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Title: Wet Hunt Post by: TShelly on May 12, 2019, 07:23:09 am This water is killing some of our good hunts. We planned a hunt on a pretty nice place we only hunt once a year. It’s some prime river bottom with some hills and pine plantation surrounding it. Of course the recent rains have the river bottom swollen and a mess. Anyways decided to go ahead a make a run since it’s already warming up pretty good.
I only carried my two 8 month old pups. Mathew, Riley, Marshall Mims and Willey all brought there dogs. We cast out started in on hogs. It wasn’t long and we were all split. I stayed with Mathew most of the day. Too much went on to give a detailed hunt. It was pretty steady hogs until about 1 we started gathering dogs with the rain coming. All the dogs did pretty good. My pups started a couple hogs and made every race. I guess not long after we started we were going to one of Mathews older dogs that had carried a shoat off that initial cast. We pulled up and sent our pups to them and caught the shoat. We got back to the buggy and was gonna try to get back up in some high ground. My gyp pup drifted off and started opening, the male wasn’t far behind. They got over about 250 yards and really started singing. Matt’s old dog went to them then, they ran about another 500 yards and bayed solid. We dumped the box and they were all singing to a 200# boar hog. My male dog met us at about 40 yards from the bay, I knew he had been popped. Got his first good cut up under the chin and probably got his feeling hurt. He followed me back in and was baying. Matt’s old dog rolled off from there and opened a few times back up on a hillside. All the pups went in there and after about 5 min they finally had a bay going. Solid 150# boar they all caught after a short race. We get back to the buggy and are gathering up dogs when my pups open up again and start running. Everything packs to them and now we got a race. They run about half an hour then bay, it breaks makes a couple more big loops and then the dogs finally go down into the swollen river bottom and bay. We had split bays about 80 yards apart for about an hour. I finally convinced Matt to swim across since he had more dogs over there lol. After all that we decided to get up on some higher ground. Dumped everything on a big track and not long they had him up and running. Caught a pretty rank boar hog to end the day. We ended up with around 15 total. It’s hard to keep count with all that water and that many dogs. Good hunt all the way around. Everyone’s dogs did good. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/dcad7c3c0dd20dcb76444a743d8a1efb.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/8c1469ccc4fca0f66e3845dbec002733.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/62833dd8e26817042547268b16131c03.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/bd7a7d237a3275e54467326513785e36.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/5bb8740fb4dd6f4581fbb673c6775266.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/7e9f0b38fdd7e10e7a3f0e5cb53ba247.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/ccc773281968169f5a1c95e7b476864b.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/8afbe68db36b028c93e35f0876327171.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/d241b319c2d7d0ee3df3696c00b3c79f.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/f2eb7f69e4d690cd5c3205e8ff7b0790.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/c660de78479c71b7fe4e0abc27a7143c.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190512/46575d5a8f6594b37a7b2da206f81af1.jpg) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: RBz_OFFROAD on May 12, 2019, 08:26:22 am That is a great catch! Them hunts will definitely help the pups. Good job
Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: Austesus on May 12, 2019, 08:40:03 am Man that sounds like an awesome hunt! It sounds like your pups are on fire too
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: t-dog on May 12, 2019, 09:45:57 am That sounds like a good time. I sure love watching those young dogs figure it out.
Sent from my SM-G892U using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: TShelly on May 12, 2019, 11:04:13 am That sounds like a good time. I sure love watching those young dogs figure it out. Sent from my SM-G892U using Tapatalk Yessir. Obviously most of the other guys old dogs did most all of the work, but sure was glad to see them hang and roll like that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: NLAhunter on May 12, 2019, 08:40:32 pm Dang good hunt like to see them puppies doing that at young age
Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: Mike on May 13, 2019, 06:59:39 am Helluva a hunt Tony... ol Matthew is a hand in the woods for sure... and water haha!
Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: Judge peel on May 13, 2019, 11:02:20 am Nice hunt fella
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: GOODEN on May 13, 2019, 01:16:56 pm Good hunt. Them some nice looking pups too!
Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: Cajun on May 13, 2019, 04:24:56 pm Great hunt. Man I might have to breed to one of those dogs to put more bark and color in those Plotts.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: TShelly on May 13, 2019, 06:23:08 pm Great hunt. Man I might have to breed to one of those dogs to put more bark and color in those Plotts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I can certainly point you in the right direction to some good male dogs if ever needed. All workings stock dogs. I’ve always been a gyp man, Briar was my only male dog I owned that I would breed to. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: TShelly on May 13, 2019, 06:26:42 pm Helluva a hunt Tony... ol Matthew is a hand in the woods for sure... and water haha! That water sucked and we were worried about gators pretty good. Made for an interesting hunt. Matt’s a hand. Always fun hunting with him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: shadygrovehawgdawg on May 15, 2019, 10:21:12 pm Sure do like the looks of those pups. Good luck with them and good hunt. Water is way up here too.
Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: Wmwendler on June 10, 2019, 05:21:56 pm Brindle dogs eh? I'm all out of mine nothing but black around here right now. Looks like a good hunt.
Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: TShelly on June 12, 2019, 09:18:18 am Brindle dogs eh? I'm all out of mine nothing but black around here right now. Looks like a good hunt. Yessir the brindle side goes back to CB’s daddy and more similar to that stuff that Jasper was. Just east texas junk lol I still got some black ones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Wet Hunt Post by: justincorbell on June 12, 2019, 11:37:52 am cant beat a day like that amigo, glad to hear your pups are rolling good.
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