Solid dog work right there! I’m gonna own me a good yella dog one day!!! I got a counterfeit one now

I’ve never had much luck getting one to back up that didn’t want to.

Not to hi-jack this thread, but do y’all ever cast dogs solo or as a pair? A good hunting dog will go regardless, but a lot of times their range is cut down considerably. Maybe it’s the competition in em to outdo one another or relying on the other dog to do the work.

Sounds like some good cur dog work to me!

Them bulldogs have a rough life don’t they, but I bet if they could talk, they wouldn’t have it any other way!!

Good dog work, but less pics of the ugly mugs and more of the dogs 

There is no perfect dog, just what you’re willing to accept and live with. That’s a concession and not an excuse, and it took me a good while to learn the difference when it came to what was breed worthy in my opinion.

For example, I have a male dog that is as good as anything you wanna take to the woods. Pure cast dog, but can make him take a cold track like an old hound and has more bottom than most want to deal with, BUT he’s salty and I mean salty. He won’t let a hog run him much at all, and if he gets help, he’s prolly going to try the hog. Sometimes it busts a bay, and some times it takes a vet to put him back together. That’s a concession I’ll make. Ten years I wouldn’t have fed him, but a nice find dog is hard to find nowadays. So I’ve learned to hunt him to his strengths and go from there. Breeding wise, I plan on trying to breed him to a gyp inside his family and raise the ones that really wanna bay, and then cull the ones that don’t have the kinda hunt I want. It’s not guaranteed to work, but all you can do is try.

I’ve always been high on track dogs, but after raising a pile of dogs, I’d rather raise cast dogs. I can make a cast dog take a track with alil patience and it’s hard to find the motor in one nowadays, so if you got it go that route.  Now with plotts, I think any decent bred will be inclined to track hunt, but not many will cast deep.

My male dog and his sister was a natural cast dog from puppy stages. I knocked it on out of him by making him grind a track alil bit while on a lead rope and slow down. Now he’s alil bit of both.

The good ones are never here with us long enough! Hope you got some coming to fill his shoes!

Congratulations Clue!

I agree 100%. I want it all in a dog but one think I won’t do is beg one to do its job. I suck at training dogs so it better come natural or they don’t eat my feed.  Once you own a good one to set the standard, you won’t feed much else. 

How was their track speed? Did they lead a race, stay up with other dogs, did they make a lot of loses, or when you picked em up they were spent or still going strong.

I’ve seen a pile of cur dogs that wouldn’t run one over 45 mins. And people are happy to feed em.

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

  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!

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!

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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What’re they off Mike? Can’t beat that for young dogs starting, sure makes it easier to feed em!

You ever traveled and hunted any in like the big thicket part of texas? Just curious how they did in that country, I know they work there cuz people use em there still today!

You making me wanna raise a few of them yellow dogs for hogs around here. I just like watching a good cur dog work!

How’s the high percentage weatherford dogs do on hogs for you? I see you made a cross on clues blood and wondering what you expect outta that cross?

It’s always the second day after a real hard hard rain that seems to get the big hogs on their feet or at least making tracks where I can see em and put dogs on em.

Anybody ever put much thought on a big Barr hogs pattern. He fill up and lay up for a day or two days or what? They don’t move around much it’s hard for a dog to locate em even if they get close to em.