if the damn snow would ever melt! This has got to be my worst year ever for spending time in the woods, in the winter. I tried shed hunting each of the last 2 weekends and it was bad. Anyway, it sure is looking good for the water hole to fill up. I keep a camera on it from about now until it freezes up in December. I get pics of a lot of different animals at this spot. You can see my stand behind the pond. I shot a small buck from it this season. It's a fun place to sit.
I wish my pond was smaller. It is tough to figure out where they will come to drink from and it is too big to shoot all the way across. A trail cam over the pond would be no good. Added in, that our clay tends to have standing water in the low spots unless it goes without rain for a while and they can get water from other places. I would like to improve how deer use the pond to become more predictable this year if the f-ing snow would ever melt. Yours looks really good Greg!
BRad just a few hinged or strategically placed tree tops can go a LONG way in making them more predictable. You don't want to pinch them to just one entrance but giving them three easiest or two easy access/exit points can greatly increase you hunting chances around water of your size. I've even had one guy that used that orange snow fencing around part of his pond. Ugly, un-natural but worked.
I have thousands of trail cam pics from this site, or, did you mean from before I fixed it up? Check out this one. Note the bent, bloody arrow sticking up just to the left of the ripple in the water.
