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02-26 & 27-2011 Hunt with Marty C.
I got invited to go on a hunt with my good friend Marty Capers and his wife
Nicole down on the Tensas river. So I loaded up and we meet up in Delhi
Louisiana and I followed Them in to the camp where we would be staying. Got
there and unloaded the dogs and fired up the grill. We cooked some good ol Deer
burgers that Marty brought and sat around the pot belly stove and shot the bull
. We called it a night about midnight and got up at daylight. We arrived at the
land owners property and after a meet and greet we headed out. The first track
we came across was a BIG Ol Bear track. We also saw some fresh hog tracks so we
dropped the dogs and Martys dog Star struck . She ran it for about a mile and
we caught up with her and put my dog boots down with her. They continued to roll
and after another couple of miles we tried to head them off. We caught Star but
Boots got across the river and kept on rolling. Lost him on the GPS at 1.5
miles. After finding our way around to where we lost him at we never picked him
back up . So we went back and rode around for a couple hours trying to find
him. We decided to drop the dogs again and maybe he would hear them and come
back. We put another buddy of ours dogs down and they struck and bayed . Turned
De'Angelo to em and he sealed the deal. Got that hog caught and tied and
loadedup. We went back to the camp and ate lunch and went back at it after we
got our bellys full. A man called my cell phone and told us that he had boots.
I let the land owner talk to him as he knew where the man was at. The land owner
said that he was about 12 miles through the woods. He left to go get boots and
we continued hunting. After hunting for a little while we caught another decent
sow and a shoat . We got back to the camp and one of the guys brought some
frog legs and we fried them up and JUMPED right on em. Man were they good. Sat
around and BS'ed untill about midnight. Turned in and got back up at Daylight .
Turned Martys dogs, Star and River, loose and it wasnt but just a few minutes
they had one going. Turned Boots to em and they got it stopped and caught
without a catchdog. It was a nice sow about 200 lbs. wound up catching 4 little
pigs . Hunted hard for the rest of the day and finally got another shoat about
80lbs. Star and River rolled out and was gone. We tried to catch up with them to
relay some fresh dogs on the hog. we saw the hog cross the road and dropped some
fresh dogs on it. After a little while all the dogs fell out of the race but ol
River was hanging tough. It was getting dark and we sent some of the group back
to the camp to get some flashlights. When they got back River was 1.5 miles
away. While going to him it showed him bayed. We stopped about four hundred
yards away and Marty took De'Angelo and a couple guys with him While I sat at
the four wheelers with the rest of the group. Marty turned De'Angelo loose from
about 150 yards and it wasnt long untill the deal was sealed. All i all it was
a GREAT hunt with 4 decent hogs and 6 shoats . It was a GREAT weekend in the
woods . Being in these big woods witht the giant palmettos and huge cypress
trees was sereal . When I saw this huge cypress tree I was in AWE . Not many
places like this left in the United States. Thanks Marty for the Hospitality
and a GREAT weekend in the woods.
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