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Post by buckert on Nov 14, 2016 21:57:33 GMT -5
Been a weird year for me and hunting partners. We hunt a river floodplain swamp in northern Indiana. I've only been hunting four years so maybe weird is normal. First year I hunted during gun, I lost count of surrounding shots on gun opener. Last year and this year were really slow. Only 7 shots opening morning. None of us saw deer this opening weekend. We were seeing a lot of does during bow, and a few small bucks. The swamp flooded the 1st week of November after a heavy rain and it's been pretty dead ever since. Any experienced river bottom hunters here? Think they moved out to higher ground?
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Post by swilk on Nov 14, 2016 22:07:10 GMT -5
In cold climates I'd think they'll go to higher ground usually. I hunt river bottoms ground but fall floods are not the norm.
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 14, 2016 22:14:56 GMT -5
My wife and her brother own a farm in SW Vanderburgh county, Its behind the levee and close to the Ohio river. I hunt the small patch of woods there during early archery before the crops are picked. This is not swampy ground but stays damp during the summer so mosquitoes are terrible. Once the crops are gone I hardly see a deer in the wood's. When the river comes up, usually Jan-march the woods has depending on the river level up to 15 feet of water.
The house is on a Indian mound so it only floods above 45 feet. Boated in there to check on the house and have seen up to 15 deer staying close to the house on high ground. I think in your case the does changed their patterns after the flood. What I've seen is they will get back in their normal routine after the water subsides. If the does come back the bucks will follow.
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Post by stevein on Nov 15, 2016 8:49:45 GMT -5
I used to hunt a creek bottom. When the water was up deer sightings went down. when it would go out of the banks zero sightings. I killed deer there though within a few days when it went back down.
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