Check out Champlain bait and net company or the fish net company web sites. They commercial fisherman suppliers and I think each has few different types. Might give you some good info.

Awesome hunt bro! I can't wait to cut mine loose Saturday morning. Like you said mine hasn't been out since end of last February.

Everybody gonna be in the market for some good lab genetics around here before long.

Looks like they got it to me. I've never worked cows with dogs but my neighbor runs bunch of cow down near river. Suppose to go drive some to rye grass pastures later in winter. Can't wait. He uses curs and heelers. That last pic is great with them held up tight

Get you a farmers almanac and see what it says to plant this time of year for your area.

I had to laugh at that one cracker. Just because I feed my hog my frog scraps too but didn't say it. Figured I was only person that was feeding butcher hog a bunch of random by catch and carcasses.

I talked to a fella that does land management for the paper companies here in la and Mississippi awhile back. He told me about some research that he was part of at the idlewilde research station that the state wildlife and fisheries owns. They were in process of testing hog baits that actually kill the hogs but the thing he said that attracked the hogs the best was bait made with fish meal. Now I ain't gonna spread the secret ingredient he mentioned that does the killing but they definitely like fish smell/ flavor. I also started feeding my butcher hog some fish scraps after some pig farmers told me they loved fish and they didn't lie. That hog tears up some frozen mullets I caught for gar bait.

Depending on how heavy duty you want your hinges I would use cold rolled steel inside a sleeve of standard wall pipe. Just use whatever size you you think is heavy enough. I've build some on my hog cage out of 1/2 in pipe with a 90 on each end and a piece of one inch sleeved over.

Them busher dogs are supposedly more of the old strain of mt cur. They don't have any streak blood in them. Streak was more feist looking and hotter nosed that the old strains. That why they usually all darker in color and bigger like Reuben said. Also the colder nose better working on old cold coon feeder tracks. I like killin and eating squirrel so it don't matter the strain to me. As far as price of a good squirrel dog they are about like the hog dogs I reckon. As expensive or cheap as you want. Saw high power comp dogs go from 10-15 grand. I payed 600 for my old gyp but have turned down 3000. She just needed to be hunted to get right. She's not comp type dog but I can fill a bunch of black pots with squirrel gravy with her. My young red gyp in pic is comp speed dog she can make your tongue hang out if you in squirrel going tree to tree as fast as you unsnap her.

Who he came from Georgia?

Dang that's a good one

Looking good fellas. Those are good pictures. Walker that dog looks like shes treeing her butt off!

She's pretty intense tree dog. It's her breeding. Some of her siblings are same way or even more intense. She makes me wish I enjoyed the comp hunts but I just don't. Thanks for the comments.

I've got a few. I'm not into it as heavy in the competition hunting as I was a few years ago but still pleasure hunt when deer hunting ends. Everything takes a back seat when it's deer season especially all the dog hunting sports. This is a pic of my baby girl. She's nice squirrel dog. Got older and younger but she's the star.

I wish I was closer judge. Id come thin them down with my old redbone gyp or some of my trashy mt cur squirrel dogs. It never seems to fail that all the good spots are unavailable or 8 hours away huh.

If your truck dog box is small enough set it out on the ground with door open. It might go in there since his scent is in it and it's familiar to it. Even if it's only been in it a couple times. I've had this work before

I know a bunch of fellas with squirrel dogs that done it. Well worth it to go back on something that has passed on. But one guy I know also had a good stud dog that reproduce well also. He did not collect him because he said that kind of stuff was like living in the past. Why do that when there is always progression in the breed was his stance on the subject. So like everything else there is more than one way to look at it. One big breeder used it as a means of getting dogs bred all over the country with it also. Easy to ship straws with dry ice across country and let gyps owner go to his vet and have her bred by a.i.

That's awesome catch. I'd almost rather catch frogs than anything else.

Them jokers are fine

Ybm wasn't y'all messing around with some breeding with the intent of straight catch yellas? If so how's that project looking or is it still in top secret development stage?

From what I hear it's dying pretty fast here in La. The government finally snuffed out the boys in kisatchie national forest last couple years. One of the big paper companies have banned it on there north la properties also. It's about dead down south too. Everybody still hunts. The same paper company still allows it down here. Also the few hunting clubs in swamps still do it but they lost bunch of land to state wma about 10 or 15 years ago. I love it but it's dying faster than tree in the desert. I love hearing them long legged walkers pouring the coal to ones butt on a cold morning then hear the water splashing as they get closer.