It is time for the 2016 thread and I want to do things a little different this year. I am not going to update the totals near as often but try to post more stories and pictures. I am terrible about taking time to take pictures. But, I will do my best.

We finished 2015 with 700 on the head. Hope to hit the 1,000 mark this year. With great word of mouth and radio advertising we have picked up some great new properties and things are looking very promising! Hopefully, I will have a great catch tonight to start the year out with a bang!

Kill em all!

Good luck!

What Remington 270 said!

Guys and gals,

Trapping is smoking hot right now. I caught a sounder of 13 last Saturday night at our hunting club. And I have clients knocking them out of the park right now.

Had 5 pigs at trap from 1830hrs to 0245hrs last night. 3 piglets entered the trap but didn't trigger. Fat preggo sow ate corn to trap door...looked in and ate what she could...and backed out. smh

What kind of trap. Size door?

Root trigger trap that I talked to you about on the phone a couple weeks ago. 1 door is 4' wide and the other is 8'. They'll get hungry soon...all their food was washed away in the Christmas flood.

Food is running out quick.

Really need to catch that preggo sow! Looks like she's bout to drop a dirty dozen

We caught 3 big prego sows Sat night. I didn't do a fetus count. After backstrapping 12 I was tired.

Got the preggo sow. She just couldn't turn down that jar of old fig preserves.

Congrats!

Becca and I set up a trap on Dec 5th in Wilcox County. The location had been prebaited about 3 weeks and the pigs finally started hitting it hard. Just so happened that this activity picked up right when the acorns ran out.

Since the trap was set up we have caught pigs in it 5 times for a total of 23 pigs. The interesting part is that 10 of these were large very pregnant sows.

If it had been about catching large numbers, we could have waited until the sows delivered and it would have added another 60+ pigs to the totals. But, we target sows no matter what.

We caught on the following dates; Dec 11th, Dec 22nd, Dec 25th, Jan 9th, and Jan 18th.

After each catch we cleaned as much of the pig poop out of the corral as possible. Did not concern ourselves at all with the blood.

I think this demonstrates the importance of cleaning up after a catch and following the process.

That will def be part of our process with our next catch. Haven't really had that prob until this last catch. She was in there @5hrs and made a mess.

Had a client with a single trap in Bullock County last week catch back to back nights with catches of 13 and 15.

2016 starting out pretty good. We have killed 45 hogs so far this month but that is well down from last years 117. I started looking at the numbers and noticed something else was very different this year.

In 2015, about 80% of our pigs were very young. This year we are not catching hardly any small pigs. In fact it seems the sows are late giving birth this year for some reason. We have killed 14 pregnant sows this year already. Last year the sows caught were all with very small piglets.

I have no explanation as to why this is happening. And I have no problem catching pregnant sows. I think it is great. But, it dang sure impacts the catch numbers! LOL

Get you a go pro or like camera...we love your pic's

We have a go pro, I just need to make sure I take the time each time to take it and use it. Thanks!

We got 9 more this morning off of our hunting club. The ole Jager Pro trap is hammering them. We set that trap up on Dec 5th and have caught 6 times in that trap in that location.

It is all about following the process. Six catches in under 2 months in a single trap. Pretty darn good ROI!!!!