How did you decide on the dogs you hunt

I started with cur dogs, Catahoulas that were used on free ranging cows and hogs. Didnt know how lucky I was to fall in with a couple of those guys. Sal Smith gave me a 8 month old leopard male and he was a natural. A lot of times we would have to listen for a hog to squeal to know where he was.. Got some tracking collars in the early 80's and then I could keep up with him. Had all day bottom. Crossed him on a Robert L. Hobgood gyp that was Mason bred and got some pretty good pups. I had started hunting bear and had gotten into Plotts. Around 2000 my last good Catahoula just could not reproduce himself and to be fair to him, we never bred him to anything in his caliber. So I just stuck with the Plotts mostly because they were as hardheaded as I was. The first couple of years I was trying Plotts I just could not find anything that suited me and I thought they were the sorriest breed going. Finally got a dog from Joe Hudson and that set the bar. Went thru several Weems bred dogs and they were pretty sorry and that is when Weems meant something. Finally found another Weems bred gyp and she was everything a Plott was supposed to be. I mixed some Swampland Plotts in and that is what I have been breeding for almost 40 years.