3 Reasons Not To Install Waterholes On Food Plots
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- This is a common and costly deer habitat mistake! Make sure that you avoid installing your waterholes in this location, because it can drastically lower your hunting season's potential....
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Heading to my property this weekend after having been unable to go since last September due to taking care of my parents and the passing of my dad. Looking forward to getting back out there, cleaning out the water holes, and hoping to find some sign left over from that last few months. I've missed the woods.
Great info..I agree with the philosophy you present, and yes understanding how to engage natural daily movements along the "water-feed-bed-loop" is key
That you...very key! We even see...over and over again, that you diminish the use of waterholes significantly when you add them to waterholes...
Good info on your water pond strategies. Some really nice bucks also! I have placed ponds both on plot edges and in the woods, for differing reasons. But I sure can't argue with your strategy. Thanks
High hopes for my new water hole, only about 10 yards from a hunting plot separated by some hinge cut willows and elms, mock scrape on the trail at the edge. Can't wait.
I just listened to that buck bedding study. Your reply/ comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks for mentioning Virginia! I'm in the mountains of South West Virginia and dying to relocate my TSC tubs but can't now because of CWD regs. I found a few tree stump water sources a was amazed at the deer usage. My beagle actually found and showed me the stump water hole. Hoping to start training her on sheds and morels.
My lease has a 25 acre lake and multiple creeks feeding the lake, plus there's natural water holes throughout the woods. Im currently fighting beavers that have recently started flooding the woods by damming up the creeks.
Great info Jeff. Controlling line of movement and the bucks time is the way to be successful year after year!
Amen to that Karl! Its fun too 😁
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 One of the most important parts the fun!!
I've got a spot I just can't decide if it's the right situation for a waterhole on a plot or not. My green plot is at the bottom of a point where the water hole would be. From there they can go left or right through lined switchgrass to the bigger later season plots like corn and brassicas. Access is superb 75 yards off the road coming in below the green plot. It's also a natural road crossing spot during the rut too! Waterhole on top of the ridge of course too coming in from the backside for the morning hunts.
Speaking of waterholes, I have a natural one next to the cattails. Happy for any wetland advice. We have a lot of edge opportunities 👍
Hi Kurt, is it in their travel? Those can be pretty cool!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 like a highway on both sides of the cattails. Bedding and woody browse patches on perimeter.(Dogwood and birch patches)
Hey jeff, i hunt 60 wooded acres in central Wisconsin. There is alot of fields around us but nothing directly touching it. The front half is hardwoods the back half is bedding and marsh with tags and a few hardwood islands in it. There is also aboiut a 100 yard wide section of tags and bedding that separates the front hardwoods so it almost acts as a corridor to the back bedding. I have a quarter acre food plot in the hardwoods and was thinking about adding another on one of those islands in the back. I do pretty well on my property and im averaging about every other year shooting the biggest buck around the area. Which there aren't that many usually 1 or 2 in the 140s or a little bigger in the area every year. Every now and then theyll be a slammer however. In the summer i very rarely get buck pics. I do get a lot of does. I usually do get the bigger bucks to randomly go through once or twice in the summer. But come mid october the bucks seem to move in and stay. I guess my question is do i leave well enough alone or should i be doing more. I feel like i should be doing something but then its like am i risking doing more harm then good.
Thanks, for everything you give to make myself a better hunter Sr. Happy hunting 😊❤ one more thing I wish there was a way to show you the Big Right Pointer I harvested last year lol sorry I don't put punctuations😊😊😊
Thanks a lot Adam! I really enjoy it and try to do the best I can
Great video and advice. Thanks!
Thanks a lot Clay!
Having a creek run the entity of my property beside the food plot all the way to several stand locations that are up. Is it worth putting water on a hill 20 in elevation???
I really have no choice but to install a water hole adjacent to my food plot.that is where i have a raised water spicket.i can not drive in or out to my forest,it is a sanctuary.but the deer use the yard adjacent to the house and food plot .been thinking about getting a tank of some kind or low to the ground stout plastic "pool".have a seasonal brook/ ditch we cant count on in late season....hands are tied basically.....although you got me thinking ,there is 1 exit from the forest into the yard the deer use at times to get to the plot.100/150 yards away.i could place one there.its a well used pathway.hmmm.
What if I have a swamp and a pond on 17 acres would you still use a watering hole
Thanks for all this knowledge.
You are very welcome Ron!
Great video! I am definitely guilty of this...
How come when I had Dylan out last spring to design my property he put 2 water holes both on food plots? Just curious
It depends on the plots and land...especially size of plots. But that's a question for Dylan 😉 generally not a good idea if it can be helped. You can never say never tho...
Could u make a water hole just by digging a hole in the ground and laying a tarp over it
You can..but they generally leak quickly, the tarp peels up, and it looks trashy. You also increase the risk for EHD...any dug waterhole for that matter. Not something you can depend on. Something we've learned from our own past mistakes as well as the mistakes of many clients ov r 2 decades.
What if you have a small waterhole on your very enclosed kill plot?
Hi Jordan, that can work...I talk about that at the end of the video. It's very rare tho that I would want them together but at times, due to a lack of space it makes sense. However if you can ever separate them, you often get another stand for different winds, and the water becomes an all day stand instead of primarily an afternoon stand if included on the food plot
Doesn't a pond do the same thing as far as ehd ?
The only reason I shot my 164-inch 7.5yr old ten last year here in Wisconsin is because of the water hole I placed in my plot at bow range. He sat on the edge of the plot for 45 minutes, feeding out of bow range, but finally made a beeline for my water hole!
Imagine if you would have had it back 50 yards....you wouldn't have had to wait for him to risk it to come into the plot 😉 And shot him an hour sooner. Him sitting there for 45 minutes tells you all you need to know....
Keep in mind you shot him despite the location, not because of it.
Hmm.. I remember draining that thing…
Ha, so true Brian...thought the skid steer was going to get pushed away!
I wish the deer in my area only moved 2-300 yards from bed to feed. Would make hunting a little easier. Closer to 3/4 mile easily of travel.
That's a long ways Craig! Kind of like my UP of MI days...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 sure is. But nothing like what I’ve seen in northern maine. After tracking bucks last thanksgiving week in snow and seeing the miles they roam it makes back home in Massachusetts feel like a high fence hunt
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Hope it helps Connor!