Texas Fish & Game

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December 28, 2021

East Texas Hog Numbers Have Skyrocketed

A Texas Cooperative Extension survey of 491 East Texas landowners indicates that feral hog populations dramatically increased during the last ten years. Prior to the survey, it was known that feral hog numbers were rapidly rising […]
January 28, 2019

African Hog Caught West of San Antonio

The Red river hog is a native of West-Central Africa and rarely shies from the thick cover of rainforests. That makes the fact Steven Anderson caught one in a hog trap west of San Antonio, TX […]
April 27, 2017

True Colors

With the recent approval of HB3451 which states simply that no poison can be introduced into our fields or woods for the purpose of killing feral hogs without first being tested and researched by independent state […]
April 20, 2017

HB 3451

Victory! As most of you are well aware I along with my friends at the Texas Hog Hunters Association have been working hard to protect our natural resources here in Texas from the ill thought out […]
April 13, 2017

Bowhunting Hogs: Part 1 – Why I Hunt Them?

Some hunters like to hunt pigs…. not me.. I’m a HOG hunter!  Just the word “hog” brings to mind visions of a grunting, snorting, slobbering mouthed boar with giant tusks protruding from his gnarled lip!  I […]
April 6, 2017

Hog Crazy

In keeping with the spirit of the recent hoorah over the major debate on Feral Hogs I thought I would throw out some interesting tidbits of information  that some folks just may not know. In the […]
March 30, 2017

Meeting in The Middle

With all the recent heated debate over the use of Kaput feral hog poison it seems that there is no middle ground.  Speaking with hundreds of ranchers, farmers and hunters over the past few weeks I […]
March 30, 2017

Texas Hotshots – Big Boar

Big boar harvested March 15, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. on the Arispe Ranch near San Diego, Texas.
March 14, 2017

The Poison Truth

As I am sure you all  know by now I have been in the forefront of the fight to keep  the Warfarin based hog poison “Kaput” out of our woods and fields.    So far I […]
March 9, 2017

The Hog Poison Debate is Heating Up

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller  has announced a rule change in the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) that classifies a warfarin-based hog lure as a state-limited-use pesticide.  The pesticide, “Kaput Feral Hog Lure,” is the first toxicant to be listed specifically […]