re: Best bait for hogs?

I had a problem with coons cleaning out the corn before the hogs could get to it. Now I wet a bag of rice bran and let it sour/mold. It forms big chunks. Nothing touches it except hogs.

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Wild hogs may be hunted with the aid of feed/bait except whole, chopped, or ground-up grains. Bait/feed may be placed on or above the ground, year-round, in any type container for the purposes of hunting wild hogs only.

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So no corn and cant bury

i know that this sounds strange but, the best bait i ever used is grape koolaid (powder). pour it all over a stump and you will see

Bait works best if you have the chance to let it set undisturbed for a few days (nights really as that is when they are most active)

I ususally bait an area and do't return for 2-3 days. When I return, preferably during the day, if I find good sign I freshen the bait and hunt that night. If I dont find good sign I add bait makign sure to get some high up on tree limbs to increase the ability of the wind to spread the smell. Then I return in 2-3 days.


Hogs are smart animals that in my opinion do not pattern well because they are the top predator/animal in most systems. There are few other animals that can take an adult hog and the hogs know it. They move around merely guided by their stomachs and noses. If they feel human intervention is too much or if they have a bad experience with humans and pick up the smell they may cycle out of an area for 2 weeks. The range of wild sounders is estimated to be 2-6 miles depending on food sources.


Personally, if I was going into an area for the first time to hunt with LOTS of really fresh hog sign like scat, rubs, fresh prints, and fresh rooting, I would likely not bait

If I was going in to hunt and there was good sign but mostly fresh tracks, but no scat and few rubs or rooting, I would likely bait with some scattered bait around the trail to slow them down and spread them out.

If I was going in to hunt an area with little to no sign I would likely eith use nothing, or bait with a strong smelling and airborn dispersable aroma type bait like really well soured corn, or dry rasberry jello or fruit flaored koolaide. I would not expect to see a hog that hutn but would return to hunt that area several times in the following days.


I have tried the sow in heat stuff and have had no sucess but that is anectdotal as I only t4ried it once.



One last note: don't over look the value of minerals to bring in pigs. They will come back to a salt lick day after day and they don't mind digging for it.

Just remember the rule:


See a hog shoot at hog and if you see a bunch of hogs shoot the one with the biggest tits.

Buddy popped one in the head with a .17, dropped it, and it managed to wiggle into the brush, was late so we didn't track it. I put round up the a-hole of a decent size one because all it was showing me was it's arse and it was getting dark, we didn't track that one either but I could hear it squealing for a good little while behind my blind.

Apparently rasberry jello works best out there.

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Texas Heart shot

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Unintentionally put one on a 9pt this season as it was running away from me up a hill. He didn't take another step. Cleaning him smelled like arse though, took me 3 hours to get him back to the camp because of where he was and how far my 4 wheeler could go.

Hogs are some tough mofos too, I shot a deer. I actually shot him through a hind quarter right beside the a-hole, 150gr .270 core lokt, bullet went to the heart and exploded. No exit wound. There were lead shards everywhere and the heart was ground meat, along with most of the lungs and intestines. Good thing he dropped because there was no blood, it only came back out of the entrance wound as I drug it back when I lifted it over logs and onto the 4wheeler

Put your corn in Jello. scatter 50 yards or so from your feeder or corn pile. Works like a charm