wattles.

 

[EddieWalker]

No telling where they all came from, but you will see all sorts of variations in coloring on them. I've seen them with large white sections in the middle of them, lots of spotted ones, red ones,brown ones and of course, all black. Some have the razor back look, others hardly have any hair at all. Unlike domestic pigs, they all have straight tails and their ears are standing up.

Tusks are rare. I've only shot a few with tusks of any size, and the biggest was a sow that had them over 2 inches long, but only weighed a little over 100 pounds. She surprised me, I was expecting her to be a boy!!!

We're going to try for them tonight.

 

[stuckmotor]

When my dad was a boy in the SC low country people used to notch the ears of their hogs for identification and let them run wild. The notch pattern was recorded at the court house. I can't remember how he said they divided a hog that someone killed and found it belonged to someone else.

 

[RobertBrown]

Dam pigs! I guess.....

 

[roadhunter]

I love it! Those are wild? No such thing around these parts.

No. They are escaped from the so called "hunting" operations that are so popular in that part of the world. They charge people to hunt these "Wild Russian Boar" and occasionally some get out of the petting zoo/hunt clubs fences. With few real predators such as lions they reproduce like rabbits.