Dan Edwards wrote:I hope some day I can come hunt with yall down there and run them cats but................"Mr. Dan's Yote hunters", you are gonna have to quite puttin me in that category with all them other fellas. HAHAHAHA! I dont even have a cb or radio in my truck if that means anything to ya. Wouldnt matter if I did, there aint nobody to call. HAHA!
"Coyote hunters" dont like the way I do it.
Now thats funny, you should try runnin yotes out where I live. Other houndsman see me comin, and they cover their childrens eyes and drive away as fast as they can LOL.
I do have a Garmin hangin from my saddle horn LOL.
U guys can make fun of Dan & his yote hounds, But if dogs will run down a yote & streach him, that is not all bad. Coyote hunting with trail hounds is fun, I should know I hunted day & night for 40 years. An all night chase with dogs almost biting his tail every jump is the very best in trail hound hunting. Dan keep up the good work.
Current, deceased, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, Texas, West Coast, Dryground! Would be awful hard to campare Apples to Grapes and this would be the same thing!
Conditions and Country hunted sure would make it tuff............but be good to see who shows up on peoples list!
I will go ahead and stick my neck out with my limited experience. East Texas and the piney woods Mr. Finney Clay and yourself Mr. C.John South Texas Mr. Joe Rufus Lyne and Luther Snow That is as for as my limited knowledge will take me. As for as east Texas I must add Buster Moore, my mentor.
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Just in the south. Take it from Texas all the way across to Florida and just give your list of 5 great ones. They dont have to be the best in the whole wide world, just great cat hunters with damn good dogs. Nobody should get all whiney assed about it if they dont make the list. And if they do, fuggem feed em fish heads.
I would love to get down there and run with that pack of cat dogs. I read that book, "the Big Thicket Legacy" and I was hooked on the idea of running with a good pack of cat dogs some day.
this is just based on some of the bobcat hunters that i have personally hunted with and believed had most of the bobcat hunting stuff figured out. and most all of them were great bear hunters too back in the glory days of washington and oregon. i'd say in no particular order that maybe i've hunted with the first ones more than the last ones Hubert Dotson, George Justus, Glen Dotson was a great houndsman that i have personally hunted with, Ron Culver who died a few years back and had great bobcat and lion dogs even if he had to pay a big price for it. Sam Dotson has had bobcat hunting figured out for quite some time and that sold some pretty good dogs around the northwest a lot of them to ron culver and may not have had the greatest dealings with some people but that is not for me to judge. i know he always kept a pretty good cat dog no matter what. and the last one would probably be Kenny Jones son of Ray Jones all of these other guys were more treeing walker men Kenny, has a strand of old plotts out of the same blood that he and his dad bear hunted with. these are the handful of men that have mentored me and kept me thinking time and time again and some of them are all i've ever wanted to be in a houndsman. these guys were never afraid to take anybody with them you could turn your dogs in no matter what happened. they would try to look at the bright side and they knew that they had good dogs. if you have good dogs you dont need to make excuses. and thats just the way they were most of the time. come on boys from the northwest lets hear more about some of these men, they are great houndsmen. im gonna do a little name dropping here because i have never hunted with these guys but i've heard a lot about them and their dogs. guys like jerry hatton, tommy barnes, butch nelson whom i've met at his place a few times, that man is serious and there are probably some real good stories about him. this is what i've got from the northwest and i know these men dont walk on water but they damn sure knew what it took to successfully catch game with a pack of dogs mostly the bobcats. i dont always run around bragging on other people and their dogs but these guys hunt a lot like i hunt because i learned from some of them their ways and they get in the woods and hunt day in day out daylight till dark
I think here in Texas, do not know in order but Robby Hurt catches a crap load of cats and hunts hard as any body and makes good money during deer season an tracking wounded deer. I have talked to him personally about running his cat dogs on deer and he says he will go through many dogs to run a blood trail on a deer. He told me that his dogs can trail a deer that is wounded right through a whole herd of deer and stay on the wounded deer. I can not see it being that easy but Robby is a hell of a staight guy. Then he can turn around and not run one deer and catch a bobcat. Stephen ball also in South Texas catches a cat almost ever night, He will send me pics from over a weekend with 1 cat fri. night and 2 sat. night and so on. He takes some damn good pics. He hunts alot with Wayne Ellisor that has some really good cat dogs. I have got some dogs off of Bill Francher Which had some dogs that could catch alot of cats. I have asked him how many he has caught in one night one time and he said one night he caught 5 grown cats all in different trees, different races. That is what I know about the cat hunters around here.
In the "Big Thicket Legacy" Mr. Floyd Warren is mentioned, he was the best "least known Cat Hunter probably ever. Raised his own Hounds, never hardly sold one( no matter how tight money might be, if he liked you and thought you would hunt him he would give you the same Hound he had turned down $1000.00 for).
But Mr. Floyd was like so many great Cat hunter across the country, he never hunted ove 35 miles from home so no one knows of him or them! This is the case in almost every state where Cat Hunters are found. A Hunter is Famous is his area but unknown 60 miles away!
It is this way today in Texas, Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Mississippi, Maine, almost any state you have hard hunters who catch plenty of game but are not known, they are almost as secretive as their quarry!
To me the greats are the ones who have trained and bred their Hounds. Their are several keeping the traditions and sport alive in all parts of the country, here is an incomplete list of those in the South and Southeast: In GA there is the Jessup GA group including Mr. Glen Mullis, Charles Tyre, and Charles Smith. In NC there is Glen Willoboughy and Mr. Ralph Mc Clean Sr. In Mississippi there is Harold Parker In Arkansas Glen Rybard In TX Robbie Hurt, Wayne Ellisor, Danny Brammen, Hoot Gibson to name a few. In Oklahoma there is Hootie Shaw, Ken Duke, Bruce Lawson, & Marion Graham In Louisiana there is Bobby Bradford, and Jim Moore
I know that I am leaving some names out, some because while they are good Cat hunters, but they buy Hounds rather than raising and training their own; some I just don't know, and some I have merely over looked though not intensionaly!
Thanks Guys for all the post and keep them coming. But on the subject of the dogs. It was said that good cat dogs are hard to get your hands on and thats very true because people that have them wont get rid of them and i think its even harder to get your hands on a puppy because they don't part with there bloodline. Which makes it hard these days because good hounds are few and far between and good blood lines are even harder, because field trials and all the hound sports have breed the nose out of the dogs and in my opion the brains have been breed out. Most people that have the good blood lines you dont't hear of because they hunt alone most of the time and close to home and usually breed only to add to there own pack not for others. JMO Thanks everyone Randy
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