Thank y'all.  NLAhunter, sure enjoyed the visit. Glad y'all came by.

Here is one of Showtime. Not to brag but he casts, trails, rigs and absolutely needs no help.


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Thank you Tdog. Sometimes I am proud of them and other times I want to pull my hair out. lol

Showtime was out of Amber who was off of Showboat.  Showtimes sire was Hillbilly.

  Clue, James, Ray and Bob are all good people and they had a inside track on the early Weems bred dogs hunting with Everett Weems a good bit. Dont know if you heard but Bob passed away last year from cancer.
  TDog they are gamey for sure. I have a 3 1/2 month old off Showtime that I call Primetime and another female pup I call Dixie (4 Months) I have knocked a couple of squirrels out to them and they are squirrel crazy. Only problem is Ole Primetime grabs the squirrel as soon as it hits the ground and takes off running with Dixie in hot pursuit. Next day they are crapping squirrel hair. lol

  TDog, Yes I can tone them back. I never used to have a problem with Tap a talk but something has changed. I guess I will have to start downloading them to a host site and then uploading them on here. Pain in the rear.
  NLAhunter, You are more then welcome to come by anytime. I am usually around if I have some notice.

Clue i just saw your response. At that time we were still in a serious drought. They did bay him the first time by a pond so maybe they got wet. It was too hot that day to be running  but we went anyway.

Made a hunt with Scotty Needham and Blake Joiner. This club we hunt in, you can only run dogs from 10:00am to 2:00 pm during deer season. We fooled around and never found anything fresh. Went to a food plot where a good boar had been there at midnight. We put out at 11:00am. Dogs trailed him out and jumped. Ran for a hour and bayed. We saw a hog run across the road as we were going in. Caught a small boar and dogs relayed. Ended up catching another small boar. Went and put on the hog we saw and ended up catching dogs because we were out of time. Tapatalk is still only letting me post 1 pictures.


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  That was my dog Steel and it is a wonder he lasted as long as he did. There are several theories on where it came from but it has been in them a long time. The early Weems dogs threw a lot of Maltese as well as some of Von Plotts dogs. It is a different gene then the Leopards that were introduced into the Plott breed. Some people called it the Blue Delch sp? strain that was in the dogs from the beginning. Other people believed Weimaraner was introduced into them. I think Bob Plott talks about it in one of his books.

Tdog, I can tell you what ole Showtime was saying. He was telling that hog how lucky he was that we showed up cause he was going to chew his head off.

Got together with Scotty Needham, Blake Joiner n Alexander. This club we r hunting in will only let u run from 10:00-2:00 during deer season. That gentleman on the far right is Ray Brown. His brother is James Brown. They have had Plott bear dogs for over 50 years and they hunted the best of the breed in Tn. Ray and Bob Giese were paid by Oliver Smith to hunt Cascade Big Timber all over the country. Ray and James hunted with a lot of the early Weems dogs with Everett Weems. Anyway Ray brought a female in to get bred to one of my dogs and we made a hunt. Dogs rigged a good track and we put out on it. Scotty and Blake said a really good hog had been to a feeder at 6:30 so they headed there and turned out. Well it took awhile but Showtime and Wonder trailed right to the food Plot Scotty turned loose on. Dogs were all spread out but eventually bayed. Went in and caught a nice Russian sow. Before we went in we saw the big boar come out of there with a sow so we turned loose on them. We caught up to them and caught a good spotted sow. By then it was 1:00 and we caught the dogs out.


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I like the Maltese, have had several good ones, in fact the young gyp we just  AI is a Maltese. I have been told you never breed two Maltese together because you can get skin problems. All the Maltese color is is a Dilute black.
  I have not read Steve's article but have known Steve over 30 years. I have read a lot of what he has written on several Websites. Steve's Dad was one of the early Pioneers of the Plott breed and Steve took over his Dad's dogs.

Tdog, It does not matter how they look, it is how they finish out that counts. The better they get, the better looking they are. Your dogs have come full circle. They started out looking to be  Plott , Border collie and now back to a Walker. That is a sharp looking youngster tho.

Tdog and Slim, those are some really good looking pups and young dogs. Hope they make the cut for you.

  I might add that Steve Herd is a very well respected Plott breeder and has been in way longer then me and has a very good strain of Plotts.

  I know if my line of dogs and I get every color a Plott throws. I have not had a Maltese Plott in over twenty years and then a female i have  started throwing them. Maltese and buckskins are a recessive gene and both parents have to carry that gene to have them. Black and black brindle are dominant colors. That being said, I have not found any correlation between color and ability. I have had good ones in every color and culls in every color. I can say that I have not had a bad Maltese but I usually do not keep them. One of the top three Plotts I have owned in over 40 years was a Buckskin. The other one was a reddish brown brindle and the third was a Black with brindle trim female.

  Letmroll, I have never got that kind of speed around here, it is just to much cutover.

  Hey Clue, glad you had a good trip. How is Mr. Norman e rest of the gang doing? We all miss Joe, he was sure fun to hunt with. Joe and Tracy spent the night at our house driving home from Tx. Tracy called me about 5 hours later telling me Joe had passed away. We all hated to hear that. How was Vernon doing? Glad you got some young dogs coming on.

Trapper


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  Actually Andy did. I sold Trapper to Andy's Dad way back when because I got hurt and couldn't work for a while. Trapper would be in the top three Plotts I have had in 40 years. Sassy has Trapper and his littermate sister probably 10 or 11 times in her pedigree. She has done exceptionally well from 8 months old when we started her on hogs and continued through bear season. Real catchy dogs normally do not live long on hogs so when she came in heat during kill season Andy brought it up. Andy is a extremely hard bear hunter and knows what he likes in a dog and Sassy fit the bill. Anyway it was a chance to bring that Trapper blood right back in to my breeding program. We will just have to wait and see if it works or not.