First pig of the season


It's been a long summer running the Lodge but finally things have started to settle down, the Dogs have been growing fat and the pups Jude & Chi are 13 months old now so time to dust off the boots and run some fat of these lazy pot lickers along with sweating a bit of the poison out of my system.

Eric a young German lad was helping out up the track so I was asked to take him out for a hunt, we started walking at day break with the three older Bitches Ming, Lu and Puk dry & hot would describe the morning as we climbed up towards a wallow hole, Ming soon away and could be heard bailing, so I let the other two off their leads to join Ming but something about her bark didn't sound right and we soon came across the dogs harassing a big stinking Billy Goat, great start to the season girls.

So I shot the Goat then set about having a frank chat with each of the dogs and off we went, if the dogs grab a Goat it's no dinner for then but if they then find a pig it's all forgotten it's then 'all you can eat' for them at The Blue Water Lodge and I genuinely think they are starting to work this out because lately they have stopped a Pig numerous times after first munching on a goat.

Ming was now on a lead after her goat find along with Puk, Lu was out working the hill, we walked onto some fresh pig sign then not long after Lu let out a bark about 150m away, she was barking at something but me of little faith though maybe it was a deer, she started moving away so I let the other two off and away they went after Lu but there must have been a mob of pigs as Ming&amp Lu pulled up a 80lb boar while Lu carried on chasing another pig, anyway me and Eric dispatched the pig a little fat boar around 70lb which we dragged down to the track, I then put on Eric's back and he carried it home, he was very excited about his first days pig hunting and I was please to get on the board with my first pig of the year.
Since then I have had another couple of great hunts bagging this 115lb boar which Ming & Jude stopped right beside the boat so hardly broke a sweat that morning.
And lastly this very fat 100lb sow that Ming, Lu, Jude & Chi stopped.


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