Originally Posted By: westflgator
Originally Posted By: Matt Brock
Blessed, feeding is legal. Hunting by the aid of bait is not. Regardless, there's a heck of a lot of feeding going on, whether it's being hunted over or not.


One of the quickest ways to make the go nocturnal is to put corn out all over the place. I haven't had feeders out on my place here in FL in about 5 yrs. I had a guy that's hunting my land talk me into putting them back out this year, and we've seen less deer this year than I have ever seen on my place. Almost all of our pics are at night. My place is setup where we can slip in and out from the perimeter without putting much pressure on deer in the woods. All my stands can be accessed without out the deer in the plots seeing you
come or go. We have hunted my place very little since I'm in a club and do most of my hunting there, and my buddy works all the time and hasn't hunted that much. Last year I had all kinds of day pics of bucks, and we say does almost every time we went.


That's interesting, concerning corn and nighttime feeding. Also having a route into and out of a stand on a plot where you can sneak in and out without being detected. I hunted after school today, on the powerline food plot. I'm sure you know where that is since you've hunted the same club in Glendale. I had two does feeding on the plot and they were still there when it was time to get out and go home. Because there is no 'escape' route out of the stand, I tried to make a little bit of noise to run them off so I could get out without being seen. It didn't work. I finally just stepped out and they took off, lol. It would have been nice to be able to slip out the back door and not give myself up, but I didn't have a choice.