Hogs at San Luis Pass

[SCHU]

Anyone heard of some flounder gigger being attacked by hogs at the Pass? Got an email from my son that was in the Kemah paper. Don't know how to get it from the email to here or I'd do it. Just a warnin' to all cause you nevah know what might be lurking out of the lantern light.

[Gater]

Hogs

Nothing suprises me! I have come up on a pack of 50 or so Coyotes in the Diversionary canal, alligators, giant gar, and a few mean bulls coming out of the darkness at 2 am is a liitle scary as well. Gater

[Moonpie]

I call boolcheet.
Been out there eleventybillion times at night and have never seen a hog. Coyotes, alligators, snakes, yep. Hogs no.
Besides hogs run away unless you're jacking with them like messing with the piglets or something.
Pics or GTFO.

[XtremeAngler]

Yeah I might believe the diversion but I dont know about SLP. seems too developed for piggies. Now if we were talking matty I would say there's a possibility because there are tons of hogs out there

[Robalo]

Maybe Moonpie, but no hogs, unless Moonpie is catching/hogging flounder! Seen rattlesnakes, gators, coyotes but never a pig-maybe 1 got free instead of being thrown on the pit-oh, wait, no fires allowed.

Maybe the Toll trolls changed cats into pigs???

[nokatchin]

Ive never seen them or signs of them there.i did see 5 or 6 over off the gravel road by seawolf park a couple years ago.

[Explorer21]

Just got the same email from a friend, read below.

Local man in night-time attack by wild boars at San Luis Pass:

A.C. Adams was flounder gigging on the back side of San Luis Pass last week with
his cousin. His cousin had gone to the truck to drink more beer as it was a slow night
of gigging. A.C. was approximately 100 yards from shore when he heard some loud
splashing coming towards him. He said it was very unnerving because it was so dark
outside of the lanterns’ perimeter. All at once two large vicious hogs in approximately
16 inches of water started attacking him. He immediately lashed out with his flounder
gig and started stabbing a hog. As it made a piercing scream in anger and agony, the
second hog cut him in the leg with his tusk while biting him. A.C. screamed for help
toward the bank at his cousin who never responded. A.C. then turned with the gig
stabbing the second hog and the fight was on. One hog knocked him down to his
knees and bit him on the forearm. A.C. told me, “At first I could not believe this was
happening and then I thought these hogs were going to kill me.” He got back up stabbing
at the hogs over and over as they were snapping at him. Finally, one hog went
down and lay in the water squealing. That left him one on one with the larger hog.
The big boar would not give up and the fight lasted for two to three more minutes with
Mr. Adam’s stabbing the hog twenty-five to thirty more times before it went down. He
limped back to the truck and got his pistol. He woke up his drunken cousin who had
passed out in the truck and they waded back out with the intention of finishing off
both hogs. When they got back out there the hogs were dead. They tied ropes to the
hogs and dragged them up to the bank. They got the hogs loaded into the back of the
truck and stopped by the hospital where A.C. Adams received twenty-one stitches in
his left leg, eight stitches in his right leg, six stitches on his forearm and a tetanus
shot. Here is a picture of A.C. Adams with his two hogs that he gigged while floundering

in West Bay.

[Robalo]

Where's the pic? What happened to the hogs? Sounds like "flying pigs" kinda to me!!

[SCHU]

Yep, thats the one. Pic kinda grainy, but will try to PM Explorer with it.

[coachlaw]

This is real, not fake. Dude killed 'em with his flounder gig. They cut his leg and chomped his arm pretty good.

[weather or knott]

Here is the article
http://seabreezenews.com/back%20issues/1004-Apr_2010/Page_01c.pdf

[aqua pimp]

Why couldn't they be at the pass? I have seen them around Chocolate bay before. I have seen them on the ICW across from Oyster Lake, thats right near the pass. Piggies can swim.

AQUA PIMP

[coachlaw]

I've never seen sign of them on Mud Island, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were there.

[WestEndAngler]

I've seen them before out there! BS to anyone that doesn't think an alligator or hog will come over there! I carry my 40 on me for a reason people self defense.. I've been charged by hogs before... I was yelling kicking & screaming they don't care... Most of my encounters are out in Wallisville where they are THICK! But have seen many up Chocolate & SLP area

[OR19]

NO WAY...a hog came out and attacked a man in the dark standing in a foot an a half of water a couple hundred yard out the bay at the pass; hogs don't act like that, they'll fight if cornered or wounded or a sow with babies, but otherwise unless you are running them with dogs most of the time you wont even know when they are around, especially at night..they run first and fight if they have to...I've done quite a bit of running hogs w/ dogs up in East Texas, my dads got a Kerr dog, Plott hound a couple of big Airedales for catch dogs.

Just my opinion but I think there is more to the story than what got printed in the SeaBreeze news...I don't think any self respecting hog is going to let you stick him 30 times with a flounder gig on open ground????