Running hogs??

Like everybody else, we have places where the hogs are bad to run. Have this place where they are dogged alot & they are all good russian hogs.
Was telling a buddy about it & he said if he got his plotts on it, he could run them down so I invited him over. That whole weekend we ran hogs from sunup to sundown & never caught one. Now I have caught a lot of hogs in there with my plotts but I generally have to relay them to break that hog down.
That same area, I caught 32 hogs in that winter with one male catahoula. Here are some of my observations over the years on running hogs. That dog was as rough as he had to be to keep a hog there. If he stopped, he backed off & bayed, but as long as the hog was trying to run he was hung on to the back end.
In a place where hogs are bad to run, it seems like just one dog out, & they bay better where two or more & the hog is off & running. Does not matter if a dog is open or not. JMO
Some dogs, whether open or silent, just have the touch that keeps hogs bayed. It does not matter if they are loose baying or gritty, they have what it takes.

The last few years, my plotts have caught about 80% of the hogs they run across & like Texashogdog says, I use a lot of staples. Two of the very best plotts I have had, that were great on baying hogs by theirself, one was very gritty & one was not. Go figger, so both types bay hogs.
Bottom line, there are going to be hogs that will smoke you & not a thing you can co about it.lol