Big Slough Wilderness

[howie1968]

you have to hike in, it is not visible, there is a real good trail, but i assure you, you will be rewarded once you get to camp it is rustic beautiful and you can fish in the creek good deer hunting not far from there. ive taken alot of does along that trail in past years

[howie1968]

me getting ready to do the 40 mile round trip


catching some meat for lunch


getting water from hickory creek


campin


hickory creek bridge


long bridge that goes over the slough


getting drinking water


taking a break


hickory creek

[..Ambush..]

Oh ok so you gotta hike to it from the road or is it visible when you drive by?

[howie1968]

i know all of that area from ratcliff to neches bluff through big slough like the back of my habnd, like i said i roam it 3 times a year the 4c hiking trail i hke the 40 miles in 3 days there and back, i cache water along the way me and another TBH member go and carrie our trad bows, alot of good hunting along hickory creek as well

[howie1968]

to get to walnut creek camp take 1175 on the left hand side you should see a sign that says 4c hiking trail its about .58 miles from 1175 here are the coordinates to the actual camp from my gps and base camp program 15 R 295472 3484783 i park my truck here 15 R 296419 3484725

[..Ambush..]

Ya we looked for that camp last year but couldnt find it even with directions from the GW.. maybe he was just bad at judging distances or we didn't go far enough. Im sure its primitive camping right or do they have water and stuff?

[howie1968]

Walnut creek camp is a cool camp!!! got kind of a make shift shelter then just north of there gets to be some good hunting, i love big slough i hunt it quite a bit myself especially hogs if you have GPS set to nad 83 and using UTM i can give some waypoints as i have the whole trail from ratcliff to the neches bluff overlook i hike the 20 mile trail to and from about 3 times a year

[..Ambush..]

Haha... you aint kiddin! Closing in and riddled with laydowns and logs. From what ive heard though maybe a kayak would be more suitable this year with all the rain we've had lol.. I think itll be a good thing though, being that all the sloughs and stuff should be full it will limit where they travel and a good crossing could be dynamite! Fairly dry last year, we crossed the ditches pretty easy... just soggy mud for the most part so this should be a very different year at the Slough, looking forward to that first sit in that good ole Neches bottom land! !

[Limbwalker]

^^^ This. A good pair of hiking boots, or maybe a mountain bike if some of the old roads are passable, but they were closing in 20 years ago.

[..Ambush..]

Group of us will be up there Thursday evening for a 4 day trip... bring your hiking boots if you intend to hunt in there, gotta put in the leg work if you wanna get to where the bigguns lay up

[Nocked Up]

I was just looking at a map of the DCNF and the Big Slough Wilderness caught my eye. I was thinking about slippin in there one morning if it will ever cool off. As it is, id be trippin with sweat before i found a good tree to climb.

[..Ambush..]

I've had two different guys look at it they both say Darl, but I don't know... I've never been good at classifying points.

Heres the recovery video

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[GarGuy]

Thank you much... all four inches of it are flawless, best piece ive ever picked up! Just layin there in the sand...

Are you sure its darl? The basal edges look really straight like they are slightly ground and the flaking looks collateral mid way to the tip. Both are uncharacteristic for darl but I really cant see it well enough in thoses pics. Awesome.

[..Ambush..]

Anybody know a good camp close to 517?... supposedly theres some walnut creek camp but we never saw a glint of it

[..Ambush..]

Thank you much... all four inches of it are flawless, best piece ive ever picked up! Just layin there in the sand...