If you buy the RIGHT yella dog you may, same as if you buy the right cat, or any other breed of dog. The person you deal with when getting a dog is a lot more important than the breed..
Exactly

It is like the old question...what came first the chicken or the egg??

You most definitely want to pick from a good hunting strain of dogs that produce.
But the breeder is just as important if not more so because he wouldn't maintain or improve the strain if he did not have the knack for breeding the right dogs and worse, if he/she do not have the concept as to what a great hunting dog should be. There are no shortcuts and no excuses for the dogs, we have to call it the way it is...that is if we truly want to improve the breed or strain...