I went and visited with a guy from South LA this past summer (Mike Cauley, Bayou Cajun). He and his buddy consistently catch hogs. The hogs in the areas they hunt are heavy on the Russian side. He has some great Plott hog dogs as indicated by the stacks of photo albums full of hog pics. They are hunters and don't breed a bunch to sell, but they will occasionally have pups available. His adult dogs looked good and from the scars its pretty obvious they have the grit. Some so gritty they are 1-out dogs. I don't have any of his stuff yet, but its just a matter of time.
I have some of Mike's Bayou Cajun stuff via Trey Love, his hunting partner. Those two catch some big bad Russians all the time. I have a bitch with Bayou Cajun top and bottom. And a big male with Bayou Cajun in him. Mike used to live across the street from me before I moved to Alaska the second time,about 15 years ago. Back then he was traveling all over the US to find the best big game plotts. He brought back blood from Joe Husdson's Timex dog and others, such as (maybe)Crockett, but has bred out the Crockett like catch stuff, does not want the vet bills anymore. Mike posted on the Parker Cur site that what he has now is Shamrock, Weems and Swampland melded into his Bayou Cajun lines. He also lays high praise on other plott lines. Mike is my age, mid-fifties, and always could and still can run off and leave me in the woods. Trey and Mike have both sold their stock to Norway and Yugoslavia hunters. Here is a pic of Mike's stuff and what him and Trey do nearly every weekend:
I also have a black female that keeps my chin greasy from all the pork she finds from the Beaucoup lines. Turning into a top dog. Semi-open and runs silent a lot. She has some Alabama Hammer and Sizzlin Heat in her. She is nearly the same stuff Jim Crainer had at one time and used in his cur-crosses. In the photo she is with her litter sisters, both "blue" plotts. Her mother and grandfather (Orval Robert's Jeb) were blue plotts from the Beaucoup lines. She and here sisters are much faster running dogs, as they are 35-40 pounders, than the Bayou Cajun lines, and they are much less grittier. My big male from Bayou Cajun will go toe-to-toe and get knocked down by a hog, then get right back up and go again. The Beaucoup females I have are not anything like him. I don't breed plotts, so go see Orval Roberts in Kelley, LA or Mike Cauley or Trey Love in Folsom, LA as they occasionally have spare pups, but rarely.
The last thing below is a video of the blue plott pups and their sisters at 11 weeks age with the first hog they have seen.
