buck460XVR
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Porkies are vegetarians. Around here, their winter diet consists of conifer needles, buds and the bark of pines, hemlock, maples and birch. From Spring thru fall, they will eat shoots, succulent twigs, roots, seeds and fruit/vegetables (both wild and domestic). The reason they crave salt so much is because the Porkies need sodium to rid their bodies of high levels of potassium they get from eating leaves and bark. From my experience, porkies travel the same routes over and over and their dens and these trails are relatively easy to spot, especially in the winter time. They also have a distinctive habit of defecating in the same place, many times using the same hollow tree or stump for most of their lifetime. Their scat piles are very easy to identify. Finding these places would tend to lead to success, IMHO, more than the specific bait you use.