Late season, snow and cold, how to hunt?

[mag1]

It's been quiet awhile since I have hunted a late season hunt when the temps are Going to be in the mid teens, but it is still snowing and supposed To till tomorrow morning. I plan on going out mid day. Would you typically still set up near the bedding, or maybe still hunt? This area has some thick tags in the marsh, a little high ground, all the crops have been picked and fields have been plowed. This is the first snow of the year, we have 5"+, maybe 8-12 when it is all done. I'm not sure if the deer will be moving yet, so what do u guys typically see? I also thought of looking for hot sign when I go in as well. Any thoughts?

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[matt1336]

Personally I'd find some fields that aren't plowed under. If you can find some winter wheat or maybe alpha. Then it's as simple as finding the tracks that come outa bedding.

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[justin84]

What if corn was cut back in November? Might they still come check for scraps or not likely?

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[tgreeno]

Mag1,
I'll be out tomorrow too. With the fresh snow. I'm scouting my way in, and setting up on the fresh sign coming out of marsh bedding!

Or I have another option...Going in blind to a standing corn field?

[mag1]

Tgreeno, if I remember correctly, r u in the Appleton area? ..... anyways, the snow has stopped, about 6" or so. I'm hopping the wet stuff froze enough, I have a plan, I just need to see if there are any tracks in the area now. This is primarily flat land, high ground is only a few feet higher than the marsh. Get of work aroundd, 11, should be in the woods close to noon.

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[tgreeno]

Tgreeno, if I remember correctly, r u in the Appleton area? ..... anyways, the snow has stopped, about 6" or so. I'm hopping the wet stuff froze enough, I have a plan, I just need to see if there are any tracks in the area now. This is primarily flat land, high ground is only a few feet higher than the marsh. Get of work aroundd, 11, should be in the woods close to noon.

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Mag1, I'm in Fond du Lac area. We got about 4" here. I prolly heading out shortly after noon. Gonna scope out the standing corn first, if the sign is good I'll hunt it. Otherwise I'm heading to a marsh bedding area looking for fresh sign. Both are basically blind hunts. Only cyber scouted. Then my next chance will be Wed or Thurs.

[tgreeno]

4 doe's for me. A good start to my "late season"!

[mag1]

Seen one doe tonight, just not close enough. Tgreeno, I work down in fdl, I'm supposed to "bleed black". If u live in FDL, you'll know what that means. :)

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[tgreeno]

Seen one doe tonight, just not close enough. Tgreeno, I work down in fdl, I'm supposed to "bleed black". If u live in FDL, you'll know what that means. :)

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Mag1, I worked there for 15 years.

[MOBIGBUCKS]

Still comes down to bedding for me and then food. In farmland like I hunt, I'm still seeing bucks travel quite a distance from preferred bedding to food. Right now they are traveling and hitting the cut cornfields but they aren't getting there until well after dark...

[Hunter74]

Have any of you guy's noticed if it seems a lot of deer have moved out of the swamps and marsh with it freezing or are they still holding deer?

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[Dewey]

Have any of you guy's noticed if it seems a lot of deer have moved out of the swamps and marsh with it freezing or are they still holding deer?

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Past experiences have shown that large marshes and swamps will hold even more deer after they freeze up but bedding will be much deeper. Most have already been pushed there from excessive pressure the last month and will remain there till late winter. I have tracked deer late season that traveled 2 miles from bedding to food sources and back again daily.

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[JoeRE]

With fresh snow let the fresh sign tell you what areas to concentrate on. The sign will tell you which fields have waste grain the deer are pawing up. I do a lot of glassing from the road and scouting around food sources with weapon in hand. Then I just head toward what bedding those tracks are coming from.

I use trail cameras some late season if I find a mega-food source but not a lot because I want to see something and move in right away not wait for a camera check.

Good bucks are few and far between, holed up in spots that have proven to keep them alive until now, so I try and cover a ton of ground.

Just remember when you are freezing your but off out there late season with snow and cold is a whole lot easier than late season hunting with warm temps!

[Hunter74]

Have any of you guy's noticed if it seems a lot of deer have moved out of the swamps and marsh with it freezing or are they still holding deer?

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Past experiences have shown that large marshes and swamps will hold even more deer after they freeze up but bedding will be much deeper. Most have already been pushed there from excessive pressure the last month and will remain there till late winter. I have tracked deer late season that traveled 2 miles from bedding to food sources and back again daily.

Thanks for your response. I've seen a couple times where the marsh started to freeze to where there was ice but not thick enough to hold you and the deer pretty much abandoned it. However these times where before gun season and idk if they moved back in after. I do know last year had great hunting on one of these marshes in the late season so I assume pressure does push more deer onto that marsh.

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