Lol JP I'm still ready to come down there... Don't mind having my butt handed to me or my meat dogs! Just makes it a little easier the next time around!
I have never said I have the best dogs... Ever. But I do like my dogs and wouldn't feed them if I didn't think they were worth feeding, or they didn't get their job done...
I'd say either South Sulphur river bottoms up here in NETX, or the Tawakoni lake bottoms we have to hunt are some of the hardest hunting I've been through. Doesn't matter what property we hunt we have to find the hogs... We never know where they are going to be. Almost all hogs around here have been dogged before and run like track stars... And the population seems to have gone down quite a bit as well in recent years.
When we hunt the lake bottoms you never know what kind of terrain you'll end up in... Cat claw thickets, regular thorn thickets, ankle to knee to waist deep water, mangrol tree thickets, crossing deep creeks, waist high lake bottom brush that you can't see through, and the list goes on... Then you add 20-40 degree weather in winter or 110 degree summer hunting and it starts to get interesting. We normally put down anywhere from 4-10 miles on foot on most good hunts... So that's tough in itself.
I've been lucky enough to be able to run dogs all over this state, and when it gets thick anywhere it's never easy... But I will say, the dogs tend to have a harder time in dry piney woods than anything. Idk whether it's because they are just not used to it at all, or don't have a cold enough nose to follow an older dryer track, or what... But it just seemed to give them more trouble. Nonetheless, my dogs seem to have done fairly well no matter where I drop them at. Really can't expect anymore out of them honestly. Not currently feeding anything that I don't like, so I guess that's a good thing I think. I'm always up for any challenge for my dogs and I though...
