July 12, 2003

The river

Met Paul on the river. Sent Nitro and Josie east from the far edge of the middle field. They struck about halfway down. Nitro must have been winding a coon on the other side of the river. He was swimming across so we called him in.

Put Nitro on a "hot" track and sent Josie in behind. Nitro located and treed, Josie milled a little then treed with him. Good for her to see a strange dog and fight a coon with him.

Corn is still not ripe anywhere I've hunted. For now, I'll just hunt there with my old dog Mabel. Until I start treeing coons right in the corn, it's too risky to hunt a young dog there. Once the coons are in the corn, I think Josie will be one of my best sweet corn dogs. Won't be long now.

Posted by bruceo at July 12, 2003 12:51 AM