Scouting & Setting Up The Island
My truck was loaded to the max with several types of stands and the other equipment that I might need while I was at the Island setting up to hunt the wild hogs. (Years ago I learned that if you take it all, you don't have to go back for something you didn't think you needed.) I looked around the area were I had seen the hogs Friday. All the trees were Pecan trees, and very old, big around ones at that. I picked one that would give me a shot at the hogs I saw Friday.

I decided to use a ladder stand. However, the tree was so fat that the webbing that came with the stand was not long enough so I used Rope Ratchets to secure the brace in the middle and the seat at the top. (These Rope Ratchets are very handy, I use them all the time for all kinds of hunting tasks.) It didn't take long to set the stand up and test it to be sure it was stable.

The ground is so rooted up that from a distance you would think it had been plowed, which, of course, it has, but not by the disks of a plow. The dirt is dug out deep into the ground. Notice that there is still a little standing water in one area. The rooted area takes a hard left around the pecan tree in the top left side and continues. If you want to see it clearer (larger) here it is big enough to fill your screen and let you better see what this looks like. Island Hog Wallow.

It takes a lot of hogs to do this to the land.

Let's check out the place, first we'll look around the edge of the Island. LET's GO...