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Me and my buddy got what we thought was going to be an awesome coon spot but we can't put game in the tree we have looked at the area in the daylight and there is tracks every where, the dogs will run a race all night it seems if you let them and they do good at our other spots. We think there might be too many coon in that small of an area any one heard of this?

If there are litters of baby coon on the ground it can mess with dogs as far as having an over whelming amount of scent and not being able to line out on one particular coon. it can be hard on some dogs.

That is the only thing we can think of it sucks we have been hunting it for a few months now and can't get'em treed but we know they're their almost considering not hunting there any more

Ive seen this before, when there are that many tracks on the ground the hounds seem to just keep finding a never ending loop of scent and dont locate and tree. In my experience you need to get right down with the hounds and walk the track and start shinning the tree's as you go. You might be very suprised at what you will find.
If your dogs are more track orientated rather than to just tree the first tree that has scent on it the hounds will blow by treed coons and keep running the tracks just cuss they think the coon kept going. I would keep hunting that spot and walk in and shine the tree's and help the hounds locate the coons that they blew by.

Thanks for the advice we have been hunting with three dogs my young dog and my buddy has an older female and a nice young male that will sit down and false tree the older female won't (as bad) but there is never game in the tree and it is tough for me to even drop my dog in what do you guys think I should or continue to hold him back

What part of California are you hunting?

Kyleodus wrote:Thanks for the advice we have been hunting with three dogs my young dog and my buddy has an older female and a nice young male that will sit down and false tree the older female won't (as bad) but there is never game in the tree and it is tough for me to even drop my dog in what do you guys think I should or continue to hold him back

would hunt your dog by itself and not with false treers.

Hunting in central california near the merced river

that has happened to me before huntin along a little pond we had a couplle starters and a finished out hound and we sat there fer 20 er so minutes watching this finished out hound try to line out the track. i mean this dog was goin crazy trying to figure it out. it was whinin and just sniffin allover a 20 yard radius area. ya could tell it was red hot but after awhile we just called him off and kept walkin to see if he'd run into a goin track.

I also have a few spots to coon hunt along the merced river and in the last couple of weeks the same thing has happened to me, the races go on and on never ending at the tree. I hunted there on a Friday night and came up empty so Saturday I headed to the other side of the state and treed 6 in 4 hrs. Im not shure what the problem is down there but i will keep trying till i figure it out

The opposite problem here..Having a hard time locating them where we live. Good luck catching them.