Decent Start

[BA-IV]

With deer season over, we’ve been making a few rounds. My boy shot the big Barr crossing our pasture after dogs jumped him on the lease and ran him for a good while. I’ve been struggling the past couple years on getting the big barrs to bay up. Maybe it’s the dogs, maybe they’re educated, maybe heavy dog hunting pressure, maybe a combination. I’m usually running em for hours and hours before I can fresh pack em if I wanna get ‘em to stand and bay. It’ll sure aggravate you on letting a good Barr slip through your fingers.






Went again the other day in some high winds and casted some dogs about 2 pm and you could tell they were working something cold. The two plotts went one way and my yella dog(hound cross)  went another cold trailing. They seemed like it was getting hotter on their end and the yella dog was crossing into a place I didn’t wanna fight through, so I caught him up and sent him into the race and he took it away from the plotts and went and bayed the hog. Another Barr and kept running figure 8’s and trying to dump em on sows and shoats. Well he stayed bayed for about 15 mins in a thick bottom and it looked like it broke, he was moving slow, figured he got hit hard and sure enough he came out packing his guts outta pretty good hole in his stomach. I took him to the vet and told my boy and a buddy to take the two plotts back to where he was bayed and they’d catch that hog. Hog must have been cocky cuz they set down and bayed while I was at the vets. They caught the hog but when they realized it was a Barr they went ahead and stuck it to make it easier on themselves. Good start to a year with two good hogs minus the yella dog being on mend for a few weeks.





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[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Yeah Ben,,, thats some fine ones..  A feller usually pays a small price when you catch ones like that dont matter what dog is on him..    When I had still hunted curs before they all died out,, I use to feed them cur dogs in to the race that them plotts had started in them bad thickets..  I miss having them sometimes ,, You can see em on the garmin pull out on that track 80-120 yards ahead and it most of the time would push that hog out of his comfortable trott and wind him out where he would find a place to set quicker..  Kinda using the best of both dog worlds if you will...  This spring holler at me and we will make a round when you can   

[NLAhunter]

Good barrs hope old yella gets healed up

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[t-dog]

Man those are good hogs for sure BA-IV.  They’re running so hard because of what was taken from them the last time they didn’t. They don’t know what else you could take but they ain’t gonna stand around to wait and see! I can’t blame’em!!!

Highwater, I agree with your thought process.


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[Cajun]

  It must be something in that no. :a/ water. Last year when we were up there we ran two barrs way longer then we should have, Caught them both but took longer then it should have. Fine hogs man.

[make-em-squeel]

thats a beast 

[BA-IV]

Yeah Ben,,, thats some fine ones..  A feller usually pays a small price when you catch ones like that dont matter what dog is on him..    When I had still hunted curs before they all died out,, I use to feed them cur dogs in to the race that them plotts had started in them bad thickets..  I miss having them sometimes ,, You can see em on the garmin pull out on that track 80-120 yards ahead and it most of the time would push that hog out of his comfortable trott and wind him out where he would find a place to set quicker..  Kinda using the best of both dog worlds if you will...  This spring holler at me and we will make a round when you can   

Yeah I’d enjoy it! Always like watching good plotts work!

[BA-IV]

  It must be something in that no. :a/ water. Last year when we were up there we ran two barrs way longer then we should have, Caught them both but took longer then it should have. Fine hogs man.

A lot of the issue was educated hogs dumping young dogs off on sows and shoats. I’m a firm believer some dogs won’t be dumped off no matter what tricks a smart hog pulls, but they are rare as hens teeth. Most young dogs don’t much care what they catch or bay, but it’s hard to hold it against em tying hogs behind em!

[williamsld]

Some nice hogs!!

So what I’m hearing is y’all are having to put yella dogs over hounds to get the job done lol!


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[The Old Man]

Man those are some good'uns Ben heck of a hunt.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Some nice hogs!!

So what I’m hearing is y’all are having to put yella dogs over hounds to get the job done lol!


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LOL...  Man One of the best hog dogs that I have ever seen in my life was a yeller dog... i cant tell you how much I enjoyed owning that male dog and hunting him..  It was like he spoke english and he knew what I was thinking, where I wanted him to hunt and where the hogs were...  Those dogs come far and few between from what I have seen.. One thing about this game we play,, itll show you all dogs can bark at a hog but only some of em can be called hog dogs.. 

[BA-IV]

Some nice hogs!!

So what I’m hearing is y’all are having to put yella dogs over hounds to get the job done lol!


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It was a solid line of yella dogs to a solid line of hounds that produced my male and his sister.  I’ll give credit where’s it due though, they’re just a hound in a yella slicker suit

[Shotgun66]

Dog work don’t get much better than that……heck of a job man! Nice hogs as well!


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