i been having trouble treeing coon on a foggy night, had trouble as long as i can reminber for years, with old dogs and young dogs too, make every few trees if every, dogs act like they can't smell a track, had some nice hound that i know could run a bad track look like crap on a foggy night, what cause this, any boby else have this problem in the fog

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I remember a few nights that started out crystal clear and then the fog settled in. It's an eerie feeling when you can't see more than 15ft and no landmarks or directional bearings. I usually try to leash up the dogs and head home when it gets that foggy. Haven't had any real foggy nights in the last few years I remember so don't have much input on dogs or coons running.

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well it is a strange thing when you know your dog is a good one and you have a hard time treeing a coon here in wv i cant find anybody that has a good dog at all at least in the sourthen part of the state i wish some one would show me a good coon dog i have tried at least 10 dogs and none of them was worth the lead it took to kill them i have seen tree crazy dogs and some that wont even tree if any body out their has a good one i would like to hunt with it send me a pm

l hunted saturday in fog that was thick , we made 7 trees see 6 coon, hunted next night went out earlie right at dark like night before and nice and clear just got den trees and no tracks , l think they are starting to move late , or the yotes are starting to afeck them ,because seems no matter where we go there are yotes!

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It got really foggy here Friday night. Put one in a brush pile early, then treed a nice big boar. Left the house at 6:30 and was home by 8:30. The garmin sure made it easy hunting in the fog. I couldn't see half way up the tree by the time we were done.

I was also thinking the trapping doesn't slow down due to foggy nights, so must be your dogs don't like it or something because the coons are still running. Typically foggy nights would mean warmer weather wouldn't they? Maybe that has something to do with it.

havn't ever hunted fog but i would think it would help scenting abilities with all the moisture in the air... i'll hunt it the next chance i get and tell u my results

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right on, its great trailing conditions just hard to check the tree if to thick.

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I used to have a walker female who would rig on those foggy nights and that made it a lot easier lol.

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we hunted last night and it got to be so foggy we could barely make out the top of the last tree but we had a good turn out we got a triple on the first turn out and then a big oak den on the second but all in all it was a good night

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I've been at this game for over 40 yrs and some of the best hunting I've ever had was on foggy nights..I think the reason for this is the tracking conditions are real good on foggy nights...Just this old coonhunters opinion....

not an opinion, that a fact.

i dont hunt foggy nights anymore cuz i lost a dog on the road

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Good Morning Everyone,

Its been super foggy here lately (as of now we are at level 2 Fog), and i was kinda leaning towards not running my dogs tonight casue the fog. And i just wanted to ask do you guys still run hounds in the fog? Last night i was driving home and i couldnt see past my hood on my pick up. I was just worried about losing a dog. I dont have a GPS system for them yet i do however have an LED light i clip to their collar but with the fog as thick as its been getting esp at night i dont think they will be of much help. What are your thoughts of runnin dogs in dense fog. Have a great day all.

~Duck

ask yourself the ? is it really worth it?especially with no tracking system