Good ol traveling toms

[Unreal_tk]

We've had a snow storm for the last two days, yesterday I told my buddy that the cats were gona move, boy was I right. I turned out on a great track this morning and he travelled so far my poor mutts tired out on me in a bad lose. I was on a ridge over the canyon my dogs was in, listening to the music with a fresh bobcat track 50 yds from my sled ironicly... I had to hurry off the mountain and go the long way to pick up my Ruby dog, when she quits or I call em she hits a road and she takes it and wont leave! When I got service I called my buddy who was in the same boat but unfortunately was on the edge of wilderness when he started the cat. He had to walk into a deep ol hole to get his tired dogs in deep powder snow without his snowshoes. So lesson is cut tracks as fresh as possible on days like these!

[WAcoyotehunter]

I had a similar story a couple weeks ago- i turned loose on a pair of bobcats and was already counting my money.... They absolutely smoked me. One of the dogs did almost 20 miles and I wore myself out on the snowshoes at around 7 miles. I stopped and built a fire and waited for the dogs to figure out that this cat was not going to tree- they just couldn't move through the deep snow like he could.

[BELLIS3]

yeah bobs move quick, alot of zig zagging and they seem to move even quicker in snow

[dwalton]

I think just the opposite, the cats will not move far and are far easier to catch in a deep soft snow. In those conditions I will put on most any track expecting to catch it soon. Dewey

[George Streepy]

I'm with Dewey on this one. If the dogs could move the track they caught the cat for the most part. The deep fresh snow made it a lot easier.

Two week old frozen snow in 0 degree weather is a different story. I hate putting the dogs through that.

[mondomuttruner]

A couple weeks ago I let go on a track, I figured about a 25# female, small toes. Well, they cold tracked through 5 different holes I figured the cat would be laying in but went right through all of them. They were in some tags about a 40 from the road angling toward me, barking pretty decent but not jumped. All at once they popped out on the road and I figured wtf, no track on the other side but the side they came out on was dry ground, sun melted out the snow. I walked in and sure enough they had the track. The cat walked the road for about 1/2 mile and found where it went south. Released the hounds again and they got in there a little over a 40 and jumped, the cat circled around and came back for the road and started to run some figure 8's when I fed another dog to them. Turned out, that dog I fed in must have run into the cat right in front of the other hounds and treed. Wasn't a pretty catch, they didn't locate for while because that other feed in dog ran into the main pack and buggered it up for a spell. On the garmin, the cold track was 7.8 miles which took them a couple hours and the jump lasted about 20 min. The cat is still there to run another day...