ORIGINAL: Dnk
Jason, donno what to tell you but when they are under pressure they will make the swamp home, if they get wouded they probably will hide there as well. I am guessing that they travel the edges as well. I would set up at the lower left corner on the other side of the fence row assuming you're wind doesn't give you away. The prevailing wind is ususally from the NW. How is your aerial photo oriented? Where is the food? Their basic needs are food and water so you can use this for your primary assumptions of where to hunt.
I really try to say out of the deer's bed room for fear of them looking for another home. Its like goose hunting, if you shoot at the pond they sleep in they're gone in a few days.
Can or do you bait Jason?
Don, the pic is set with the top being north. On the east is the RR tracks and along the whole edge I could not find any trails coming out going to the RR tracks, the area is low and the tracks sit up really high so I assume the deer do not like crossing them. On the south is a field and you can see it in the pic, but there is only a few tracks in it and no real obvious trails either. Now on the ditch side is were the to major trails come out with the one in the bottom corner being the main one with the most use. Directly to the west is a nice tree line and I think that is where the deer are heading to when they use that trail. But the whole west side of the ditch is full of deer tracks between the two entry trails, The feild beside the ditch is a potato field and when I first seen the potatos I thought jackpot! but looked and looked with out finding a potato that looked like it had been chewed on. The feild is full of small potatos that must of fell out of the harvester when they were collecting them. But here is the problem, the land owner owns the ditch, but no land past it at all. I have never been one to tresspass so I am not interested in hunting out side the ditch, but I couldn't because there is no cover at all past the ditch. I just would like to set up a blind or maybe a tripod but felt its to late and like you say if I set up in there bedroom they would be sure to notice. I have no problem with baiting. I have a stump feeder at my other spot by the game cam and it was hit hard in the spring but now that the crops are coming off they have all the food they want.
Reb, sorry for the wrong name, but marsh does sound more correct. Another thing that makes it worse is it's been raing alot around here lately so the little ground I can walk on is dissapearing. Thanks for the replys so far guys and any more thoughts Don?