Dang things showed up on my land last Spring and are 100% nocturnal. They wallowed enough to make a neat little forage pond absolutely useless. It is now mud soup. I drove in some T posts on the deer feeders to keep them from turning them over. They dug up the T posts on one, turned the feeder over, mangled the lid, tore up the timer, and got to the corn. On the others, they just turned them over and bent up the barrels and the timers. I now have the T posts driven in at an angle alongside the feeder legs and triple wired. They have been digging at the T posts that I set to wire my game cams to. I've taken the game cams in and don't know about their future. I was amazed to find that they had been digging around the legs of a tripod stand. Surprisingly, they are grazing my wheat patch food plot like cattle and are rooting it very little.

I have 2 traps that they won't go in but don't mind pushing them sideways to get to the bait. Those traps are heavy; real heavy . More T posts coming.

I have day leased my place twice on weekends but nobody has seen a hog. There are tracks everywhere and last weekend they showed up after the hunters had given up about 2:00 A.M. How do I know? They dug some more around 2 feeders.

I read that they are the 4th most intelligent species after man, apes and dolphins. I'm not sure that they aren't smarter than me. So far they have whipped me pretty badly. My 8 year old Grandson and Partner is the only one that has shot one. We smoked it and it was pretty dry. Good pork is pretty inexpensive so I'm not too impressed with them as a food source.

It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.

Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa