Post by vancreek on Sept 5, 2005 9:10:22 GMT -5
how did everyone do over the weekend,saturday,i had one going,got a late start,cold trailed for about an hour but the dog made a loss on the road,sunday got one jumped in about a half hour,turned the other two i had in the box loose,they made the race and things were good,treed breifly and tried to get some of my buddies dogs in and they didnt cut,two older dogs fell behind when it came out and a bawley breed dog i got and that 13 month old blue dog were chomping on his but as they came across the road,cut in all my buddies dogs and the race was sounding good,got around to the front and headed in ended up walking with the bay up till 1 pm,had the dogs who were behind catch up but he did not want to tree,i stayed up with the race but couldnt get the bear to climb,he just moved from one blowdown over top the dogs to the next,by noon some dogs started dropping out,they were pretty much only able to bark when the bear would bay up and when he would break not a peep till he was caught again,dogs were dropping out steady and i stayed with the lead till there were only 2 dogs left and i hit a trail to get out,i was going to keep going but 5 hours walking through the swamp was enough for me,i came out got picked up and started picking up dogs,exciting and the only thing that could have topped the day would have been to tree it,although if i had a fire stick it would have been a dead bear early on in the day,hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend and sucessful hunting,i was gonna try again today but decided to spend the day with my wife and kids instead,and give my worthless flea bags a little time to heal up before next weekend.take care and have a nice day. jerry