Newly created pond located on my property.
Any suggestions. I have standing water way too excited!
New property / new pond
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Can you plant in that field or is it cropped? If not maybe along the edge?
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Newly created pond located on my property.
Any suggestions. I have standing water way too excited!
The time to ask for suggestions is usually before you put the water hole in... If it were me, I would of tried to keep it in the timber, and very close to primary buck bedding, with a hunting set up on an off wind.
If your just using the pond for taking inventory, that might be a great spot... And I guess that could be a good kill spot on some properties, but for the most part it is very difficult to get 5+ y/o bucks to walk out in the open for a drink in daylight.
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best that I could do with the logging process. Thought it would be good to put a water resource near the food plots and bedding area. Seems as though they would stage here, sip water and then go to feed. ??????
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robert richer wrote:best that I could do with the logging process. Thought it would be good to put a water resource near the food plots and bedding area. Seems as though they would stage here, sip water and then go to feed. ??????
I would treat it kind of like a food plot... Can you get between it and the bedding, closer to the bedding?
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This pond is upwind from bedding, between food plot and bedding.
I would be between pond and bedding...
I would be between pond and bedding...
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dan wrote: The time to ask for suggestions is usually before you put the water hole in... If it were me, I would of tried to keep it in the timber, and very close to primary buck bedding, with a hunting set up on an off wind...
That's what I had thought, but it could still be done after the logging is done, travel corridors/feeding areas are established and bedding gets straightened out.
That field would be great to put into CRP or at least use some switchgrass to try to create a travel corridor for bucks up to 3.5 or maybe 4.5 Depending on your hunting pressure.
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hat field would be great to put into CRP or at least use some switchgrass to try to create a travel corridor for bucks up to 3.5 or maybe 4.5 Depending on your hunting pressure.
I agree, some heavy tall grass around the pond might help the situation a little.
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Good ideas.
The surounding open area is now corn, should create some cover. Once the water level gets somewhat established I will plant winter wheat or some sort of tall grass.
Make sense?
The surounding open area is now corn, should create some cover. Once the water level gets somewhat established I will plant winter wheat or some sort of tall grass.
Make sense?
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If timber is close enough can you hinge cut a few trees on either side of where you want to have deer come into water...
Gives them a secure feeling and forces them into a funnel for your shooting chnaces...
(Even help clear a little path 1-foot wide and sprinkle with Doe urine along path to educate them of the where abouts)
Gives them a secure feeling and forces them into a funnel for your shooting chnaces...
(Even help clear a little path 1-foot wide and sprinkle with Doe urine along path to educate them of the where abouts)
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I can drag tree tops from ridge closer to the edge and place them parallel to skidder trail?
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You don't necessaryly need it right beside the pond. You could use this/create this as a staging area...
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