Sam Houston National Forest is a good spot to go if you are near Houston. It is really the only place to go unless you have an airboat to run the swamps.
I joined this forum to learn and pick up info and this is my first post.
Last year was my first year where I got serious about Hunting and spent some time tracking hogs in the SHNF.
1st thing is to wait for deer season to end because the wardens are everywhere and it is hard enough to hunt in the Park so I just let the deer boys have their fill and then it is my turn to have the whole forest all to myself after deer season.
last year I spent approximately 10-12 days hunting and learning the forest. Of those 10 days I saw hogs on 4 occasions and took shots twice and saw deer on almost every occasion. Also 1 bobcat that chased off the pigs I was seconds away from shankin!
My technique is to go scout a day before hand and just try to find the freshest tracks and wallows that is down in the bottomlands. I have tried to stalk and find them and never saw a hog this way. All of my spottings have been while sitting and waiting in a high traffic area. I got this one which is my first hog and kill ever.
My problem now is that it is all I think about!!! I have the bug badly and watch hunting shows almost exclusively now. I am already studying the topo maps I found free online and planning my next few days unfortunately for me it will be January 20th again when deer season ends and nobody is left in the woods at all. Which is perfect! Oh yeah I am hoping to see sasquatch also since that is teh #1 area in Texas for sightings. I may be famous come next Spring with my first sasquatch kill!!!