Should You Add A Deer Waterhole Where You Hunt?
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- čas přidán 3. 04. 2020
- Adding water for deer can be as simple as buying a 100 gallon water tank from the local TSC and grabbing a shovel. However, should you even add a waterhole to your deer hunting parcel? Even if you already have water on your land, adding water can be an outstanding option! This video discusses if you should add water on your land, what kind of water deer prefer and why you can make your waterhole a sure fire hotspot for thirsty whitetails this hunting season. It may be time to add water for the local deer herd, right now!
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Great advise, Thanks
Great videos and superb knowledge, not a lot of love though for us below the Mason Dixon line. I’ve tried multiple times to reach out to Dylan and Jeff to no avail. I know… I’m busy and have multiple clients.. I offered to pay rates and then some. Still no contact. I’ll keep watching and make my own approach to apply their knowledge down south but sad they only respond to.. well I don’t know who they respond to. But they must be doing well not to need average Joe that loves white tail hunting and to show common courtesy. Keep up the good videos guys. Thanks for that I guess
We appreciate it JB! Unless on a comment, neither of us can respond to contacts unless through existing clients, friends, etc. Both of us only work by the day...same with Wes, Joe and Kevin. All contacts go thru Jessi, thru our website at info@whitetailhabitatsilutions.com.
I hope that helps...we get dozens of requests per week at times, to help folks out, so we respond with as much free content as possible. But outside of that we have to follow a very strict protocol to maintain the business and schedule clients efficiently.
Thank you for going back over watering holes. You answered a few questions I had. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Ahhhhh, Saturday morning video time. Thanks again Jeff.
For sure Mike...hope you enjoyed it ☺️
This answers a question I had perfectly. Thank you
That's great to hear Kevin...wanted to hit some of these common questions that I get about waterholes! You are very welcome 👍
Great video Jeff... I'm going add a water hole this year for sure!. Thanks for all your help.
Give us some ideas what to do with a piece of oak timber with not much habitat adversity a terrible piece of deer habitat
Thanks for touching on the EHD. That was my concern with using tanks.
Oh for sure Bill...lots of folks have that concern! Hope it makes sense 👍
answers my question to lol.
That's good Alex...hope that it all helps!
Thanks , I’ve learned a lot from your videos.
You are welcome Charley! Love hearing that
Excellent. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to installing our first water holes in May. :-)
Thanks Chad and enjoy ☺️ Very rewarding project!
Great content Jeff, at one time years back i observed a buck eating the Green algae that had covered a pond,water i would never think about drinking YUCKK!!
I have a 40 with a swamp on one end..........when I had a water hole on higher ground on the opposite side of the property they hit it religiously. When I took it out to relocate it, they continued going to the same spot looking. Installing 2 this spring.
I think the noise makes them nervous also.I have small creeks .A big creek before they get too food.And a big stinky pond.They can take their pick.But I do see most activities around the pond.
Thanks Jeff. Any plans to release a whiteboard video of how elevation changes impact where you establish foodplots/bedding areas on a new property? I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on that!
A theory I had about prey species not likely to drink from streams is they have to put their head down right next to the noisy water where they can’t hear. Just a thought
More good content Jeff, as a first time waterhole user last fall it works!! Actually got to watch two does try to keep a red fox away from my water tank on one hunt last fall, that was fun to watch. another factor of a running creek is the noise. Deer cant hear approaching predators over the noise of the running water. Wherabouts in Mn. is your potential property? Winona county? Sure would love to have a beer with ya!
That's an awesome experience!
Winona or Houston for sure...really not sure on what to do with everything going on right now.
So we had several bucks on a public tract here in smoking hot Texas coming to a small tank on camera. They were semi-regular up until about sept 25, just days before opening day of archery. Why do they change their habits in that last week of September so often? It’s too hot for guys to be out pre scouting especially in this spot. Any theories on why they are changing habits in that window every year?
Awesome observation! I started writing about the annual whitetail shift about 12 years ago...one of my original concepts. This is most typically true of bucks, as the habitat they require during the Summer is not the habitat that they require during the Fall. Here is one of my articles but if you Google or CZcams search, "annual whitetail shift", my content will come up at the top. Bucks shift on average about a mile to 1.5 miles. Often hunters think they go nocturnal when really they just move. Hope this helps!
www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com/blog/the-shift-of-summer-to-fall-whitetail-habitat
Whitetail Habitat Solutions Thanks a bunch Jeff! Wish you could just be on our podcast bi-weekly lol
Put in my first waterhole at a small hilltop woodlot last week. Installing a vine licking branch next. Is there an optimum distance to place the mock scrape from the waterhole? Thanks for all the great info Jeff.
The running creek has alot of noise which would impair them from hearing predators approach .
Definately! Several reasons they don't like to use them as much as a quiet, stagnant, warm water shallow pond or tank.
Same reason I don't hunt near them. You can't hear anything coming.
I know this is off topic, but would it be late to plant switchgrass now? Even if I have the ability to spray and disc?
You mentioned dry bedding, on my property deer often bed in the swamps. Do you think a waterhole on the way to food would be beneficial?
Kevin. How are you filling these tanks on flat areas? Some of the pictures I see of the tanks I dont see how much water can run into them?
I have a 5 acre parcel of woods and 10 acres of sporadic trees in a open area all I have is does and I don’t see any bucks it’s right-along a creek what do you think i should do?
Do you have any videos on how to choose a property if purchasing?
I sure do...here is one of them! Really hope that it helps...
czcams.com/video/yIFaCTACP6I/video.html
Jeff,
How do you get the water to these remote holes? Obviously rain helps to an extent, but the initial fill up needs to be done. Thanks
Ever try not burying the water tank, leaving it above ground? If you have a way to fill it.
That's what we first did years ago...bad idea, deer avoid them that way except for in the lower hunting pressure states. Check out my waterhole playlist library...I talk about that a lot. Most states a bad idea not to bury it most of the way...
I'm guessing I would have to bring tanks of water to keep these full? Or put them on a slope so the rain (if any) would fill it? By the way thanks for all your videos!
My WHS plan was to put two 150 gallon stock tanks in but am having second thoughts due to several cases of CWD in my county of Wyoming. I'm just wondering now if I would be setting up a situation where the disease would spread.
I don't see how it could? There is an extreme over reaction to CWD in general. If that's the case would have to get rid of all natural scrapes, rubs, food plot entryways, soft mast, natural waterholes, acorns, etc. I have many, many clients in the "CWD Zone" here in WI that have used waterholes for 20 years...CWD has been here since 2002. They even had a scientific study in MO that showed baiting was very low risk on the priority scale.
Hope that helps ☺️
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Yes, it definitely helps ease my mind, thanks for responding. Fish and Game is always on the radio here saying don't feed deer because it spreads CWD.
how far back from a food source would you go (100-200 yards)?
Morning Mark! Close enough to represent more of a funnel of afternoon food source movement but far enough away from the food source that you can get in and out of an adjacent stand without spooking any deer on the food source. Typically within 100 yards...50-75 yards is about right, depending on stand location and access.
Jeff, what are your thoughts about water holes potentially aiding the transmission of CWD? I have used water holes effectively for 7 years. I'm in SW WI as well, in an area with CWD present. I want to do all I can to minimize CWD transmission. Thanks in advance for your reply.
First off the CWD sky has been falling here in SW since 2002...please don't believe the over-hype. But I do not believe there is a concern in any way. No more than natural scrapes, rubs, acorns, browsable shrubs, natural water sources, stump sprouted, at fields, food plots, roadside ditch planting, cedar trees in deer yards, etc. ☺️ Also tanks are much less likely to spread EHD than natural waterholes...as they do not create the drying and cracked mud around the water.
Again tho...CWD is highly, over-rated and iver-hyped. Likely why some states do not even test for it...
I read that CWD also spreads from sperm. I wouldn’t worry about it, most cases are from deer farm anyways, atleast it is here in Michigan.
Is it possible to have a food plot very near to your house
What affect does AG water run off have on deer if they’re drinking from a stagnant water source? My concern are the herbicides and pesticides.
How much is it for you to desighn a property
Do the Mature bucks use it often as well, or are they more shy because its different?
They use it often...mostly during late October, November and early Dec. All of our oldest bucks hit the water during that time at least 1/2 the waterholes depending on their territory.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks Jeff, I have been making improvements on my 80 in central MN based on your teachings. I follow you like a cult leader ;-) you haven't disappointed me yet. Thanks again!
Who has time to hit the unlike button as soon as you post a new video?
Socializing? Going to a bar??? I remember those days 🤷♂️
Something deer don't do ☺️
I have two ponds ,,, but turn green. Wouldn’t a water tub do same thing?
Add Clorox to get rid of the algae
It seems like the more of tha slimey algae type stuff that grows on top of tha water at my holes, Tha more they hit them.
Amen to that Shawn...for sure! Consistent theme...
Whitetail Habitat Solutions I guess that’s how they get tha name swamp donkey
I love learning what you have discovered and now share with us,
Bug infested mercky water, who would've believe it,
Do they have whitetail s in China🤔
Would you ever come look at my property and help me I live in mid missouri. Thanks
Jeff, my water hole tub is situated close to an 1/8 acre low spot that holds water often during the year, however; the deer will walk right through it to drink out of my water tub which I always keep full. Great presentation. Cris
Very cool experience Cris! I see that awesome. The water that lasts nearly 100% of the time attracts far more than the waterhole that attracts 50% of the time. Good thing too because the natural waterholes have a better chance of spreading EHD with the drying and cracked mud that surround them.
Thanks a lot ☺️ Was a cool spot to shoot a video...and stay outside!
Another great informative video Jeff! Love the concept and can’t wait to install one in the next few weeks.
Thanks PT! They are awesome...and easy to install 👍 "May" is semi-officially whitetail waterhole month ☺️
This video is making me thirsty.
Ha,me too!
Buyer beware if you have the slightest inclin that you may have black bear on the property I would rethink waterholes why you say cause I guarantee you the bear will find it & claim that area as there own screwing up whatever you were trying to create for deer trust me I’m speaking from experience now on the other hand if you hunt bear then I would suggest putting them in they will come
Crazy Paul...but your waterhole is the only one I have seen bears take over, in the entire country.
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Thanks Hunt!
Why do you think that is guess I must be special