The Plott Thickens.

Reuben, I don't think that you could go wrong with Mike Cauley's line of Plotts. I'm not saying every pup makes the grade,everybody has a cull sometimes,if they say every pup makes it they are lying to you. I ran hog bred Mt Curs for years, and caught a lot of hogs with them, but the real running hogs always seemed to get away. I'm not saying you will catch every runner every time, but with good bred Plotts, your odds of catching those runners will go up if they have been bred with what I call (bottom) the ability and drive to stick to a track untill you have run the air out of those sho nuff runners. Mike's Plotts are very gritty dogs, very seldom does he even use his catch dog. Just yesterday we caught a 250# Wooley Bugger with 4 Plotts. I know I sound like a salesman for Mike, but it is only because I am sold on them myself. And CSCOTT, good luck on finding that silent one, not that there aren't any out there, but they are few and far in between. I don't know of any man that has a line of them, but some breeders occasionaly have one. I really don't think it matters any way, whether a dog is open or not. It's just a mans personal preference. Personally I love to hear a good race. To me the only drawback to having Plotts is you can't turn out on 3 or 4 hundred acres, but with trying to catch these runners of today, they won't stay on it anyway. Good luck to everyone in our endeavors to catch hogs with what ever breed you choose. I just choose Plotts.