Im in SC and a local member of this wonderful forum has already offered to let me walk his land with him so that I can see some deer sign and movement patterns IRL.
nope still sounds about right... I also tend to hear "catch any of dem deers?" a bit too often for my Yankee ears.
If you're near the chuck town area let me know. Nothing like having a few hunting buddies to BS with and figure new areas out together.
I am in Columbia but certainly not opposed to heading down country to walk some different woods or just shoot the ****.
This is the most straight forward explaination of this that I have seen.
A slough is a low area that can and will hold water for an extended period of time. Usually if someone around here says something about a slough it is in river bottom type area. Here in AR the eastern side of the state is predominantly skillet flat and has a lot of river bottom areas. Terrain features a lot of the time are measured in couple of feet like 1-3'. A slough or brake is shallow depression area on an otherwise flat landscape. The tree species will change as well as the underbrush species. You will find cypress, overcup oaks, persimmon, tupelo gum to be dominant tree species here in and along sloughs. A lot of times the woody species undergrowth will be heavy along the edges and that is generally referred to as a thicket. Sometimes the whole slough will be choked with brushy undergrowth that is a thicket for sure until it gets water in it and then it's a slough. Some sloughs will hold water all year if they have a little depth to them. these slough can and do hold gators. All sloughs will hold cottonmouths and you can run across the occasional timber rattler along or in them as well. Since they are typically at least moist and a lot of the time holding some water, they are obviously great places to find skeeters thick enough to make it hard to breathe and big enough to stand flat footed and breed a young hen turkey.
Well dang, helluva a response. ThanksA slough is a low area that can and will hold water for an extended period of time. Usually if someone around here says something about a slough it is in river bottom type area. Here in AR the eastern side of the state is predominantly skillet flat and has a lot of river bottom areas. Terrain features a lot of the time are measured in couple of feet like 1-3'. A slough or brake is shallow depression area on an otherwise flat landscape. The tree species will change as well as the underbrush species. You will find cypress, overcup oaks, persimmon, tupelo gum to be dominant tree species here in and along sloughs. A lot of times the woody species undergrowth will be heavy along the edges and that is generally referred to as a thicket. Sometimes the whole slough will be choked with brushy undergrowth that is a thicket for sure until it gets water in it and then it's a slough. Some sloughs will hold water all year if they have a little depth to them. these slough can and do hold gators. All sloughs will hold cottonmouths and you can run across the occasional timber rattler along or in them as well. Since they are typically at least moist and a lot of the time holding some water, they are obviously great places to find skeeters thick enough to make it hard to breathe and big enough to stand flat footed and breed a young hen turkey.
They are horrible places to hunt, you should avoid them at all cost.
The piece of public I am concentrating on at first is a large, mostly flat swampy flood plane bordering a slow moving river on the west, high bluffs of mixed forest on the east, a rails-to-trails elevated trail on the north, and more swampy flood plane on the south(protected land).A slough is a low area that can and will hold water for an extended period of time. Usually if someone around here says something about a slough it is in river bottom type area. Here in AR the eastern side of the state is predominantly skillet flat and has a lot of river bottom areas. Terrain features a lot of the time are measured in couple of feet like 1-3'. A slough or brake is shallow depression area on an otherwise flat landscape. The tree species will change as well as the underbrush species. You will find cypress, overcup oaks, persimmon, tupelo gum to be dominant tree species here in and along sloughs. A lot of times the woody species undergrowth will be heavy along the edges and that is generally referred to as a thicket. Sometimes the whole slough will be choked with brushy undergrowth that is a thicket for sure until it gets water in it and then it's a slough. Some sloughs will hold water all year if they have a little depth to them. these slough can and do hold gators. All sloughs will hold cottonmouths and you can run across the occasional timber rattler along or in them as well. Since they are typically at least moist and a lot of the time holding some water, they are obviously great places to find skeeters thick enough to make it hard to breathe and big enough to stand flat footed and breed a young hen turkey.
They are horrible places to hunt, you should avoid them at all cost.
That was def Bama....
