Mountain WMAs

[HawgDawg95]

Ive always hunted the WMAs further south where its a lot more flatter, but im looking to get into some of these upland WMAs. I dont think i know what im getting myself into lol

Are there any WMAs i should most definitely check out? Which ones are going to be easier? Do the hogs usually stick in the valleys?

 

[Doug B.]

Ive always hunted the WMAs further south where its a lot more flatter, but im looking to get into some of these upland WMAs. I dont think i know what im getting myself into lol

Are there any WMAs i should most definitely check out? Which ones are going to be easier? Do the hogs usually stick in the valleys?

Easier? Ha ha!! Nothing is easy here in the mountains!

I'm not sure why you want to limit yourself to WMA's when there is so much National Forest, but you hunt to suit yourself. With that being said, Warwoman WMA has a good population of hogs. Swallow Creek also has hogs.

Hogs don't "stick" to anywhere. Don't be surprised to try to climb around these mountains and never see a hog when you are in hog sign all day! Then one day without warning you are all in hogs!

 

[HawgDawg95]

Easier? Ha ha!! Nothing is easy here in the mountains!

I'm not sure why you want to limit yourself to WMA's when there is so much National Forest, but you hunt to suit yourself. With that being said, Warwoman WMA has a good population of hogs. Swallow Creek also has hogs.

Hogs don't "stick" to anywhere. Don't be surprised to try to climb around these mountains and never see a hog when you are in hog sign all day! Then one day without warning you are all in hogs!

Ive never really hunted national forest but I definitely wouldnt mind doing so. Just that looking for new areas to hunt would minimize my scouting as the national forest is so huge i wouldnt know where to start with it lol

 

[Robust Redhorse]

Chattahoochee, Chestatee, Dawson Forest, Coopers Creek, there are plenty of hogs up here.

 

[HawgDawg95]

Chattahoochee, Chestatee, Dawson Forest, Coopers Creek, there are plenty of hogs up here.

Thanks ill try to scout some of it out! Any particular areas that usually hold hogs?

 

[livinoutdoors]

Thanks ill try to scout some of it out! Any particular areas that usually hold hogs?

Doug b up there had it right. They lay sign in the creek bottoms or oak flats n then travel a mile up the rd the next day. This time of year a source of green something or other may hold em. It really is just a guessing game most days.

 

[Thetrooper]

Mountain hunting in N. GA is 95% closed canopy mature forest with an understory of rhodendenron and laurel that can be the size of your driveway or 100s of acres. The other 5% is cliffs or bouldered areas aside from the occasional burn or such. It's steep everywhere you go unless you're on a road that follows the creek bottom. Most pigs I've encountered have not been in the bottoms. They seem to be nomadic for the most part when you're in the pigs you're in them then they move on with the food. I was in pigs this fall me and my bro managed to kill a few then the area has since been pigless for the better part of 2 months now. I will certainly shoot a pig up north but more opportunistically when bear hunting. If I am targeting pigs for sheer success ratio I go down south. There's way more pigs and they're a heck of a lot easier to get to.

 

[TMK Enjoyer]

Swallow Creek WMA has monster hogs, hard hiking involved. Very rough terrain but very beautiful.

 

[bfriendly]

If you haven’t been to Cohutta, it’s a must see kinda place! I’ve seen a MONSTER hog there once, and lots of others on several occasions.

 

[Gbr5pb]

Killed my first hog on Cohutta and missed my first hog on Cohutta

 

[stickandstring96]

I did a week long turkey hunt in Cohutta in 2022. The only thing we killed was a 150 pound sow. She stepped out with a piglet right before I was going to start cranking on the box call. We were in a creek bed at about 1000' elevation, but the immediate area was relatively flat, surrounded by hills on both sides, a valley I suppose. There was tons of rooting and it looked like the hogs had been frequenting this area. Over 7 days in the woods those were the only pigs we saw. But as bfriendly mentioned, the area is absolutely gorgeous. I can just imagine how it is in the fall.