The Cypress Creek Skinning Shed

Rob with his BBQ pig and Ted with his big gobbler

The excitement of turkey season continued this week as we pursued big gobblers with four of the NYPD’s finest. For three mornings we hiked them around our beautiful lowcountry, called like crazy and really had a blast. Unfortunately it was a rough couple of days for turkey hunting, and between the wind and the fog, it just really kept the birds tight lipped. Only Ted killed a longbeard when Marshal, our Quaker Boy pro staff guide, used his best tricks to pull his first turkey in on their last morning. All of the others heard and saw birds, and a there were a couple of real close calls; just no other kills. But that is turkey hunting.

Bob finishing his lowcountry hunt with a nice hog

Along with the NYPD crew, we also had four NC hunters as well as two bow hunters down from MN who spent their afternoons going after the hogs. Jack from NY was the first to shoot a big pig followed by Rob who killed his while we were turkey hunting when a pack of 25 come trotting by. Quite a few others saw sows with small pigs while Jerry, our MN bowhunter who was down with his son Jason, had several shot opportunities on hogs but just didn’t drop the string… he said that he was enjoying his hunt to much!

I also need to congratulate Henry on putting Jeff with our PA group that started turkey season with us on a nice bird before they left. That put that group 4 for 4 on the redheads! Congrats to PA group member Foxy as well for killing a couple of real nice boars over on Boggy Creek during a morning sit and to Bob Jr. for shooting a nice hog on the River tract while they were here.

Foxy with his wife Rose and his two nice boars that he killed over on Boggy Creek during a morning sit.

I am now waiting to get the pictures of a couple of real nice hogs that a young man and his dad killed on Saturday night, and I will get those up along with the details of our two Maryland turkey hunters as soon as I can.

Jeff

Bubba, Tom, Danny, Bob Jr., Marshal and Bob Sr.

Spring has come to the lowcountry of South Carolina and with it, turkey hunting season at Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge. We started off slow with no birds taken on day 1 by our 4 hunters, but the weather was really foggy and the birds just weren’t gobbling for our group down from PA. However with even worse conditions Monday, 3 of our guests killed big toms! Check out Bob Sr. and his guide Marshal, Bob Jr. with owner/guide Danny Harrell and Tom with Bubba “turkey master” Johnson. Congratulations to all of them.

Our successful turkey hunters and five more of their friends are all down for four days, and they have also been after the the hogs. As usual, lots have been seen and quite a few have been missed. But Foxy (Clarence) showed how to do it Sunday Morning on Boggy Creek when he shot two. Their friend Mike from Charleston who came over for one day also added to the hog count when he shot a big sow Sunday night on the River tract.

The elusive lowcountry swamp ape or Henry?

The PA group all headed back to the River last night, and I understand that a lot more pigs were seen and at least one more good hog was killed. The four turkey hunters also have this morning for chasing big gobblers, so I will let you know how they finish up along with some pictures of their hogs in the next day or so.  I will also be backtracking to get some of the pictures of the hogs that our guests killed over the last few days up. However I thought until I can get them up, everyone would enjoy seeing some of the trailcam shots that we got from down at the River…

Jeff

Our guide Henry with a guest from last year and his big tom

Our turkey hunting season here in the South Carolina lowcountry starts up on Sunday March 15th, and we are ready to put our hunters on some big longbeards.

The birds have been gobbling off and on for the last few weeks, but with the warm weather we have had lately, they have really kicked it into gear. The big, segregated flocks of birds have finally broken up, and our hog hunters are now hearing  lots of vocal birds and seeing quite a few gobblers with hens in the food plots, around the feeders and in the freshly burned areas.

We are pretty booked up for the first couple of weeks of the South Carolina turkey hunting season. However we still have some spots later on into April, so call now if you want to get in on pursuing some of our lowcountry redheads. Please note that we will also still be offering some great hog hunts during our turkey season as well. And we do things a little bit differently than some lodges to keep our success rate up. We do this by not hunting the same areas for our hogs as we do for our turkeys. This allows us to keep corn on the ground for the hogs without breaking the no-baiting law for our turkey hunts.

As for our hog hunters, they were still putting down the pork even in the warm weather that slowed our wild hog movement last week as well as in the driving rain this past weekend. Two of the hunters in camp were teenage ladies who were looking to kill a big boar with their bows, and they both got shots at good hogs. Unfortunately we were unable to find either one due to marginal hits. We also had a group down from Maryland, and they did harvest a couple of hogs, and I am now waiting and hoping that they will send the pics on down since I was off the day they left.

We now are back into some really cold weather (it was 20 the last two mornings!), and we have 10 at the lodge this week looking to bag a big hog. Eight are from Maryland, and two are down from Pennsylvania. On Monday night they hunted Boggy Creek and Sandy Run , and several hunters saw hogs but no one took a shot. Tuesday afternoon Bubba and Henry managed to get them down to the River tract after letting the road dry out from our weekend of torrential rains, and they killed a couple of good eating size porkers. I should have the whole story and pictures in my next post. Until then, enjoy some trailcam shots of our birds from last week.

Jeff